Chris Stapleton
Chris Stapleton was born in Lexington, Kentucky, United States on April 15th, 1978 and is the Songwriter. At the age of 46, Chris Stapleton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Music career
Stapleton moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2001, to pursue a music career. He signed with Sea Gayle Music, a publishing house that he received shortly after moving to Nashville. He was a writer.
In 2007, he became the frontman for the SteelDrivers, a bluegrass band. They had two hit records before Stapleton left in 2010; each had their top ranking on the bluegrass chart before being ranked number two on the bluegrass chart.
The Jompson Brothers, Stapleton's hometown rock band, formed in 2010. Stapleton on vocals, Greg McKee on guitar, J.T., and J.T. Cure on bass and Bard McNamee on drums. They toured regionally until 2013, and Zac Brown Band opened their Zac Brown Band at one time. In November 2010, the band released a self-titled album.
In 2013, Stapleton joined Mercury Nashville, a Universal Music Group Nashville affiliate, as a solo artist. "What Are You Listening To?" is his first single. "I was released in October 2013, but it didn't do as well as expected." The single was part of a collection that was never released but later revealed. To the WSM-AM show, "All Nighter Comin'," Stapleton created the theme, "All Nighter Comin," Marcia Campbell, an American radio show with a large trucker following. Vince Gill and Al Anderson co-wrote the album, with Gill on vocals. Stapleton's songs have been included in numerous feature films, including Valentine's Day, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, and Hell or High Water.
In 2013, Stapleton and his partner Morgane performed "Amanda" live at the Grand Ole Opry. In November 2015, the two groups appeared at an NPR Tiny Desk Concert.
Stapleton performed with Lady A, who performed Stapleton's "Drink a Beer," which Luke Bryan performed in honor of Bryan, who was unable to attend the ceremony due to his family's death. During Bryan's 2013 CMA Awards performance of the same song, Stapleton had previously performed it.
Traveller, Stapleton's first solo album, was released on May 5, 2015. Stapleton co-produced the album with producer Dave Cobb, and was shot in Nashville's RCA Studio A. He plays guitar and sings with a live band made up of bass player J.T. on the album. Cure (from the Jompson Brothers), pedal steel player Robby Turner, drummer Derek Mixon, Mickey Raphael on harmonica, and wife Morgane Stapleton's singing harmony. Stapleton emphasized the importance of the band's formation and promotion of the album, saying that the acoustic guitar's participation in the recording process was crucial to the record's success.
Stapleton claimed he created the title track, "Traveller," while driving through New Mexico on their way back to Nashville in a 1979 Jeep that she bought for him after his father died in 2013, which the family had flown to Phoenix, Arizona, to take possession of. His wife aided him in navigating through 15 years of songs to choose nine songs to start recording with.
Stapleton received three awards at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards: Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, and New Artist of the Year. Stapleton performed with Justin Timberlake's version of "Tennessee Whiskey" and Timberlake's "Drink You Away" at the CMA Awards. Considered a career-defining moment for music publications, the artist's appearance and his successes that night elevated him to national prominence. During a live appearance at the annual CMT Artists of the Year show in December 2015, Stapleton received the 2015 CMT Artist of the Year Breakout Award. The traveller was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and the categories Best Country Album and Best Country Solo Performance were selected. It also received the Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year. As of July 2017, the top-selling country album of 2016, it has sold a total of 2 million copies internationally.
Stapleton and his partner Morgane completed the track "You Are My Sunshine" in 2016 for producer Dave Cobb's compilation album project, Southern Family. On Owen's album American Love, he collaborated with Jake Owen on the track "If He Ain't Gonna Love You." Stapleton, Andrew Combs, Kacey Musgraves, and headliner Eric Church appeared on the main stage at the 2016 Country to Country festival in Europe. On the Saturday Night Live episode, alongside host Adam Driver, Stapleton appeared as the musical guest. From Traveller, he performed "Parachute" and "Nobody to Blame" from Traveller.
At the Country Radio Hall of Fame's Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, Stapleton performed "Either Way" a song he wrote with Kendall Marvel and Tim James in January 2016. Call Me Crazy was previously recorded by Lee Ann Womack on her 2008 album, Call Me Crazy. The track will be included on his second studio album From A Room: Volume 1. Volume 1 was released on May 5, 2017, where it was recorded during the winter of 2016–17. He began on his All-American Road Show Tour in the same month as the previous one. Volume 1 was named gold in the United States for his second CMA for Album of the Year and the year's best-selling country album. From A Room: Volume 2 was released on December 1, 2017. Both albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 charts.
On January 27, 2018, Stapleton appeared on Saturday Night Live for the second time, where he performed songs from From a Room: Volume 2 with Sturgill Simpson. "Broken Halos" came off from a Room in March: Volume 1 of the Country Airplay chart reached the top of the charts. At the 52nd CMAs, he was named Song and Single of the Year, while Male Vocalist of the Year was named for the fourth time.
Stapleton's new album, "Starting Over," was released on August 28, 2020, a song he performed on tour. It's the lead single from his album of the same name and it's the first single since 2018's "Millionaire." On September 25, 2020, he unveiled "Cold" for his second single to promote the project. For the fourth time at the 2021 Country Music Association Awards, he was named Male Vocalist of the Year and Male Artist of the Year for the third time.
Stapleton co-wrote three songs for Justin Timberlake's studio album Man of the Woods (2018), including their collaboration "Say Something," which debuted on the top ten charts on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Stapleton also produced a cover of "I Want Love" for Restoration: Reimagining Elton John and Bernie Taupin's Songs in the same year.
Stapleton appeared in "The Long Night," the third episode of HBO's Game of Thrones' eighth season, on April 28, 2019.
John Mayer invited Stapleton onstage for a song they had both written the day before, titled "I Just Remembered That I Didn't Care" which has yet to be released in a studio. He remained onstage after a Mayer's "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room" performance.
Stapleton recorded and wrote songs with Mike Campbell, formerly the guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers who is now working with his solo project the Dirty Knobs, over the course of 2019 and 2020. Stapleton's album Starting Over was also featured on the Dirty Knobs' album, Wreckless Abandon, in addition to Campbell and Benmont Tench's appearance on Stapleton's album Beginning Over.
Stapleton was confirmed to appear on Taylor Swift's second re-recorded album, Red (Taylor's Version) on the track "I Bet You Think About Me" on August 5, 2021. Stapleton contributed a cover of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" to the Metallica Blacklist, which was released in September 2021. On Adele's 30th album, he appears as a credit vocalist on a different version of "Easy on Me."
Stapleton collaborated with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello on Morello's 2021 album "The War Inside" on his 2021 album, The Atlas Underground Fire, in both writing and performance.