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Dierks Bentley - 100% match to Chris Young

20 November 1975, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. This country singer-songwriter grew up in Arizona but relocated to the home of country music, Nashville, Tennessee, like countless budding performers before him. He paid his dues playing small venues and bars on Lower Broadway, while holding down a day job with TNN (The Nashville Network). A publishing contract was finally secured wit Read more

Jason Aldean - 95% match to Chris Young

Jason Aldine, 28 February 1977, Macon, Georgia, USA. This country singer-songwriter was only in his early teens when he began performing at local talent shows, and after forming a band he graduated to the bar circuit. After leaving high school he adopted his new stage name and began working the eastern seaboard with his band. In 1998 he signed a songwriting contract with War Read more

Brooks & Dunn - 89% match to Chris Young

This hugely successful country duo comprises Kix Brooks (Leon Eric Brooks, 12 May 1955, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA) and Ronnie Gene Dunn (b. 1 June 1953, Coleman, Texas, USA). As an adolescent, Brooks lived close to Johnny Horton and sang with Horton’s daughter. He moved to Nashville and found success as a songwriter, co-writing a US country number 1 by John Conlee (&# Read more

Josh Turner - 88% match to Chris Young

George Strait - 82% match to Chris Young

18 May 1952, Poteet, Texas, USA. Country superstar George Strait is a throwback to the 50s honky-tonk sound of country music. He uses twin fiddles and steel guitar and his strong, warm delivery is similar to that of his idols Merle Haggard and Lefty Frizzell. He has made no secret of his influences, recording a fine tribute to Frizzell, ‘Lefty’s Gone’.

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Craig Morgan - 80% match to Chris Young

17 July 1965, Kingston Springs, Tennessee, USA. Country singer-songwriter Morgan began his career at the start of the new millennium, but his rise to the upper echelons of the charts was a gradual process and took in an abortive period with a major label. Raised in Nashville in the heart of country music land, Morgan nurtured dreams of becoming a country singer from an early Read more

Trace Adkins - 76% match to Chris Young

13 January 1962, Sarepta, Louisiana, USA. Before entering the entertainment world and the Nashville music community, Trace Adkins was employed as an oil-rigger. What some critics have labelled his ‘blue-collar authenticity’ was first conveyed to audiences on the honky-tonk circuit on his evenings off work. This eventually led him to Nashville and a meeting with Sco Read more

Brad Paisley - 75% match to Chris Young

28 October 1972, Glen Dale, West Virginia, USA. Singer-songwriter Paisley is widely acknowledged by the US country scene as one of his generation’s leading new traditionalists. His talent was apparent from an early age. Before becoming a teenager Paisley was singing in his local church, and playing alongside his guitar teacher Clarence ‘Hank’ Goddard in the fo Read more

Chris Cagle - 75% match to Chris Young

Christian Cagle, 10 November 1968, DeRidder, Louisiana, USA. This no-frills country rock artist grew up in Houston, Texas. Cagle learned to play guitar and piano as a youngster and dropped out of college at the age of 19 to pursue a musical career. He relocated to Nashville in the mid-90s where he struggled to make an impact before placing some songs with the up-and-coming p Read more

Rodney Atkins - 75% match to Chris Young

28 March 1969, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. This country singer-songwriter negotiated a long and rocky path to the top of the mountain, battling childhood illness and recording problems before breaking through in the early 00s. Raised in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, Atkins had already moved through a series of foster parents and suffered a string of serious illnesses before begi Read more

Kenny Chesney - 74% match to Chris Young

Kenneth Arnold Chesney, 26 March 1968, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. A handsome country singer-songwriter specializing in heartfelt ballads, Chesney has earned a reputation as a genial and hard-working traditional artist. In 1994, he made his debut for Capricorn Records with a self-titled collection that established him as a competent writer, though one lacking the unique quali Read more

Clay Walker - 70% match to Chris Young

Ernest Clayton Walker, 19 August 1969, Beaumont, Texas, USA. From the same city and similar strand of country music as Tracy Byrd and Mark Chesnutt, the US country singer Walker owes much of his vocal style to George Strait. He was taught guitar by his father at a young age and started to write songs as soon as he knew enough chords. Walker was no overnight success, and tour Read more

Buddy Jewell - 66% match to Chris Young

2 April 1961, Lepanto, Arkansas, USA. Country artist Jewell emerged from years of obscurity in 2003 when he won the inaugural final of the reality television show Nashville Star. Prior to his sudden rise to fame, Jewell had spent his early twenties in an unsuccessful band called White Oak. By the mid-90s he was installed in Nashville, the capital of country music, and plying Read more

Trent Tomlinson - 63% match to Chris Young

Emerson Drive - 55% match to Chris Young

Country pop outfit formed in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada by school friends Brad Mates (Bradley Mates, 21 July 1978, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada; vocals/guitar), Pat Allingham (b. 9 July 1978, Ill-A-La-Cross, Saskatchewan, Canada; fiddle), and Chris Hartman (b. 2 January 1978, Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada; keyboards). Originally called 12 Gauge, the trio added Jeff Read more