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 turned to my wife and said, 'Honey, I'm in trouble.'
If one of our faces wasn't there, we'd probably quit.
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.
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'm hoping the backlash is over. We've been going through that for the past eight years.
On Valentine's day, I'm doing a show with an orchestra. We're doing a show with all standards for the Children's Hospital in Charleston.
Our sound is a combination of a lot of influences,
We love to play. We're good at what we do,
We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.
I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.
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 are grateful to our faithful fans and friends who helped us set a new donation record.
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.
You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.