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Joshua Owen and his twin brother
Jarrod were born on August 28, 1981 in Vero Beach, Florida. Both turned out to
be athletic and played various sports through high school. Josh eventually
settled on playing golf. He began a
promising career winning his first tournament at the age of fifteen. They both
graduated from Vero Beach High School and began attending Florida State
University. There he was involved in a wakeboarding accident that left him
unable to play gold. While going through recovery, he borrowed a guitar from a
neighbor and taught himself to play.
He practiced and began performing
at a local bar and soon became well-known in the area. He began writing his own
music and moved to Nashville. His first stop was a bank where he opened a
savings account, when he mentioned he was a music artist she asked him for a cd
which she sent to the Warner/Chappell producing company. The company did not
sign him but he met Jimmy Ritchey who he wrote a song entitled ghosts for Kenny
Chesney. Although Chesney did not end up recording the song, it did catch the attention
of the Sony BMG who signed him in 2005. The company asked him to change his
name to Jake to avoid confusion with Josh Turner and Josh Kelley.
On May 7th, 2012 he
married Lacey Buchanan in Vero Beach. He proposed to her on stage, without a
ring, but after having performed “Don’t think I Can’t Love You.” They had a
daughter on November 22, 2012, also known as Thanksgiving Day, and named her
Olive Pearl. When he tours he enjoys traveling with his English bulldog, Merle,
saying that “He stays up front; he likes it there.” He also has an interesting tattoo.
He has the lips of his wife, at the time girlfriend, tattooed on his right
bicep so that he can carry her lips with him. To help keep it discreet he had
it placed on the upper-right inside of his bicep.
That's really cool. I never knew that Jake's real name was 'Josh'. Is he the only one who is musically inclined? Or is his brother a musician as well?
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that Jake Owen still likes to wakeboard. Do you know if that is true? Also, what kind of accident was it that he had while wakeboarding?
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