Kenneth Eric Church, known professionally as Eric Church, is an American country music singer-songwriter. Getting his big break in Nashville in 2002, Terri Clark signed and produced "The World Needs A Drink" for Church to get him on the map. He then signed to Capitol Records in 2005, he released a total of four studio albums for that label. His debut album, 2006's Sinners Like Me, produced four singles on the Billboard country charts including the Top 20 hits "How 'Bout You," "Two Pink Lines," and "Guys Like Me." His second album, 2009's Carolina, produced three more singles: "Smoke a Little Smoke" and his first Top 10 hits, "Love Your Love the Most" and "Hell on the Heart." 2011's Chief, his first No. 1 album, includes the singles "Homeboy," "Creepin'", and "Like Jesus Does". This album also gave him his first two No.1 hits in "Drink in My Hand," and "Springsteen" in January and June 2012. "The Only Way I Know", which he and Jason Aldean along with Luke Bryan recorded together on Aldean's album Night Train, went on to become his third number one in early 2013. A fourth album, The Outsiders, was released in February 2014. [More at Wikipedia]

May 3rd, 1977 in Granite Falls, North Carolina (Age 47)