Charles Burgess Kelley was born on September 11,1981 and is an American singer, songwriter and lead singer and founding member of the country music trio Lady A, which was formed in 2006 and are signed to Big Machine Records.
13 Facts About Charles Kelley
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Charles Kelley began his musical career at the age of 11.
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Charles Kelley's older brother, Josh Kelley, is a musician and singer.
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In middle school, Charles Kelley met Dave Haywood and, at the age of 14, they wrote their first song.
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Charles Kelley attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, where he was a member of the Nu Zeta chapter of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
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Charles Kelley graduated in 2004 with a degree in finance.
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Charles Kelley made the move after his brother Josh, who was a pop musician at the time, bought a house in Nashville and convinced him to come live there so they could write songs together.
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Charles Kelley revealed on GMA that he started working on his solo project six months prior to his single's release.
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In 2006, prior to forming the band, Charles Kelley released a solo album called 2 to 9's.
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That same year, the two wrote "Love Song" with Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, which Lambert would later record for her third studio album, Revolution, and Charles Kelley would sing background on.
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Charles Kelley had the lyrics, "All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise," from the Beatles song, "Blackbird", tattooed on his right forearm in early 2009.
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In 2010, Charles Kelley got a second tattoo, a design of the "flower of life", on his upper left arm.
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On December 23,2022, Charles Kelley released "As Far As You Could", a song about his struggles with alcohol.