Darius Rucker famously pivoted to nation music in 2008, and the musician is sharing his ideas on Beyoncé making her nation debut with Cowboy Carter.
“I’m glad for her. I’m glad for the style,” Rucker, 57, solely advised Us Weekly whereas selling his upcoming memoir and tour. “The eyes that she delivered to nation music went up, and that’s all the time a very good factor when you might have extra individuals watching nation music.”
The Hootie and the Blowfish frontman added: “I hope what she’s completed translate[s] much more than it already has to extra individuals of colour getting a shot at nation music.”
Beyoncé, 42, made historical past as the primary Black lady to high the Scorching Nation Songs chart with the album’s lead single “Texas Maintain ‘Em.” Cowboy Carter, which she launched on March 29, shortly topped the charts, changing into Beyoncé’s eighth No. 1 album. The Grammy-winning famous person paid homage to the Black ladies of nation music and the historical past of nation generally all through the report, with a slew of star-studded options in addition to historic samples and interpolations.
Rick Diamond/Getty Pictures for the Nation Music Corridor of Fame and Museum Darius Rucker, Mickey Guyton and extra Black nation artists have been candid concerning the racism they’ve confronted within the style. When Rucker made the transition from the frontman for the rock band Hootie and the Blowfish to nation famous person, he needed to […]
Notably, “Spaghettii” and “The Linda Martell Present” embody cameos from Linda Martell, who’s extensively thought of to be the primary commercially profitable Black feminine nation artist.
Darius Rucker, Beyoncé Tibrina Hobson/Getty Pictures(2);Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood
“I really feel honored to be the primary Black lady with the primary single on the Scorching Nation Songs chart. That may not have occurred with out the outpouring of assist from every one in every of you,” Beyoncé wrote through Instagram in March. “My hope is that years from now, the point out of an artist’s race, because it pertains to releasing genres of music, can be irrelevant.”
Rucker can be a pioneer within the nation music area and an advocate for individuals of colour within the style. After taking a hiatus from his band Hootie and the Blowfish and signing with Capitol Nashville in 2008, he made his nation debut with Be taught to Dwell. The next 12 months, Rucker grew to become the primary Black American to win New Artist of the 12 months on the Nation Music Awards and solely the second Black individual ever to win a CMA.
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He broke information as soon as once more when he took house the Grammy for Finest Nation Solo Efficiency in 2014 for “Wagon Wheel,” changing into the third Black recording act to win a vocal efficiency Grammy Award for nation music.
Rucker nonetheless strikes forwards and backwards between genres. After he finishes his run of European live shows for his solo music, he’ll reunite with Hootie and the Blowfish for his or her Summer season Camp With Vehicles Tour, which kicks off Could 30 in Texas. The band’s summer time tour begins proper after Rucker’s memoir, Life’s Too Quick, hits bookstands on Could 28.
With reporting by Leanne Aciz Stanton
