If you’ve seen the cool music video for Chris Young‘s newest single, “Voices,” what you may not know is that it features a whole bunch of Chris’ real-life family. The storyline of the video has Chris coming “home” for a special family occasion, so the casting couldn’t have been better. But Chris tells us that his camera-shy mom was a bit reluctant to be in the video, which has led to a little playful teasing. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Chris says that having his dad in the video was especially meaningful because, while his dad is doing “really well now,” it wasn’t long ago that he was undergoing treatment for lung cancer. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)
• If you haven’t seen the “Voices” video yet, you can check it out right now at CMT.com!
• The single “Voices” follows Chris’ back-to-back number-one hits, “The Man I Want to Be” and “Gettin’ You Home,” all from his latest album, also called The Man I Want to Be. 
• SPECIAL CHRIS EVENT: This Tuesday, you can enjoy a special online event, when Chris delivers his first-ever live streamed acoustic performance! Originating from inside the Nashville headquarters of his record label, RCA, the streaming concert will be your online ticket as Chris performs in front of an invitation-only audience of music industry VIPs. Be sure to log on to watch the live stream at hearsomethingcountry.com/chrisyoungevent, on Tuesday, August 10th, at 6:30pm, ET!  

  Chris Young says that his mom was a bit shy about appearing in his video for “Voices.” (:25)
“Oh, no, Mom was very shy. My mom is in that video a lot, and she was like, ‘Hey, whatever you do, just kind of use me a little bit, and then I’ll be out.’ She didn’t want any part of bein’, like, a big set piece in the video. And of course, she’s, like, one of the only people that you see twice. So, I’ve laughed at her a little bit about that. She’s like, ‘I didn’t even want to be in the video.’ So — and not in a bad way, she’s just one of those people, she’s like, if there’s a camera nearby, she’s like, ‘I’ll take the picture.’ She’s always that person, so it was kind of cool.”

  Chris Young talks about his dad being in the music video for “Voices.” (:43)
“My dad — you know, first of all, it’s cool to have my dad in the video anyway, you know, with him goin’ through…he went through lung cancer and chemo for that and everything and is doin’ really well now, but you know, the fact that I got to use my dad in a video. I mean, you know, it’s kind of weird to say, but who knows if he — it was a flip of a coin kind of thing of whether he was gonna do really well or he’d still be sick and maybe not be able to be in my video, so I was glad to have him in there. And unless you know who my dad is, you can’t really pick him out, ’cause I’m walkin’ up at the very beginning, there’s my cousin — I guess technically my cousin-in-law, I don’t know (laughs) — I guess that’s what he is, and then my dad is sittin’ there under the car hood lookin’ at a car.”