Billy Currington
- Music Artist
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Born on November 19, 1973, Billy was born and raised in Georgia, and has
four sisters and two brothers. His mother Donna married his step-father
when he was just one and a half years old. Life was not good during his
early years, as his step-father had a substance abuse problem which
caused constant turmoil to the families life. Nevertheless, it was his
step father who introduced Billy to country music. His step father
later died of drinking and cancer. As a Junior in high school Billy
auditioned at the Opryland USA theme park, even though he did not make
it. After graduation he moved to Nashville to pursue a career in music.
In Nashville he worked in a local pawn shop for less than a year and he
returned to his grandmother's house and joined a local country band.
After eight months of playing at the Cavalier Lounge, Currington
decided to give Music City another shot. In time, he found a lucrative
job at a concrete company - 16 hours a day, six days a week - and
playing clubs on the side with no time to dream he quit his job and for
a new one as a part-time personal trainer so he could truly focus on
his music. Currington met Gary Voorhies, a client at the gym who also
worked for a music publishing company. The two got to know each other
and Gary invited Currington to sing and play some music for him. Not
long after that meeting, Billy was signed to Mercury Records Nashville
in 2003. His debut single, "Walk a Little Straighter," tells the story
of a child watching his drunk father stumbling through the door and
vowing not to make that same mistake when he becomes a father.
(Currington wrote the chorus at age 12.) His self-titled album was
released in 2003. In 2004, he memorably swung from a chandelier in the
music video for his duet with Shania Twain, "Party For Two." He
parlayed his exposure into a successful second album, Doin' Somethin'
Right, in 2005. The first single, "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right,"
reached No. 1 at country radio at the end of 2005. Halfway through
2007, Billy had to cancel his tour dates for the remainder of the year
because of laryngitis. Then, later in the year, he underwent treatment
for the abuse he suffered as a child. Billy released "Tangled Up" in
late 2007, but the song only peaked at No. 30. "Don't" was released in
mid-2008 as the first single of his third album, and that song made it
all the way to No. 2. His latest album "Little Bit of Everything" was
released in October of 2008. Coming across his latest single "People
are Crazy" was discovered by currington on a demo CD he found in a
recording studio and asked the writer Bobby Braddock if he could have
the CD, taking the CD he listened to the songs, that's when he came
across the song and called up Bobby and asked if he could record
it, but he would have to stand in line with all the other singers who
wanted to record it. One day while in the studio ready to record some
songs on his album he called Bobby back and asked again if he could
just record it and Bobby then called around and called Billy back to
tell him he could. After recording the song it reached #1 on the GAC
top 20 countdown on July 17,2009 the second song of his to reach #1 and
things couldn't be getting any better for this country star.