46 Facts About Chris Stapleton

Christopher Alvin Stapleton was born on April 15,1978 and is an American country singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Chris Stapleton has been credited on albums for artists including Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, and Taylor Swift.

Chris Stapleton has co-written with Vince Gill, Peter Frampton, Sheryl Crow, and Ed Sheeran, among others.

Chris Stapleton's 2015 cover of the song "Tennessee Whiskey" received diamond certification by the RIAA.

Chris Stapleton has been recognized with awards including eleven Grammy Awards, eleven Academy of Country Music Awards, and fifteen Country Music Association Awards.

Chris Stapleton was named the ACM's Artist-Songwriter of the Decade in September 2019.

Chris Stapleton has an older brother, Herbert Joseph III and younger sister, Melanie Brooke.

Chris Stapleton grew up in the small town of Staffordsville, Kentucky, right outside of Paintsville, which is between Staffordsville and Paintsville Lake, a reservoir.

In 1996, Chris Stapleton moved to Nashville to study biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University.

Chris Stapleton switched to business school, but when he discovered that songwriting could be a career after meeting a salaried songwriter he took to songwriting instead.

Chris Stapleton signed with publishing house Sea Gayle Music shortly after moving to Nashville and earned a reputation as a versatile and prolific songwriter.

In 2013, Chris Stapleton signed to Mercury Nashville, a division of Universal Music Group Nashville, as a solo artist.

Chris Stapleton cowrote the theme "All-Nighter Comin'" to the WSM-AM show The WSM All Nighter with Marcia Campbell, an American radio show with a large trucker following.

Chris Stapleton co-wrote the song with Vince Gill and Al Anderson and Gill featured on vocals on the track.

Songs written by Chris Stapleton have been included in the soundtracks of several feature films, including Valentine's Day, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, and Hell or High Water.

At the 2014 CMT Artist of the Year event, Chris Stapleton performed with Lady Antebellum, who played Chris Stapleton's song, "Drink a Beer", which Luke Bryan had recorded, in honor of Bryan who was unable to attend the ceremony.

Chris Stapleton had previously sung it during Bryan's 2013 CMA Awards performance of the same song.

Chris Stapleton emphasized the importance of the band lineup that came together during the making and promotion of the record.

Chris Stapleton said his familiarity with Cure and Mixon, plus Cobb's producing, which included contributing acoustic guitar, had added to the richness of making the record.

Chris Stapleton composed the title track "Traveller" as he and his wife were driving through New Mexico on their way back to Nashville in a 1979 Jeep his wife had bought him, which they had flown to Phoenix, to acquire.

Chris Stapleton's wife helped him to sift through 15 years of songs to pick nine to record.

Chris Stapleton won three awards at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards: Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, and New Artist of the Year.

In December 2015, Chris Stapleton received the 2015 CMT Artists of the Year Breakout award during a live performance at the annual CMT Artists of the Year show.

Chris Stapleton collaborated with Jake Owen on the song "If He Ain't Gonna Love You" on Owen's album American Love.

Chris Stapleton performed on the main stage at the 2016 Country to Country festival in Europe along with Andrew Combs, Kacey Musgraves and headliner Eric Church.

Chris Stapleton was the musical guest on the Saturday Night Live episode which aired January 16,2016, alongside host Adam Driver.

Chris Stapleton performed "Parachute" and "Nobody to Blame" from Traveller.

In January 2016, Chris Stapleton performed "Either Way", a song he had written with Kendall Marvel and Tim James, at the Country Radio Hall of Fame's Country Radio Seminar in Nashville.

Chris Stapleton was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live for a second time on January 27,2018, where he performed songs from From A Room: Volume 2 with Sturgill Simpson.

Chris Stapleton won Male Vocalist of the Year for a fourth time.

Chris Stapleton released a second single, "Cold", on September 25,2020.

Chris Stapleton was Male Vocalist of the Year for the fourth time at the 2021 Country Music Association Awards, and Male Artist of the Year for the third time at the 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards, where he performed "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" with Patty Loveless.

Chris Stapleton co-wrote three songs for Justin Timberlake's studio album Man of the Woods, including their collaboration "Say Something", which reached the top ten list on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Campbell and fellow Heartbreaker Benmont Tench played on Chris Stapleton's album Starting Over, and Chris Stapleton featured on the Dirty Knobs' album Wreckless Abandon.

Chris Stapleton contributed a cover of the Metallica song "Nothing Else Matters" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, released in September 2021.

Chris Stapleton was credited as a vocalist on Adele's album 30, appearing on an alternative version of "Easy on Me".

Chris Stapleton collaborated with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello in the writing and performance of the track "The War Inside" on Morello's 2021 album The Atlas Underground Fire.

On February 12,2023, at Super Bowl LVII, Chris Stapleton sang the United States' national anthem at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

Chris Stapleton was joined by Cindy Blackman Santana and Snoop Dogg in recording a cover of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" as the 2023 opening theme song for Monday Night Football.

Chris Stapleton's first solo album, Traveller, was an old-school country, Southern rock and bluegrass record; his second, From A Room: Volume 1, focused on country, blues and roots rock.

Chris Stapleton played acoustic guitar and electric guitar on both albums.

Chris Stapleton is a soul singer with a tenor vocal range.

Chris Stapleton has cited Charles, Otis Redding, and Freddie King as some of his musical influences, along with Kentucky-based country artists, Keith Whitley, Dwight Yoakam and Patty Loveless.

Chris Stapleton and his wife have five children: a son born in 2009, a daughter born in 2010, twin sons born in 2018, and a son born in 2019.

Chris Stapleton is the recipient of ten Grammy Awards, ten Academy of Country Music Awards, fourteen Country Music Association Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, two iHeartRadio Music Awards, among others.

In 2019, Chris Stapleton was recognized by the Academy of Country Music as the inaugural ACM artist-songwriter of the decade.