But he says that he looks back on his childhood with very fond memories. 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. Rucker has said that he had a typical Southern African-American upbringing.
His father was in a gospel band called The Traveling Echoes. According to Rucker, his father was never around, and Rucker saw him only before church on Sundays. His single mother, Carolyn, a nurse at Medical University of South Carolina, raised him with his three sisters and two brothers. Rucker was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. His most recent country album When Was the Last Time (2017) charted #8 on the US Billboard 200 and #2 on the US Top Country Albums (Billboard). 7 (Billboard US Top Country Albums), respectively with singles " Homegrown Honey" (#6) and " Southern Style" (#8) both charting on the U.S. His fourth country album, Southern Style (2014) reached No. His first country Christmas album, Home for the Holidays (2014) reached No. 1 on the US Top Country Albums Billboard chart with singles " True Believers" (#24), " Wagon Wheel" (#1), and " Radio" (#14), all charting on the Billboard U.S. His third country album True Believers (2013) reached No. The album includes the number one singles, " Come Back Song" and " This". A second album, Charleston, SC 1966, was released on October 12, 2010. In 2009, he became the first black American to win the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association, and the second black person to win any award from the association. (Ray Charles hit number one in March 1985 in a duet with Willie Nelson with " Seven Spanish Angels".) It was followed by two more number one singles, " It Won't Be Like This for Long" and " Alright" and the number three hit " History in the Making". Its first single, " Don't Think I Don't Think About It", made him the first Black artist to reach number one on the Hot Country Songs charts since Charley Pride in 1983. Six years later, Rucker signed to Capitol Nashville as a country music singer, releasing the album, Learn to Live that year. He released a solo R&B album, Back to Then in 2002 on Hidden Beach Recordings but no singles from it charted. Rucker co-wrote most of the songs with the other members of the band. The band released five studio albums with Rucker as a member and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of 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. Darius Carlos Rucker (born May 13, 1966) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
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