1. Bo Bice charted in 2005 at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 with a rendition of "Inside Your Heaven" from American Idol.
51 Facts About Bo Bice
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Bo Bice released the album The Real Thing after American Idol to minor success before being dropped by RCA Records.
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Bo Bice started his own record label Sugar Money and subsequently released two more albums, See the Light and 3.
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Bo Bice was born in Huntsville, Alabama to Nancy and Harold Elwin Bo Bice.
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Bo Bice's mother was a gospel singer as were his grandmother, great-grandmother, and aunts.
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Bo Bice's family continued to call him Bogart, but when Bice was in kindergarten he shortened it to "Bo" because he did not think Bogart was cool.
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Bo Bice's parents divorced when he was very young, and his mother remarried years later.
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Bo Bice grew up with his mother and step-father, Earle Downes, a Coca-Cola manager, step-sisters Jenny and Sharan Downes, and half-brother John Cohran.
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Bo Bice has two other half-siblings, Candace and Matthew, on his biological father's side.
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In 1990 when Bo Bice was 14 years old they moved to England, as part of his step-father's European assignment with Coca-Cola in London.
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Bo Bice attended London Central High School, a Department of Defense school primarily for children whose parents served in the military or worked at the US Embassy.
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Bo Bice formed his first band, Spinning Jenny, while living there.
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Bo Bice would have graduated in 1994, but in the fall of 1993, Bo Bice dropped out of high school just before turning 18 to move back to Alabama, where he earned his GED and attended classes at Calhoun Community College from November 1996 to May 1997.
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Bo Bice was a veteran of the nightclub circuit, releasing his first CD in 1995 with his band Purge.
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Bo Bice had recorded other albums prior to his stint on American Idol, which included Ex Gratia with his band Purge, and Recipe for Flavor with SugarMoney.
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In 2001, Bo Bice was charged with purchasing cocaine at a strip club.
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In 2003, Bo Bice was arrested for possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and public intoxication.
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Bo Bice avoided jail time by agreeing to enter a drug program.
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Bo Bice sang "In a Dream", an obscure song recorded by Badlands.
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Bo Bice lost the final, ending up runner-up to Carrie Underwood.
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Bo Bice's single replaced Carrie Underwood's version of the same song at number one.
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Bo Bice was invited to the Bonnaroo Music Festival by Trey Anastasio.
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Bo Bice sang a song with Willie Nelson at a Birmingham concert and was invited by Nelson to perform at Farm Aid.
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Bo Bice appeared on Carlos Santana's 2005 album All That I Am with the song "Brown Skin Girl".
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On June 15,2005, Bo Bice married long-time girlfriend Caroline Fisher in Helena, Alabama.
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Bo Bice had met her when he was working as a guitar store manager, and frequented the Ragtime Cafe in Hoover, Alabama where she was working her way through college as a waitress.
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On July 31,2005, Bo Bice broke his foot while performing in concert in Manchester, New Hampshire but carried on with the tour.
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Bo Bice was sidelined from the tour for several shows.
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On October 7,2005, Bo Bice introduced his own band, SugarMoney, in Mobile, Alabama at Bayfest.
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Bo Bice performed two concerts the following week, including a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, but was back in the hospital the next day with surgery complications.
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Jim Croce's family awarded Bo Bice the "Jim Croce 20th Annual Music Award" because the Croce family had been greatly moved by Bo Bice's performance of Croce's song "Time in a Bottle" while he was a contestant on American Idol.
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On December 18, Bo Bice started coughing up blood while rehearsing for a performance on the 2005 Radio Music Awards, and had to miss the show.
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In February 2006, Bo Bice kicked off a radio promo tour.
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In March 2006, Bo Bice sang on the American Idol Top 16 Results Show.
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On September 12,2006, Bo Bice released a cover of The Chambers Brothers 1968 smash hit, "Time Has Come Today", which was the theme song for a new Monopoly commercial.
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On October 5,2006, Bo Bice underwent emergency surgery in Nashville, Tennessee to correct his recurring intestinal problem.
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The day after that surgery, a complication occurred and Bo Bice had to undergo another surgery.
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Bo Bice made several promotional appearances in connection with the releases.
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Bo Bice was presented with a gold record for The Real Thing not long after RCA dropped Bo Bice from its roster.
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The Grassroots Coalition to Hear More Bo started the online Petition to Hear More Bo, which collected over 5,300 signatures before it was closed February 21,2007, after word broke that Bo Bice was no longer with RCA.
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Bo Bice spent the next few months planning, writing, and recording music for his new album, See the Light.
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Bo Bice introduced many of his newly written songs on a short acoustic tour which began in May 2007 and ended a few weeks later with his hospitalization for flu and bronchitis.
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In October 2007, Bo Bice made an appearance on the TV show American Chopper: The Series in an episode which featured a custom-built Peavey Bike with a built-in guitar, microphone, and amp.
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Bo Bice had made appearances in Peavey Electronics Corporation's after school programs during which Peavey donated instruments to schools.
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In February 2008, Bo Bice traveled to Kuwait and Afghanistan to perform for US troops deployed in the region, and to thank them for their service.
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Bo Bice simultaneously spent a few weeks participating in a special tour called It Was Forty Years Ago Today with Todd Rundgren, Denny Laine, Lou Gramm, and Christopher Cross.
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Bo Bice sang two tracks on the Brothers of the Southland CD, a compilation spearheaded by The Marshall Tucker Band's George McCorkle who had died from cancer just days prior to the recording sessions.
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Bo Bice was honored with the prestigious Lifetime Presidential Volunteer Service Award for volunteering more than 4,000 hours of his time for worthy causes, such as Habitat for Humanity, Katrina assistance, muscular dystrophy, organ transplants, two concert tours for the military troops in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan, Safe House, and many others.
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Bo Bice started 2010 with an acoustic tour to introduce some newly written songs that he was recording for his upcoming album.
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Bo Bice was the first celebrity contestant to win the grand prize by correctly singing the lyrics to all the songs in his round.
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In 2013, Bo Bice sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the NASCAR Feed the Children 300 in Sparta, Kentucky.