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 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.
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.'
It was fun. We both got a kick out of it.
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.
I turned to my wife and said, 'Honey, I'm in trouble.'
Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go,
It was such a blur. All we saw was that the shows were getting bigger. It's like people say, a lot of it is a timing thing. We came out at the right time.
We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York.
is always sold-out, and it's always a lot of fun. There's always something different.
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.