Darius Rucker

Darius Carlos Rucker is an American singer and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Grammy Awardwinning rock band, Hootie amp the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim Soni Sonefeld and Dean Felber. The band has released five studio albums with him as a member, and charted six tophits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker cowrote the majority of the bands songs with the other three members.

Darius Carlos Rucker was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, where his family history goes back generations. He lives in Charleston with his wife and three children. His single mother, Carolyn, a nurse at Medical University of South Carolina, raised him with his three sisters and two brothers. According to Rucker, his father was never around, and Rucker saw him only before church on Sundays. His father was in a gospel band called The Rolling Stones. Rucker has said that he had a typical Southern, AfricanAmerican upbringing. His family attended church every Sunday and was economically poor, and at one point, his mother, her two sisters, his grandmother andchildren were all living in a threebedroom house. But he says that he looks back on his childhood with very fond memories. His sister, LCorine, recalled that singing was always his dream.

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