David Wesley Haywood was born on July 5,1982 and is an American country musician and songwriter.
16 Facts About Dave Haywood
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Dave Haywood is one-third of the American country music band Lady A, in which he plays guitar, piano and mandolin, and sings backing vocals.
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Dave Haywood's mother taught him to play piano and his father taught him to play guitar.
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Dave Haywood sang in Trinity-on-the-Hill United Methodist Church's youth choir called Love Unlimited where he served as the president during his senior year of high school.
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Dave Haywood first met Charles Kelley at Riverside Middle School in Evans, Georgia.
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Dave Haywood was in a jazz band with Charles's brother Josh Kelley when he attended Lakeside High School and graduated in 2000.
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Dave Haywood attended college at the University of Georgia where he graduated in 2004.
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Dave Haywood formed the country music group as Lady Antebellum in 2006, in Nashville, Tennessee along with Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott.
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Besides writing for Lady Antebellum, Dave Haywood co-wrote Luke Bryan's 2009 single "Do I" and the track "Love Song" on Miranda Lambert's album Revolution.
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In 2005, Dave Haywood would meet up with Kelley, his old middle school classmate, every other weekend in Atlanta, Georgia to write songs together.
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Kelley convinced Dave Haywood to move to Nashville in 2006 to write songs together and to help Kelley to become a successful solo country artist.
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Dave Haywood quit his job with Protiviti, Inc in Atlanta and moved to Nashville to focus on music full-time.
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Kelley invited Scott to join him and Dave Haywood to write songs together which led to them creating the new group, in which they named Lady Antebellum.
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Fans have since nicknamed the group Lady A Haywood acted as the band's booking agent as they performed in bars and everywhere they could to get noticed.
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On December 19,2011, Dave Haywood became engaged to Kelli Cashiola after seven months of dating.
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Dave Haywood and Cashiola married on April 14,2012, in Nashville, Tennessee On April 21,2014, the couple announced that they were expecting a baby boy in September Their son, Cash Van Dave Haywood, was born on September 7,2014.