Brad Douglas Paisley was born
October 28, 1972 in Glen Dale, West Virginia. His mom and dad Douglas and Sandra
Paisley, a worker for the West Virginia Department of Transportation and a
teacher, respectively. He gained his love for country music from his
grandfather, who gave him his first guitar, a Sears Danelectro Silvertone
around the age of eight. He first performed in public at the age of ten for his
church. He was soon performing regularly on Jamboree USA. For eight years he
opened for established country singers and became the youngest person inducted
into the Jamboree USA Hall of Fame.
He graduated from high school in
1991 and went to West Liberty State College for two years before being awarded
a full scholarship to Belmont University in Nashville Tennessee. After a series
of internships he signed a songwriting contract with EMI publishing and wrote
several singles. In 1999 he released his debut album Who Needs Pictures, which
became certified platinum in less than two years.
At the end
of 2000 he had a relationship with a fellow singer, who without his knowledge
had moved in with her female lover had moved into their own home. She felt absolutely
no attraction to him, or any other man for that matter, had a relationship with
him and quoted saying “he’s wickedly smart, which is one of the reasons why I
made the decision to spend time with him. I loved Brad. I never had the
capacity to fall in love with him, but I figured if I’m gonna live a less than
satisfied life, this is the guy I could live my life with. If I’m gonna be with
a boy, this is the boy." She was even nice enough to show remorse for her
actions to him in her autobiography. He met his current wife, Kimberly Williams
in Father of the Bride he attended with a former girlfriend. He went to the
sequal alone and watched Williams. She began appearing in one of his videos and
after a nine month engagement they were married and had a sun William Huckleberry
on February 22, 2007.
