Eric Church’s biography

Kenneth Eric Church also known as Eric Church is one of country music’s rising superstars today. Born on May 3, 1977 in Granite Falls New Carolina, Church’s talent was discovered as early as when he was four years old. His first performance was at a local restaurant as he stands in his first stage- a table and sings to the waitress with the song entitled “Elvira” the crowd adored him then. At the age of 13, he bought himself a guitar and like some teenagers that time, he learned to play guitar by himself. As his talent blooms, he also started to write songs. In his high school years, he formed a band composed of his brother, roommate and acquaintance (a guitarist). Their band name was “the mountain boys”. They immediately played gigs in their local bar every night. Eventually, they played their gigs in some restaurants, bars and gatherings located in North Carolina. They had also played some original songs that Church composed. Church had planned to go to Nashville and focus in his dream of having a career in country music but his father offered him a deal that if he finishes college, he’ll pay for the first 6 months stay in Nashville.

Eric Church sees this as a good enough offer so he agreed. Finally, he graduated high school and attended Appalachian State University in college where he got his degree in Marketing. Right away he transferred to Nashville and was scared and clueless at first. But before leaving Carolina, Church and his father had made contacts in Nashville and this got him signing a publishing deal with Sony Tree Company as a songwriter. He had also done about 70 demos for them. He was then introduced to a famous producer named Jay Joyce by Arthur Buenahora Jr. from Sony Tree Company. In 2006, Eric Church signed a contract with Capitol Records and produced his first album “Sinners like Me” with the first single from the album entitled “How ‘bout you” which immediately ranked number 14 in the billboard country chart. His other singles “Two pink lines” and “guys like me” also placed in the top 20 country charts. In March 24, 2009, Church released his second album “Carolina” which bought the single “Love your love the most” and reached in the top 10 of the country charts. His next single “Hell on the heart” was also placed in the top 10 country songs of 2010. Last July 26, 2011 Eric Church released his third album “Chief” which housed some top country songs (2011) like “Springsteen” and “Drink in my hand”.