Clay Walker Biography

Fast Facts

• Won Best New Male Vocalist at the 1995 Country Song Roundup
• Radio & Records named him Best New Male Artist in 1993
• As a teen, he brought a demo tape of a song he wrote to a local radio station, and although the disc jockey told him it was against policy to play such tapes, as he was driving home he heard it play on the station
• Worked nights as a desk clerk at a Super 8 Motel when he was 16
• Before gaining national exposure, he made a name for himself on the competitive Texas honky tonk circuit
• Quote: "I definitely don't feel like a rookie, but at the same time, I think the best years of my recording career are ahead of me․"
• Quote: "The biggest thing that I wanted to do was just get songs on the radio and make music that people love․"
• His hits include such country singles as "What's It to You," "Live Until I Die," "Dreaming with my Eyes open," "If I Could Make Living," This Woman and This Man" and "Rumor Has It․"
• Once, when he stopped to eat at a barbecue restaurant in Mississippi, he ran into a family who was holding a wedding reception there, and he obliged when they asked him to sing a song for the newlyweds
• Once placed seventh in the cutting horse competition at the Houston Livestock Rodeo