Best known as co-lead vocalist for the platinum-selling country-pop group Lady A, Charles Kelley has stockpiled accolades throughout his two-decade career in Nashville. In addition to co-writing the trio’s Grammy-winning breakout single “I Run to You” and the crossover smash “Need You Now”, Kelley has also penned top five hits for Luke Bryan (“Do I”) and Darius Rucker (“Homegrown Honey”).
Winning six Grammy Awards with Lady A, he has also enjoyed success on his own. Kelley has released two solo albums, including 2016’s The Driver, which peaked at number two on the Billboard country albums chart. Last year, he dropped his first solo effort in nearly a decade with Songs for a New Moon. This project sees Kelley embracing the glittering influences of ’80s pop while reckoning with his newfound sobriety.
Today we’re taking a look at the life and career of Charles Burgess Kelley, born in Augusta, Georgia, on this day (September 11) in 1981.
Music Runs in Charles Kelley’s Family
Encouraged by their parents from an early age, Charles spent his teenage years performing with older brothers John and Josh in a band called Inside Blue. (And he isn’t the only successful musician in his family — Josh Kelley is a pop-rock artist with two Top 40 hits under his belt.)…