48 Facts About Chris Stapleton

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

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Chris Stapleton was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in Staffordsville, Kentucky.

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In 2001, Stapleton moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue an engineering degree from Vanderbilt University but dropped out to pursue his career in music.

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Subsequently, Chris Stapleton signed a contract with Sea Gayle Music to write and publish his music.

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Chris Stapleton's songs have appeared on many artists' albums including Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, and Taylor Swift.

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Chris Stapleton has co-written with several artists as well including Vince Gill, Peter Frampton, Sheryl Crow, and Ed Sheeran.

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Chris Stapleton released his fourth studio album Starting Over in 2020, for which he won his third Grammy for Best Country Album.

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Chris Stapleton has been recognized with several awards including eight Grammy Awards, 10 Academy of Country Music Awards, and 14 Country Music Association Awards.

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

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

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Chris Stapleton grew up in the small town of Staffordsville, Kentucky, which is located just outside of Paintsville, located between the city and the Paintsville Lake.

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Chris Stapleton graduated from Johnson Central High School where he played football and was his class Valedictorian.

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Chris Stapleton then attended Vanderbilt University, where he studied engineering, but dropped out after a year.

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In 2001, Chris Stapleton moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a music career.

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In 2010, Chris Stapleton founded a Southern rock band called the Jompson Brothers.

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

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Chris Stapleton cowrote the song with Vince Gill and Al Anderson, with Gill featured on vocals on the track.

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

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At the 2014 CMT Artist of the Year event, Chris Stapleton performed with Lady A, 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 due to a death in his family.

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

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Chris Stapleton emphasized the importance of the band lineup that came together during the making and promotion of the record, saying the familiarity he had with Cure and Mixon, plus Cobb's producing which included contributing acoustic guitar in the recording process, added to the richness of making the record.

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Chris Stapleton's wife helped him to sift through 15 years worth of songs to pick 9 songs to start recording with.

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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.

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At the CMA Awards, Chris Stapleton performed with Justin Timberlake his version of the song popularized as a David Allen Coe live-show staple, "Tennessee Whiskey" and Timberlake's "Drink You Away".

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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Chris Stapleton then released a second single, "Cold" on September 25,2020, to further promote the project.

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Chris Stapleton went on to win 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.

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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.

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

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Chris Stapleton appears as a credit vocalist on Adele album 30, appearing on an alternate version of "Easy on Me".

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

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On February 12,2023, at Super Bowl LVII, Chris Stapleton sang the National Anthem at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, while the lyrics were traduced in American Sign Language by Oscar-winning actor Troy Kotsur.

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Chris Stapleton's performance garnered widespread critical acclaim, notably moving Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni to tears, which were televised nationally and became the subject of many internet memes.

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

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Chris Stapleton played the acoustic guitar and electric guitar for both albums.

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

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Chris Stapleton is married to singer-songwriter Morgane Chris Stapleton, who co-wrote Carrie Underwood's 2006 single "Don't Forget to Remember Me".

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At his concert at Madison Square Garden on November 2,2018, Chris Stapleton announced that he and his wife were expecting their fifth child; he repeated the announcement at the Country Music Association awards on November 18,2018.

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On May 12,2019, Morgane and Chris Stapleton welcomed their fifth child, a baby boy, into their family.

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The Stapletons had a dog named Maggie, for which Chris wrote a song on his 2020 album Starting Over.

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

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