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15 Facts About Wade Hayes

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Tony Wade Hayes was born on April 20,1969 and is an American country music artist.

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Wade Hayes released two more albums for Columbia Nashville: On a Good Night in 1996 and When the Wrong One Loves You Right in 1998.

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Wade Hayes' career was briefly placed on hiatus due to a diagnosis of Stage IV colon cancer, which went into remission in 2012.

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Wade Hayes was born and raised in Bethel Acres, Oklahoma.

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The family returned to Oklahoma, where Wade Hayes later found work as a musician in his father's band.

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Wade Hayes returned to Nashville, where he began recording demo tapes and writing his own material.

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Also in 1995, Wade Hayes was nominated for Top New Male Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association.

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In 1997, Wade Hayes issued a cover of Glen Campbell's song "Wichita Lineman" as the first single for a third album which was to have been titled Tore Up from the Floor Up.

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Wade Hayes considered When the Wrong One Loves You Right as a more mature effort than his first two albums, with more of an emphasis on ballads than his previous two albums.

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In 2003, Wade Hayes joined fiddler Mark McClurg to form the duo McWade Hayes, which charted one single and recorded one unreleased album for Universal South Records.

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Wade Hayes rejoined the music business in 2008, taking a role as lead guitarist and singer in former Alabama lead singer Randy Owen's road band.

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Wade Hayes released a fifth album, Place to Turn Around, in July 2009, on an independent label.

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In 2012, Wade Hayes released the single "Is It Already Time" through RPM Entertainment.

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In December 2011, Wade Hayes was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer, which was successfully operated on that same month.

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On September 25,2018, Wade Hayes became engaged to Lea Bayer, a realtor.