1. Brad Douglas Paisley was born on October 28,1972 and is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
68 Facts About Brad Paisley
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Brad Paisley has collaborated with artists such as Alison Krauss, Keith Urban, Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood, and Alabama.
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Brad Douglas Paisley was born on October 28,1972, in Glen Dale, West Virginia.
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Brad Paisley is the only child of Douglas Edward "Doug" Paisley, who worked for the West Virginia Department of Transportation, and Sandra Jean "Sandy" Paisley, a teacher.
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Brad Paisley has stated that his love of country music stems from his maternal grandfather, Warren Jarvis, who gave him his first guitar, a Sears Danelectro Silvertone, and taught him how to play at eight years old.
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Brad Paisley had been taking lessons with local guitarist Clarence "Hank" Goddard.
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Brad Paisley would become the youngest person inducted into the Jamboree USA Hall of Fame.
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Brad Paisley graduated from John Marshall in Glen Dale, West Virginia, in 1991, and then studied for two years at West Liberty State College in West Liberty, West Virginia.
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Brad Paisley was awarded a fully paid ASCAP scholarship to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he majored in music business and received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Mike Curb School of Music Business in 1995.
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Brad Paisley interned at ASCAP, Atlantic Records, and the Fitzgerald-Hartley management firm.
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Brad Paisley met Chris DuBois in college, and he, too, would write songs for him.
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Later in 2000, Brad Paisley won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award and the Academy of Country Music's best new male vocalist trophy.
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Brad Paisley received his first Grammy Award nomination a year later for Best New Artist.
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On February 17,2001, Brad Paisley was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.
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Brad Paisley co-produced the former two tracks with her, in addition to playing guitar on them and featuring members of his road band, The Drama Kings; he sang backing vocals on "One Night in Las Vegas" and "Not as In Love".
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Brad Paisley released his third album, Mud on the Tires, following Who Needs Pictures and Part II.
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Brad Paisley contributed two original songs to the Disney Pixar's film Cars.
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At the 2006 Grammy Awards, Brad Paisley received four nominations: Best Country Album, Best Country Song, Best Country Instrumental and Best Country Vocal, Male.
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Brad Paisley was nominated for three 2008 Grammy Awards related to 5th Gear: Best Country Album, Best Country Collaboration, and Best Country Instrumental.
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In March 2008, Brad Paisley announced his next tour, The Brad Paisley Party, a 42-date tour sponsored by Hershey's.
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On November 12,2008, Brad Paisley won Male Vocalist of the Year and Music Video of the Year for "Waitin' on a Woman" during the CMAs.
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Brad Paisley announced on January 26,2009, that he would be embarking on a new tour named American Saturday Night, with Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne opening for most of the shows.
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On July 21,2009, Brad Paisley performed at the White House for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in celebration of country music.
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On November 11,2009, Brad Paisley co-hosted the CMA Awards for the second straight year.
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Brad Paisley performed "Welcome to the Future", and won both Male Vocalist of the Year and Musical Event of the Year for "Start a Band" with Keith Urban.
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On March 1,2010, Brad Paisley was the first musical performance with "American Saturday Night" for the second tenure of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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On March 5,2010, Brad Paisley slipped and fell performing his last song of the set, "Alcohol", at a concert at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, South Carolina, on the final date of the American Saturday Night Tour.
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On July 31,2010, Brad Paisley performed alongside Carrie Underwood at the inaugural Greenbrier Classic PGA Tour Event in Lewisburg, West Virginia.
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An estimated 60,000 people attended the outdoor event to watch Underwood and Brad Paisley perform in the pouring rain.
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Brad Paisley cohosted the 44th Annual CMA Awards on November 10,2010, where he was awarded the CMA's top award, Entertainer of the Year.
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In December 2010, Brad Paisley released "This Is Country Music" as the title track to his eighth studio album, released May 23,2011.
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On May 12,2011, Brad Paisley's website announced that he would release two songs on the soundtrack for the film Cars 2.
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Brad Paisley's website announced that he was a fan of Twain, prompting his collaboration on the project with Clint Eastwood, Jimmy Buffett, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, and others.
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On October 19,2011, Brad Paisley made a voice cameo as various background characters in the South Park episode "Bass to Mouth".
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On January 14,2012, Brad Paisley was a guest on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, during which he did a rendition of "Life's Railway to Heaven" by Charles Davis Tillman.
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Brad Paisley toured the country and made pit stops at local country music festivals.
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On September 20,2012, Brad Paisley released a new single, "Southern Comfort Zone".
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The album's third single, "I Can't Change the World", was released to country radio on August 19,2013: despite a moderately good debut, the single failed to reach the top 20 on country charts, peaking at number 22 on Country Airplay and becoming Brad Paisley's lowest-charting single to date.
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On June 12,2013, Brad Paisley announced on his Twitter page that he would join the Rolling Stones onstage during the band's concert in Philadelphia.
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Brad Paisley co-wrote the song with Kelley Lovelace and co-produced it with Luke Wooten.
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On May 24,2014, Brad Paisley traveled on Air Force One with President Barack Obama to visit US troops at Bagram Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan.
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Brad Paisley played a full concert for the troops stationed there.
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Brad Paisley released "Without a Fight", a duet with Demi Lovato, on May 13,2016.
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On November 11, Brad Paisley announced on Twitter that the title of the album would be Love and War, which was released in April 2017.
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In 2019, Brad Paisley was a guest judge on season 14 of America's Got Talent.
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In 2021, Brad Paisley was featured on Jimmie Allen's "Freedom Was a Highway", which reached number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart in February 2022, becoming Brad Paisley's twentieth number one single, and his first since "Perfect Storm" in January 2015.
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In February 2023, after being on Arista Nashville since the beginning of his career, Brad Paisley signed a new record deal with EMI Nashville.
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On June 24,2023, Brad Paisley released the second single of his upcoming album, titled "So Many Summers".
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In September 2024, Brad Paisley revealed he was postponing the Son of the Mountains album and is instead working on a different album; according to Billboard, the new album is expected to be released in early 2025.
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Brad Paisley co-wrote the book with author M B Roberts.
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Brad Paisley released his book Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me in 2011 under Howard Books Publishing.
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Brad Paisley co-wrote the book with author David Wild, a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine and an Emmy nominated TV writer and producer.
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Brad Paisley saw the movie while on a date with a different girl who later left him for his best friend; four years later, he went to see the sequel alone.
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Brad Paisley and Williams' first son, William Huckleberry, called "Huck", was born on February 22,2007, in Nashville.
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Brad Paisley is a member of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and a Noble of the AAONMS, known as Shriners.
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Brad Paisley was accompanied by his father, Doug Paisley, for the ceremony on October 28,2006, and has done a number of recordings supporting the virtues of Freemasonry and DeMolay International.
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Brad Paisley is a fan of the Cleveland Browns and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Brad Paisley sang the national anthem at Dodger Stadium before Game 2 of the 2017 World Series between the Dodgers and the Houston Astros, again before Game 3 of the 2018 World Series between the Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox, and again before Game 1 of the 2024 World Series between the Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
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Brad Paisley sang the national anthem before a Browns game during the 1999 season, and stated in an interview with ESPN his dream job would be to play football for them.
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Brad Paisley invited former Browns quarterback Brady Quinn to a concert at the Blossom Music Center in 2008.
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Brad Paisley is a fan of West Virginia athletics and has appeared as a celebrity guest picker on College GameDay.
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In late 2009, Variety announced that Brad Paisley was the executive producer of a new hour-long scripted drama series called Nashville that would air on The CW network.
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Brad Paisley's first guitar, a gift from his grandfather, was a Silvertone Danelectro 1451, which came with an "amp-in-case".
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Brad Paisley's next guitar, which he got at the age of 10 or 11, from his grandfather, was a Sekova copy of a Gibson ES-335, with a Fender Deluxe Reverb.
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Brad Paisley has used Audiotech Guitar Products ABY Selector's for controlling his wireless receiver units.
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Brad Paisley became a vocal advocate for Ukraine after Putin announced a "special military operation" in 2022, joining the United24 project as an ambassador for its "Rebuilding Ukraine" program.
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In March 2023 Brad Paisley announced that he would donate royalties from "Same Here" to rebuilding efforts.
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Brad Paisley released "The Medicine Will" in 2021 criticizing the pharmaceutical industry for its role in causing the United States opioid crisis.