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Darius Rucker

Darius founded Hootie and the Blowfish at the University of South Carolina in 1986, releasing

five studio albums, charting six Top 40 Billboard 100 hits. After releasing a solo R&B album,

Back to Then, in 2002, for Hidden Beach Recordings, he signed with Capitol Records Nashville six

years later, reinventing himself as a country star, the first African-American to chart a #1 Hot

Country Song (“Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”) since Charley Pride in 1983. He earned the

Country Music Association’s Best New Artist Award in 2009, and his hit single, “Wagon Wheel,”

was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance last year.