Darius Rucker
Darius Rucker
Darius Carlos Ruckeris an American singer and songwriter. He first gained fame as the Lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning rock band, Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld and Dean Felber. The band has released five studio albums with him as a member, and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote the majority of the band's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth13 May 1966
CityCharleston, SC
CountryUnited States of America
When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.
You gotta love and learn and learn to live.
You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.
It definitely won't be a rock record, ... If I wanted to make a rock record, I'd just do one with Hootie.
I'm hoping the backlash is over. We've been going through that for the past eight years.
is always sold-out, and it's always a lot of fun. There's always something different.
Our sound is a combination of a lot of influences,
I'd work with Justin any time. I think he's a great artist. I think our voices would be perfect together, with my baritone and his tenor, we'd be awesome.
We realized instantly it was going to be like that. People wanted to compare it to what we'd d done before. But are we going to complain about selling 16 million records? I don't think so.
We wanted to have our own nice, small label that has respect in the industry. We're really looking forward to the ride with them.
We are grateful to our faithful fans and friends who helped us set a new donation record.
And the age difference -- you've got women in their late 50s and ... kids just going into the sixth grade. The people that are Hootie fans are Hootie fans. They love us, and we love playing for them. We definitely don't do this for any other reason.
I love it. I'd do it again any time, and I'm sure we'll do it for other records. It was awesome. We met cool people and got some really good songs out of it.