Chris Stapleton
Chris Stapleton
Christopher Alvin "Chris" Stapletonis an American country and bluegrass musician and songwriter. He is an established songwriter with six number-one songs including the five-week number-one "Never Wanted Nothing More" recorded by Kenny Chesney, "Love's Gonna Make It Alright" recorded by George Strait, and "Come Back Song" recorded by Darius Rucker. As a songwriter, over 150 of Stapleton's songs have appeared on albums by such artists as Adele, Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and Dierks Bentley. He has co-written with...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth15 April 1978
CountryUnited States of America
Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.
As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.
I've always been in touring bands in some capacity.
My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.
Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there.
I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
I always just try to write the best songs that I can at any given time, and sometimes those songs are for me, and sometimes they're for other people. And that's to be evaluated after the fact.
I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'
I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.
I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.
I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine.