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
I am honored that they would include me in the Cabinet as a member and contributor.
Our sound is a combination of a lot of influences,
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.
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.
Dave LaChapelle talked me into it, ... I thought it was going to be no big deal, probably not too many people would see it. Then I was having a party during the Daytona 500, and it was the first commercial on it. I told my wife, 'Honey, I think I'm in trouble.'
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.
Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go,
I turned to my wife and said, 'Honey, I'm in trouble.'
Cracked Rear View' was a phenomenon. You look at the records you consider creative of the '90s and 'Cracked Rear View' sold more than all of them. That's just one of those things. That's just something else. It won't happen again. Now we just want to make the records, have our fan base and go on tour whenever we feel like playing.
It's more relaxing after 10 years of thinking that we'd never get a record deal. And after doing as well as the first record did, we feel like we can make records whenever we want. That's the biggest change for us as a band.