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Chanteur
Country US né le 23 Octobre 1972 à Kings Mountain (Caroline du Nord).
By all Nash Vegas accounts, North Carolina singer/songwriter Jimmy Wayne comes
from the wrong side of the tracks. Born in 1972, he was abandoned by his father
at a young age and raised by a troubled mother and in a series of foster homes
when she was in prison. On his 15th birthday he saw his stepfather shoot his
stepsister three times, paralyzing her, and survived a murder attempt by the
same man. He entered, and then ran from, a county home and became a homeless
youth who did what was needed to survive on the street. His encounter with a
neighborhood couple led them to give him a job and a place to live, and created
the pillars of his final foster family. With Beatrice and Russell Costner, Wayne was
able for the first time to indulge his love of music, which included Hall &
Oates, Alan
Jackson, Lionel Richie, Ronnie Milsap, Iron
Maiden, Queensrÿche, and Judas Priest. He formed his first band, called
Fantasyche, and began taking music seriously. When Beatrice died, Wayne finished
high school and became a prison guard at the Gaston Correctional Facility. An
inmate who made an anti-drug presentation using a guitar during a school
assembly had influenced him greatly. Wayne visited the inmate for songwriting
advice and went to work at the prison while studying criminal justice at a local
community college. After finishing his associate's degree, he left North
Carolina for Nashville.
For three years, he worked at Acuff-Rose writing songs alongside Dean
Dillon and Whitey Shafer, while polishing his playing and singing skills.
During this time he co-wrote Tracy
Byrd's Top Ten smash "Put Your Hand in Mine," with Skip
Ewing. Wayne signed his own deal with DreamWorks Nashville in 2001, after
being courted by producer Chris Lindsey and James Stroud. His debut was issued
in June of 2003 and placed a single in the Top Ten before release. "Stay Gone"
was a Billboard country hit. It was followed by "Paper Angels," a narrative
of Wayne's own life on the streets and those he encountered there, "Blue and
Brown," about an encounter with a foster brother who became an inmate at the
prison where Wayne worked, and a devastatingly honest revenge fantasy entitled
"The Rabbit." Given the timing of its release, Wayne's album turned a small
industry buzz into a wildfire of publicity and speculation about the new
directions he was using in country music and pop, which the industry glommed
onto with desperate hope.
Nashville's identity problems in the early part of the millennium created a
crisis at radio and on CMT, leading the industry into a tailspin due to
cookie-cutter artists singing mediocre songs. Wayne may be pretty, but he is
substantive and presents an entirely new twist on the entire country tradition.
Billboard, country music, and even the Country Music Foundation took an early
and large interest in his career. DreamWorks closed in 2005, and Wayne's
contract was transferred to Big Machine Records, where he released Do You
Believe Me Now?, his second album, in 2008. Five years is a long time in the
contemporary country music biz, but Wayne's
own writing and performing were memorable and connected deeply with both radio
programmers and the general public. The disc reached number four on the
Billboard country charts and spawned two singles, "I Will Never Leave You" and
the title track, the latter of which hit number one in late 2008. Wayne's own
business smarts took over. He knew not to tempt fate twice; he wasted no time
and jumped right back into the studio to record Sara Smile (named for the Hall &
Oates track -- it's the set's first single and they appear on the song as well),
which was released by Big Machine's Valory Music subsidiary in November of 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wayne
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
Style musical : Contemporary Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZ4zyuBpug
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles
| 3003 | SP DREAMWORKS 0044-50789-7 (US) | . |
Stay Gone / Blue And Brown |
| 05/2003 | CD DREAMWORKS 000034532 (US) |
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Stay Gone / Stay Gone / Stay Gone |
| 2003 | SP DREAMWORKS B0001239-21 (US) | . |
I Love You This Much (album version) / Paper Angels (album version) |
| 2003 | CD DREAMWORKS DRMR-14161-2 (US) |
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I Love You This Much (single version) |
| 2004 | CD DREAMWORKS DWNR-02556-2 (US) (promo) | . |
You Are (album version) / You Are (single version) |
| 2006 | CD BIG MACHINE 0101 (US) |
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That's All I'll Ever Need / That's All I'll Ever Need / That's All I'll Ever Need |
| 2008 | CD VALORY VMCAJW0100 (US) |
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Do You Believe Me Now? / Do You Believe Me Now? / Do You Believe Me Now? |
| 2008 | CD VALORY VMCAJW0100 (US) (promo) |
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I Will (radio edit) / I Will (album version) / I Will (radio edit) |
| 2008 | SP VALORY V-1010 (US) | . |
Stronger Woman (JEWEL) / Do You Believe Me Now (Jimmy WAYNE) |
| 2008 | SP VALORY ATM-V-1012 (US) | . |
I Do (JEWEL) / Do You Believe Me Now (Jimmy WAYNE) |
| 2008 | SP VALORY V-1014 (US) | . |
I Will (Jimmy WAYNE) / Till It Feels Like Cheating (JEWEL) |
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Albums
| 06/2003 | CD DREAMWORKS 044 -0355-2 (US) |
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JIMMY WAYNE - After You / Are You Ever Gonna Love Me? / Stay Gone / Trespassin' / Paper Angels / You Are / She Runs / Just A Dream / Blue And Brown / I Love You This Much / You're Not The One I'm Talking To / The Rabbit |
| 08/2008 | CD VALORY VMCAJW0100 (US) |
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DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW? - Do You Believe Me Now / I Will / I'll Be That / Brighter Days / One On One / Kerosene Kid / No Good For Me / True Believer / I Didn't Come Here To Lose / Where You're Going / Stay Gone / I Love You This Much / Do You Believe Me Now [music video] / Cut X Cut [Jimmy Wayne interview and behind the scenes] |
| 11/2009 | CD VALORY VMCAJW0200 (US) |
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SARA SMILE - Things I Believe / All The Time In The World / Sara Smile / Just Knowing You Love Me / Just Look At You / Counting The Days / There's A Memory / Belongs To You / I'll Never Leave You / Elephant Ears |
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