Happy 44th birthday to Eric Church! The singer was born on this day (May 3) in 1977, in Granite Falls, N.C.
Church developed an affinity for music early on, purchasing his first guitar and beginning to write songs when he was only 13 years old. By the time he was a senior in high school, Church was performing in bars all around North Carolina, but he didn t immediately set his sights on a music career. Instead, Church graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in business before relocating to Nashville in 2001. He intended to become a songwriter. I never really came to town to be an artist, Church tells
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In 2008, Eric Church married Katherine Blasingame at Westglow Spa & Resort in Blowing Rock, N.C. The couple had stayed at the resort before, and, he tells CMT, “We decided that it would be the ideal spot to get married, up in the North Carolina mountains, with just family around us. I can’t imagine a more perfect spot.”
During Church s wedding, the now-country star performed a song he wrote for his new wife, called You Make It Look So Easy; the song appears on his record
Carolina. It was a surprise for Katherine,
and it was a surprising move for Church: I hate love songs, he admits. I have a hard time with them. I think they’ve been done so many times, and I hate stuff that’s just your cliches.