Bryan White
(born February 17, 1974 in Lawton, Oklahoma) is an American country music artist. Signed to Asylum Records in 1994 at age 20, White released his self-titled debut album that year. Both it and its follow-up, 1996's Between Now and Forever
, were certified platinum by the RIAA, and 1997's The Right Place
was certified gold. His fourth album, 1999's How Lucky I Am
, failed to produce any major singles, and he was dropped from the label's roster.
White has charted seventeen singles on the Billboard
country charts, of which four reached Number One: "Someone Else's Star" in 1995; "Rebecca Lynn" and "So Much for Pretending," both in 1996; and "Sittin' on Go" in 1997. He was also a duet partner on the album version of Shania Twain's 1998 single "From This Moment On", which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Overall, he has recorded four studio albums, a Greatest Hits package, and three EPs.
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Biography
White was born in
Lawton,
Oklahoma. White is married to former soap opera actress
Erika Page of
One Life to Live
and is the father of Justin, born in October 2003 and Jackson, born in July 2005.
Career
Bryan White
Before signing to
Asylum Records in 1994, White worked as a
t-shirt vendor for the band
Pearl River, a band which was signed to
Liberty Records in the early 1990s. After the band broke up, several of its members joined his backing band.
[1] White released his debut single "Eugene You Genius" in late 1994.
Although it failed to reach Top 40, his
debut album was released. The next single, "Look at Me Now", peaked at #24, followed by the consecutive Number One hits "
Someone Else's Star" (which
Davis Daniel had previously recorded) and "
Rebecca Lynn". The success of these latter two singles helped
Bryan White
achieve platinum status from the RIAA. The album included two songs which would later be singles for other artists in 1997: "Nothin' Less Than Love" (recorded by
The Buffalo Club) and "Going, Going, Gone" (recorded by
Neal McCoy). Also in 1995,
Sawyer Brown charted in the Top Five with "I Don't Believe in Goodbye", a song which White co-wrote with
Scotty Emerick and Sawyer Brown lead singer Mark Miller. In 1996, White earned the
Country Music Association's Horizon Award and the
Academy of Country Music's Top Male Vocalist award.
Between Now and Forever
White's second album,
Between Now and Forever
, was released in early 1996.
Its lead-off, "I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore", reached #4 on the country charts, followed by the #1 "
So Much for Pretending" (his longest-lasting Number One, at two weeks), the #15 "That's Another Song", and his fourth and final Number One hit, 1997's "
Sittin' on Go". Like his debut album,
Between Now and Forever
was certified platinum. That same year,
Diamond Rio charted in the Top 5 with "Imagine That", which White co-wrote with former Pearl River member Derek George and
Neil Thrasher, who was then recording on Asylum as one half of the duo
Thrasher Shiver.
The Right Place
The Right Place
followed in 1997. Its title track, "Love Is the Right Place", was a Top 5 hit, although later singles proved less successful. "One Small Miracle" peaked at #15, and "Bad Day to Let You Go" peaked in the thirties in 1998. Nonetheless,
The Right Place
was certified gold. Also in 1998, White made a guest appearance on
Shania Twain's Top Ten country and pop hit "
From This Moment On", though there are several edits of the song, both country and pop, in which his vocals are mostly replaced with Twain's. The final single from
The Right Place
, "Tree of Hearts", failed to make Top 40. White followed up the album with a Christmas
EP entitled
Dreaming of Christmas
.
He also co-wrote and sang background vocals on
Lila McCann's late 1998 single "You're Gone". Also in 1998, he was one of several artists to participate in a charity single entitled "One Heart at a Time".
How Lucky I Am
and Greatest Hits
A fourth album for Asylum,
How Lucky I Am
, followed in 1999. Neither of its singles ("You're Still Beautiful to Me" and "God Gave Me You") reached higher than #38, and Asylum closed its Nashville division soon afterward. The label's parent company,
Warner Music Group, issued a
Greatest Hits
album in 2000 on the
Warner Bros. Records label.
This album included the #56 single "How Long", White's final chart entry. The same year, he sang several of the songs featured in the animated movie
Quest for Camelot
.
2000s
Being so young and then thrust into stardom so fast ended up taking its toll on White. As White has stated, "My identity was formed by the music industry...", and his career and success began defining who he was to himself.
[2] With his fourth album being less than successful, he started doubting himself and his talent which landed him in a deep depression, forcing him to take some time off until 2005, when he began work on another album. A second Christmas EP,
My Christmas Project
, followed in 2006.
In 2007, Bryan White sang the song "God of Wonders" on Time Life's Songs 4 Worship Country CD and joined a cast of other popular artists for the collaborative project "Major Rising" to benefit The Melodical Hearts Foundation, the Oklahoma Children's Research Hospital, and many other artist-supported charitable organizations. The song was released on April 5, 2008.
A new album,
Dustbowl Dreams
, was slated for a mid-2008 release date,
[3] but only a five-song EP entitled
Out of the Storm
, containing five of the twelve songs from that album, was released.
[4] White released a new single, "The Little Things", in July 2009.
Discography
References
- There will be lots of picking at Macon's Bluegrass Jam
- Bryan's Testimony - Review
- Career Updates & Promo
- Out of the Storm - Review