Brad Paisley

Brad Paisley个人资料： 乡村歌手Brad Paisley于1972年10月28日出生在美国西弗吉尼亚州的Glen Dale，在他8岁的时候收到了祖父送给他的一把吉他，这成了他走进乡村音乐的第一步，9岁的时候，他第一次在公众面前表演，那是在一座教堂里，他的吉他和演唱天分也第一次被人们所了解。13岁的时候他开始自己创作歌曲，并且和自己的吉他恩师Clarence "Hank" Goddard一起组建了的乐队the C-Notes，同时还邀请了Clarence "Hank" Goddard的两个老朋友加入。三个长者和一个孩子的组合很快给人们留下了印象，他们开始被邀请在当地一个著名的广播节目中表演。在这个星期六晚上播出的广播节目中，Brad Paisley淋漓尽致的展示了自己的才干。这使他成为了广播节目的固定表演者，而他也开始有机会在节目中与许多著名的音乐人合作，比如the Judds，Roy Clark，和Little Jimmy Dickens等。在纳什维尔Belmont大学的几年成为了Paisley音乐生涯最关键的一段时间，与美国作曲家、作者与出版者协会（ASCAP）的接触，使他不久就得到了百代（EMI Music）唱片公司的工作。1999年Brad Paisley签约Arista唱片公司后发行了第一张个人专辑《Who Needs Pictures》，这张风格多样的专辑中诞生了两首冠军单曲《He Didn't Have to Be》和《We Danced》，也获得了评论界的认可。Paisley也获得了格莱美最佳新人奖的提名，外形英俊的他拥有大量女性歌迷，在2001年还被媒体评选为 “2001年最性感的男人之一”。Contemporary country singer/songwriter Brad Paisley was born October 28, 1972, in Glen Dale, WV; given his first guitar at age eight, he delivered his first public performance at church two years later. With his 50-something guitar teacher Clarence "Hank" Goddard and two of the older man's seasoned musician buddies, the teenaged Paisley formed his first band, the C-Notes, and at age 12 began writing his own material. After performing in front of the local Rotary Club, he was invited to appear on Wheeling station WWVA's famed Saturday night broadcast Jamboree USA. Paisley's debut was so well received that he was invited to join the program full-time, and in the years to follow he opened for the likes of the Judds, Roy Clark, and Little Jimmy Dickens. He later attended Nashville's Belmont University, serving an internship with ASCAP; the contacts Paisley made there helped him land a songwriting deal with EMI, and he also appeared on countless demos. Signing to Arista, he issued his debut solo album, Who Needs Pictures, in 1999. The record produced two chart-topping singles in "He Didn't Have to Be," an ode to loving stepfathers, and "We Danced" and also earned generally positive reviews for its diversity of country styles. In the meantime, Paisley recorded a duet with Chely Wright, "Hard to Be a Husband, Hard to Be a Wife," for the Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry compilation; the two later collaborated on several songs for Wright's Never Love You Enough album. The sequel to Paisley's debut, Part II, was released in 2001 and promptly returned him to the Top Five with "Two People Fell in Love." "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" gave Paisley his third chart-topper, and "Wrapped Around" fell one spot short of becoming his fourth. "I Wish You'd Stay" became the fourth Top Ten hit from the record in early 2003. At the beginning of August 2005, Paisley put together a short "director's commentary" preview of his next album for his fan base to download. The full album, Time Well Wasted, appeared two weeks later and narrowly missed the top of the album charts, though it did hit number one on the country charts. In 2006 Brad Paisley Christmas, a collection of both originals and covers, came out, followed by 5th Gear in 2007.