Eric Church Biography

Eric Church is a country music singer and songwriter.

Church grew up in Granite Falls, North Carolina He is known for his debut hit single, "How 'Bout You", from his debut album, Sinners Like Me. Church has said that -- given the choice -- he would prefer to be a songwriter to being a singer, and he wrote all of the songs found on his debut album. He graduated from Appalachian State University located in Boone, North Carolina with a degree in marketing.

Eric Church grew up in Granite Falls, N.C., in an area known as one of the world's furniture capitals. He recalls being 4 years old, standing on a table at a local restaurant, singing "Elvira" to a waitress and a handful of patrons who would reward him with change. He was 13 when he started writing songs, and he bought a cheap, hard-to-tune guitar and taught himself to play, influenced by his parents' eclectic tastes, which stretched from Motown to bluegrass.

At a little bar in the mountains of North Carolina, he watched a band getting big tips for playing songs that he knew, and within two weeks, he had a gig of his own. He quickly formed a band with his roommate, his brother and another guitarist and temporarily picked the name the Mountain Boys. The first night they knew just 14 songs, but they faked their way through a four-hour set and held onto enough of the crowd to help launch them as a regional act. In a year or so, Church was throwing original songs into the set mix and not long afterward was selling CDs of his own material. They were playing four or five nights a week in bars, as well as frat and sorority parties in Asheville, Hickory and Boone.



'Sinners Like Me' (2006)

How 'Bout You (2006) Peak Position: #12

Two Pink Lines (2006) Peak Position: Current Single.