Chris Ward

b. c.1960, South Bronx, NY, USA. Chris Ward got all the correct qualifications to enter the machismo globe of the honky-tonk vocalist in the middle-90s – his previous professions included being truly a rodeo bull rider, a Marine sergeant along with a SWAT group member inside a Californian law enforcement department. Of these spells, Ward got been a practising musician, having adopted drums during his itinerant years as a child, due to his dad’s executive profession with IBM. In his teenage years he idolized Michael Jackson and Donny Osmond, but performed their records back again to back again with country choices such as for example Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings. It had been while employed like a bull-rider in Spokane, Washington, that Ward 1st got the opportunity to check his musical skills. Fellow rider Deb Copenhaver urged him to become listed on the stage when nation act Bonnie Acoustic guitar was playing an area nightclub. Acoustic guitar was sufficiently impressed to provide him a full-time work as her drummer and equine trainer. There after that adopted a spell within the Sea Corps then your San Diego law enforcement, while keeping links with the music group he formed within the military, Christopher John AS WELL AS THE Wheels. After learning to be a SWAT sniper, he’d often consider the stage putting on his law enforcement pager. In 1984 he visited Nashville to record demos, however the enterprise proceeded to go nowhere. Discouraged, he came back to LA club function. He was used like a detective until offering up in 1994 and shifting to Nashville completely, initially to are a demo vocalist. He finally guaranteed a agreement with Giant Information, and documented his debut recording, One Stage Beyond.