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|occupation = |years_active = 1986–present |label = |associated_acts = |website = }} Darius Carlos Rucker (born May 13, 1966) is an American musician. He first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Hootie & 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 top 40 hits on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote the majority of the band's songs with the other three members. He released a solo R&B album, ''Back to Then,'' in 2002 on Hidden Beach Recordings but did not chart any singles from it. Six years later, Rucker signed to Capitol Records Nashville as a country music artist, releasing the album ''Learn to Live'' that year. Its first single, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It", made him the first black artist to reach No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs charts since Charley Pride in 1983. (Ray Charles hit No. 1 in March 1985 in a duet with Willie Nelson with Seven Spanish Angels). It was followed by two more No. 1 singles, "It Won't Be Like This for Long" and "Alright" and the number three "History in the Making." In 2009, he became the first black person to win the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association, and only the second black person to win any award from the association. A second Capitol album, ''Charleston, SC 1966,'' was released on October 12, 2010. The album includes the No. 1 singles, "Come Back Song" and "This". ==Early life== 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.〔Puterbaugh, Parke (June 15, 1995)., "Fish out of water." ''Rolling Stone.'' (710):74〕 His single mother, Carolyn, a nurse at Medical University Of South Carolina, raised him with his three sisters and two brothers.〔Gray, Kevin, Cindy Dampier (April 10, 1995). "Fish out of water." ''People''. 43 (14):77〕 According to Rucker, his father was never around, and Rucker saw him only before church on Sundays.〔Farley, Christopher Joh; Thigpen, David E.. (April 29, 1996), "Can 13 million Hootie fans really be wrong?" Time, Vol. 147 Issue 18, p74〕 His father was in a gospel band called The Rolling Stones.〔 Rucker has said that he had a typical Southern, African-American upbringing.〔 His family attended church every Sunday and was economically poor, and at one point, his mother, her two sisters, his grandmother and 14 children were all living in a three-bedroom house.〔 But he says that he looks back on his childhood with very fond memories.〔 His sister, L'Corine, recalled that singing was always his dream.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Darius Rucker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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