Brad Paisley

Brad Douglas Paisley is an American country singer and songwriter. Starting with his 1999 debut album, Who Needs Pictures, he has releasedstudio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashville label, with all of his albums certified Gold or higher by the RIAA. He has scoredtopsingles on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart,of which have reached 1. He set a new record in 2009 for most consecutive singles reaching the top spot on that chart.

Paisley was born on October 28, 1972, in Glen Dale, West Virginia. He is the only child of Douglas Edward Doug Paisley, who worked for the West Virginia Department of Transportation, and Sandra Jean Sandy Paisley, a teacher. He was raised in Glen Dale, West Virginia. He has stated that his love of country music stems from his maternal grandfather, Warren Jarvis, who gave him his first guitar, a Sears Danelectro Silvertone, and taught him how to play at eight years old. At ten, he performed for the first time in public by singing in his church. He later recalled that, Pretty soon, I was performing at every Christmas party and Mothers Day event. The neat thing about a small town is that when you want to be an artist, by golly, theyll make you one. At age 13, he wrote his first song, Born on Christmas Day. He had been taking lessons with local guitarist Clarence Hank Goddard. By 13, Goddard and Paisley formed a band called Brad Paisley and the CNotes, with the addition of two of Paisleys

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