Bucky Covington

William Joel Bucky Covington III is an American country music singer. He placed eighth on the 5th season of the Fox Networks talent competition series American Idol. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records. His selftitled debut album, produced by Dale Oliver and Mark Miller of the band Sawyer Brown, was released on April 17, 2007. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and produced three hit singles on the Hot Country Songs charts A Different World at number six, Its Good to Be Us at number eleven, and Ill Walk at number ten. Three more singles I Want My Life Back, Gotta Be Somebody and A Fathers Love , were released for an unreleased second album, titled Im Alright, and later included on his 2011 album, Good Guys.

Bucky Covington was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, to Gene Covington and Deborah Gates on November 8, 1977 along with his identical twin brother, Robert David Rocky Covington. Bucky is the nickname derived from his grandfather Buck. He graduated in the class of 1996 from Scotland High School in Laurinburg, North Carolina. He worked at Covingtons Body Shop in Hamlet, North Carolina.

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