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Ryan Laird (born March 8, 1984) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. He received recognition and media attention across The United States and Canada in December 2008 after putting up a billboard on Nashville, Tennessee's famed music row asking Taylor Swift to produce his album. Located at Broadway & 17th Ave, the billboard displayed Laird in a classroom holding a note reading “Hey Taylor - I LOVE your music. Will you produce my album?” Intern Adam from Nashville radio station 1075 The River, was also on the billboard firing a spit ball towards Laird from across the classroom. When asked about Laird and his billboard on E! News Weekend, Swift said, "I definitely want to meet him ... I listened to one of his songs and absolutely fell in love with it, and I think he's got great melodies and he's a great writer. I think he could really be great and be huge, so it'll be really cool to maybe work with him." Laird said he was blown away and broke down when he saw the interview. "I was just ecstatic, tears came to my eyes," he said. == Early life == Laird was born in Toronto, Ontario. Along with his father Laird Schneider and mother Laurie Schneider, he has one younger brother, Brett Schneider, and one younger sister, Kelsi Schneider. He grew up on a 100-acre beef farm just outside of Fergus, Ontario, the son of a high school teacher father and a school secretary mother. At age 10, Laird toured England and Wales as a member of the Cambridge Kiwanis Boys Choir. Laird would go on to sing with the choir for 3 years, starting as a soprano and leaving as a tenor. At the age of ten, Laird began to perform around his home town, singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs, and also started writing songs. Laird's great grandmother influenced his early singing. She would hold him in her rocking chair singing “Jesus Loves Me” and at age one, he would “hum” the melody back to her. Although Laird's great grandmother was a professional opera singer, his tastes always ran more toward country and pop music. Laird credit's Bryan Adams, Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, Keith Urban and Taylor Swift for demonstrating how much impact can be made by “stretching boundaries”. Throughout his early teens, Laird's parents would drive him and his 2 younger siblings around Ontario to various festival and fair events where the 3 kids would perform in the family band. At age 18, Laird made his first trip to Nashville and fell in love with the city. He wrote over 200 songs that year which led to meetings with publishers on music row. Laird went on to sign his first publishing deal with Cherry Lane Music Publishing.〔Cherry Lane Music Publishing〕 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「Ryan Laird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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