BUDDY JEWELL

The American artist will perform Saturday 10 dicember 22.00 at pavilion 5.

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Buddy Jewell was born in Lepanto, Arkansas on April 2, 1961. He began playing guitar after buying one from a schoolmate during childhood, and saved the money that he earned bagging groceries to buy guitar lesson books.
Jewell later moved to Camden, Arkansas at age 21 in pursuit of a musical career. There, he discovered a band called White Oak, which was seeking a new lead singer. This band was sponsored by a booking agency whose roster also included a band founded by a then-unknown Trace Adkins. After touring with White Oak for four years, he moved to Dallas, Texas; He later entered a singing competition that was sponsored by the band Alabama, whose music was also an inspiration to him. He won the competition’s top prize, which was an opening slot for the band. In 1993 he moved to Nashville, and found work two years later as a demo singer. As a demo singer, he recorded more than 5000 demos. Among the songs that Jewell recorded demos for were Write This Down for George Strait, A Little Past Little Rock for Lee Ann Womack, The One for Gary Allan and You’re Beginning to Get to Me for Clay Walker. In 2003, Jewell competed in the first season of the television singing competition Nashville Star. He became the show’s first winner that season, and was soon signed to a recording contract with Columbia Records Nashville.

2003 – 2004 Buddy Jewell by Columbia Records Nashville

On May 5, 2003, two days after his win, Jewell’s debut single “Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey’s Song)” was shipped to radio. It became the highest-debuting single by a new country artist since the singles charts were first tabulated via Nielsen SoundScan in 1990. This song reached number three on the country charts and 29 on the pop charts. It was the first single from his self-titled debut album, which was produced by former RCA Records artist Clint Black and was recorded in ten days. Buddy Jewell sold 500,000 copies and earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), in addition to producing a second number three country hit in “Sweet Southern Comfort“, which also reached number 40 on the pop charts. This song was followed by the number 38 country single “One Step at a Time”

2004 – 2005 Times Like These by Columbia Records Nashville

Jewell’s second album for Columbia, Times Like These, was released in 2005. This album did not perform as well at radio, with its first single (“If She Were Any Other Woman“) reaching number 27 on the charts, and the second single (“So Gone“) failing to chart entirely. Not of this opinion were all fans of the genre Classic Country; this, however, was not enough to ensure that the contract between Buddy and Columbia Records was shut down.

Since 2006, Buddy Jewell released two more albums for Diamond Dust Records – Country Enough in 2008 and in 2011 I Surrender All. Buddy Jewell was recognized by the ACM (Academy of Country Music), by CMA (Country Music Association) and CMT Award (Country Music Television) with multiple nominations. There are several concerts across the South of the United States see this great artist protagonist of many stages between the most famous festivals and events of the Country Music warning the hearts of all are passionate about Classic Country. It will be the same here when Buddy Jewell will be in Italy for the third edition of Country Christmas..