Jay DeMarcus

A local of Columbus, OH, Rascal Flatts bassist and tranquility vocalist Stanley Wayne DeMarcus, Jr. — aka Jay DeMarcus — was created on Apr 26, 1971, and treasured music from an early on age, that was at least partly because of having musician parents. He and his second cousin Gary LeVox would positively take part in their regular family jam periods, and as time passes DeMarcus learned how exactly to enjoy acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards, and mandolin, among additional instruments. He loaded up and relocated from Ohio to Nashville in 1992 to possess his hands at a music profession, and soon have scored his initial record deal within the Christian group East to Western world. They released a self-titled record in 1993, but ultimately that group fizzled, and DeMarcus shifted to try out with country superstar Chely Wright’s music group. Privately, he was also gigging within a Nashville membership with his vocalist cousin LeVox, whom he’d previously persuaded to give up his job back to go and pursue music. One evening, that aspect band’s guitarist didn’t present, therefore DeMarcus asked Joe Don Rooney, one of is own mates in Wright’s group, to sit down in. That functionality was all it had taken to start to see the trio acquired something special jointly, as well as the multi-platinum offering country-pop group Rascal Flatts had been delivered. The group’s debut self-titled record made an appearance in 2000 via Lyric Road Information, a label possessed with the Walt Disney Firm. In 2004, DeMarcus wedded beauty queen Allison Alderson (a previous Miss Tennessee titleholder). He also created Chicago’s 2006 record, Chicago XXX.