Most 4-year-olds have a favorite spot in the house. Carrie Underwood’s oldest son had a favorite spot in every arena in the country.
Carrie, the Oklahoma-born singer who won “American Idol” and became one of country music’s biggest names, spent 2019 headlining her Cry Pretty Tour 360. She didn’t leave her family at home. Her husband, retired NHL player Mike Fisher, came along, and so did their two boys. Isaiah was 4. His little brother Jacob, who the family calls Jake, was just 8 months old.
Carrie had already told People that traveling with her husband and kids was a “big awesome mess.” Anyone who has packed a car for a weekend with a toddler and a baby can only imagine doing it city after city.
To get a feel for the size of the shows those boys were growing up around, take a look at Carrie’s own video from that 2019 tour.
A look at Carrie’s 2019 Cry Pretty tour
On Oct. 3, 2019, Carrie sat down with Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show.” It was her first time on his show, and the talk turned to the boys and life on the road.
“They love it. Well, I mean, Jake would be fine no matter where we were.”
Isaiah was another story. He had places to go and people to see. And he had wheels.
“He’s got his little scooter he rides around the venues in. He’s such a people guy. So he’s living the dream.”
So who were all those people? Backstage at a big arena tour there’s a whole crew, and they all have to eat. Isaiah found his way to the room where everybody gathers for meals, and he made it his own. That’s when somebody on the tour gave him an official-sounding title.
He became “the Mayor of Catering.”
Carrie told Colbert, “Somebody recently called [Isaiah] ‘The Mayor of Catering’ because he’s just like, ‘Hi, everybody!’ and loves seeing everyone.”
She told the same story a couple of weeks later to Cody Alan for iHeart, and she remembered his greeting a little louder that time. “Someone recently called him the ‘Mayor of Catering.’ He is always like, ‘What’s up everybody?’ all the time.”
Every good mayor misses his town when he’s away. At one point the family sent Isaiah home for about a week, and Carrie told Cody Alan how that went.
“But, Isaiah, we had him go back home for about a week so he could go to school and be around his friends, and he was like, ‘Can I go back on tour?'”
He wanted his job back.
“He loves seeing everybody. Everybody loves seeing him,” Carrie said. “He’s always on his little scooter going around the arenas.”
And the road stayed in his blood. A few years later, on another tour, Carrie was still talking about how Isaiah runs the show.
Years later, Carrie on Isaiah running the show on tour
Isaiah is about 11 now, and his scooter days are probably behind him. But somewhere out there is a tour crew that still remembers the little guy who rolled into catering every day to say hello to the whole room.