Eric Church

Eric Church has sung the national anthem at the Superbowl, won the Billboard Music Award for Top Country Tour, been nominated for a Grammy 10 times, won an Academy of Country Music (ACM) Award seven times, and the Country Music Association (CMA) Award four times. Since he learned to play the guitar, Eric Church has been a singer/songwriter, and he's earned money as a performer since he was a teen.

Church's most recent release, Heart & Soul, is a triple album of songs he had written during a stay in the North Carolina mountains during COVID. For 28 days he and his co-writers and band wrote a song every morning and recorded it that night. Out of that album, the song “Heart on Fire” was on Billboard's Hot 100, and hit number five on Billboard’s Country Airplay list.

From North Carolina, Church learned to play the guitar at 13, and by the time he was a senior in high school, he was playing Jimmy Buffett songs and some of his compositions at the local bars. After earning a marketing degree, he moved to Nashville to pursue a career, meet the right people, and develop his songwriting skills.

He co-wrote songs for other musicians, including Terri Clark and Dean Miller, and ultimately released his first album, Sinners Like Me in 2006, and performed on the Grand Ole Opry for the first time in April of that year.

Decidedly country, Church’s music is country rock, outlaw country, and southern rock, his musical influences include Metallica and AC/DC, as well as Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Jr., Merle Haggard, and Kris Kristofferson.

Church's long-time band members include Driver Williams and Jeff Cease on rhythm guitar and lead guitar; Jeff Hyde on acoustic guitar, banjo, and background vocals; Lee Hendricks on bass guitar; and Craig Wright on drums.

In 2011, Church was named Top New Solo Vocalist by the ACM Awards. Since then, he has been nominated for several awards many times. Some of his awards include AMA Song of the Year for “Springsteen,” ACM Video of the Year for “Mr. Misunderstood” in 2016, and Album of the Year from CMA for Mr. Misunderstood, also in 2016.