Clay Walker

Birth Name:

Ernest Clayton Walker

Birth Place:

Beaumont, Texas, United States

Profession

Soundtrack, Actor

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

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