Darius Rucker is an American singer and songwriter who is very popular as the vocalist of the rock band Hootie & Blowfish. A very versatile individual, the singer has also made a name for himself as a solo artist across different genres. For over 30 years, there are many things about him that many people want to know.
Biography and age of Darius Rucker
It was on May 13, 1966 that he was born as Darius Carlos Rucker in Charleston, South Carolina. Although one could easily assume that he grew up with music because his father was a member of the gospel band Rolling Stone, his father had very little influence in his life as he was raised by his mother in the alongside his five other siblings. In fact, growing up, he had very little contact with his father of whom he saw very little.
Apart from his mother, another person who helped raise him was his grandmother since his mother who was a nurse had to work. Still, that didn’t stop him from seeing great poverty as a child, sharing a three-bedroom apartment with his aunts and other children, totaling nearly 20.
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For his education, Darius Rucker attended Charleston’s Middleton High School and after graduation he moved to the University of South Carolina. It was there that he began to push his musical career even further, even though he had been singing since he was little in his church choir.
College gave him the opportunity to meet the likes of Mark Bryan, Jim “Soni” Sonefeld, and Dean Felber, and together they started the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish. It was in 1986.
The band went on to release 5 studio albums. The first, Cracked Rear View, was released in 1994 and it was a huge hit, topping the Billboard charts in the US and it recorded a diamond certificate in the US and Canada, while it had a gold in the UK with platinum in Australia. Fairweather Johnson which was their next album came out in 1996 and it was also very successful. Their next three albums were Musical Chairs (1998), Hootie and the Blowfish (2003), and Looking Lucky (2005).
The rock band won the Grammys in 1996 when they won Best New Artist as well as Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with vocals for Let Her Cry. He also has 2 American Music Awards as well as an MTV Video Music Award.
Hootie & the Blowfish went on hiatus in 2008, and Rucker decided to pursue a solo career as a country musician. His first album this time around was Learn to Live which he released the same year. After that, he released Charleston, SC 1966 (2010), True Believers (2012), Southern Style and Home for the Holidays (2014), and When Was the Last Time (2016). Surprisingly, the man who also released an R&B album Back to Then in 2002, has also had great success as a country singer.
Among the awards he won this time around were a Country Music Association Award for New Artist of the Year (2009) and a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance (2013). It also went home with a British Country Music Association award for International Album of the Year (2015)
Considering he was born in 1966, guessing his correct age is pretty easy.
Family: wife and children
Darius Rucker is married to Beth Leonard. The first time the singer saw the woman, he immediately knew she was the one he was going to marry and he made sure to tell her about it on their first date. The two decided to get married in 2000.
Beth Leonard gave birth to the couple’s first child, Daniella Rose in 2001 and in 2005 she gave birth to a son, Jack.
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Before marrying Beth Leonard, Darius Rucker had a daughter, Carolyn Pearl Phillips, with his then-girlfriend. Carolyn was born on April 21, 1995.
Net worth and house
For a man who has almost touched the four walls of the world with his music, it will be very surprising to expect him not to have a tantalizing net worth. His net worth is estimated at $14 million.
The singer once had a home in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
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