Clark Beckham Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from college with honors
• While growing up, he was very involved with football and other sports
• Grew up listening to music form the 1960s and 1970s
• Started singing in a gospel trio with his mother and father when he was 8 years old
• Quote: "Whether I'm practicing scales, learning songs or listening to songs, music is the most major part of my life․ I think it, I speak it, I live in and around it, I make it and I do it․ I feel like music is as much a part of me as my own heart․"
• Quote: "I'm in love with music and part of my pursuit of her is being able to play every instrument I can; to be able to experience music through every avenue possible․"
• Was a finalist on season 14 of "American Idol․"
• His three favorite songs are "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye, "Gravity" by John Mayer" and "Lately" by Stevie Wonder
• If he had to pattern his career after that of another artist, he would choose John Mayer
• The three artists that have most inspired him are his father, Virgil Beckham, Stevie Wonder and Allen Stone