Dave Haywood

Dave Haywood
Dave Haywood
Background information
Born	July 5, 1982 (1982-07-05) (age 29)[1] Augusta, Georgia[2]
Genres	Country
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals Guitar Piano
Years active	2006-present
Labels	Capitol Nashville
Associated acts	Lady Antebellum

David Wesley Haywood (born July 5, 1982 in Augusta, Georgia) is an American country music singer. He is one-third of the band Lady Antebellum, in which he plays piano, guitar and mandolin, and sings backing vocals.

Haywood's father, Van, is a dental instructor/dentist who invented a teeth-whitening method and his mother Angie is a teacher. Both are involved in music in their church.^[3]

Haywood's mother taught him to play piano and his father taught him to play guitar. Their family sang and played instruments together as he was growing up. He also sang in Trinity-on-the-Hill United Methodist Church's youth choir called Love Unlimited where he served as the president during his senior year of high school.^[4]

Dave and his family lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for about a decade when his father taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Dentistry. In 1993, the Haywood's moved back to Augusta.^[5] Haywood first met Charles Kelley at Riverside Middle School in Evans, GA. He was in a jazz band with Charles's brother Josh Kelley when he attended Lakeside High School and graduated in 2000. He attended college at the University of Georgia where he graduated in 2004.^[6] Haywood formed the country music group Lady Antebellum in 2006 in Nashville, TN along with Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott.^[7]

Besides writing for Lady Antebellum, Haywood co-wrote Luke Bryan's 2009 single "Do I"^[8] and the track "Love Song" on Miranda Lambert's album Revolution.^[9] In 2004, he engineered and produced, co-wrote and sang harmony vocals on a CD for Mary Bragg titled Certain Simple Things.^[10]

Lady Antebellum

In 2005, Haywood would meet up with Kelley, his old middle-school classmate, every other weekend in Atlanta, GA to write songs together. Kelley convinced Haywood to move to Nashville in 2006 to write songs together and to help Kelley to become a successful solo country artist. Haywood quit his job in Atlanta, GA and moved to Nashville, TN to focus on music full-time. Shortly after, Hillary Scott recognized Kelley at a bar in Nashville from Kelley's MySpace page that Haywood had created. Kelley invited Scott to join him and Haywood to write songs together which lead to them creating the new group, in which they named Lady Antebellum. Fans have since nicknamed the group Lady A. Haywood acted as the band's booking agent as they performed in bars and everywhere they could to get noticed. Haywood also created the band's first website. ^[11]

Lady Antebellum made its debut in 2007 as guest vocalists on Jim Brickman’s single “Never Alone” before signing to Capitol Records Nashville.^[12] On October 2, 2007, they released the single, "Love Don't Live Here". It peaked at Number 3 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in May 2008. Their self-titled debut album Lady Antebellumwas released on April 15, 2008. On its first week of release, it became the first album by a new duo or group to debut at Number 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.^[13] They released their second single "Lookin' for a Good Time" in June 2008 and it peaked at Number 11 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart in December 2008.

They also contributed to the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack with the song "I Was Here", which peaked at Number 24 based on downloads on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. In addition, in December 2008, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" peaked at Number 3 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. In January 2009, their third official single, "I Run to You", was released. It became the Lady Antebellum's first Number 1 in July 2009 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Their album Lady Antebellumwas certified double platinum by RIAA.^[14]

Lady Antebellum released their fourth single "Need You Now" in August 2009 which is the title track of their sophomore album Need You Now. The song became their second Number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in November 2009 and stayed on top for five weeks. It also peaked at Number 1 Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and Number 2 on Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2010. Their fifth single "American Honey" was released in January 11, 2010 and became their third Number 1 on Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in April 2010.

Their sophomore album Need You Now was released on January 26, 2010, which debuted at Number 1 on Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and Number 1 on Billboard Top 100 Albums chart with first week sales of 480,922 copies. Need You Now has since been certified 5 times platinum by RIAA.^[15]

Their sixth single, "Our Kind of Love" was released in May 2010 and became their fourth Number 1 on Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in September 2010. Their seventh single "Hello World" was released in October 2010 and peaked at Number 6 on Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in April 2011.

On May 2, 2011, they released their seventh single, "Just A Kiss", which is the first single from their third album, Own The Night. " It debuted at Number 7 on Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the highest debut for a country group in the chart's history and selling over 211,000 digital copies during its first week of release.^[16] "Just A Kiss" became their fifth Number 1 on Billboard Hot Country Songs in August 2011.

On September 13, 2011, they released their third album Own the Night, which debuted at Number 1 on Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and Number 1 on Billboard Top 100 Albums chart with first week sales of 347,479 copies.^[17]

On August 12, 2011, they have released their current and ninth single "We Owned the Night" which is the second single from the Own the Night album.^[18]

References

1. ^ "Today in History". Fox News. 5 July 2008. http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jul05/0,4670,History,00.html. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
2. ^ Zureick, Erin (14 November 2010). "Lady Antebellum: Before they were famous". Augusta Chronicle. http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-11-14/lady-antebellum-they-were-famous. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
3. ^ Thompson, Gayle (29 May 2009). "Lady Antebellum's Dave Haywood Has a Reason to Smile". The Boot. http://www.theboot.com/2009/05/29/lady-antebellums-dave-haywood-has-a-reason-to-smile/. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
4. ^ Zureick, Erin (14 November 2010). "Lady Antebellum: Before they were famous". http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-11-14/lady-antebellum-they-were-famous/. 
5. ^ http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-11-14/lady-antebellum-they-were-famous
6. ^ Zureick, Erin (14 November 2010). "Lady Antebellum: Before they were famous". http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-11-14/lady-antebellum-they-were-famous. 
7. ^ Monger, James Christopher (7 January 2008). "Lady Antebellum". http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p997587/biography. 
8. ^ Talbott, Chris (18 April 2010). "Lady A wins 2, while Lambert's 2 includes album". Sign On San Diego. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/18/lady-a-wins-2-while-lamberts-2-includes-album/. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
9. ^ "Love Song". Allmusic. http://allmusic.com/song/love-song-t17701845. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
10. ^ "Mary Bragg". http://www.marybragg.com/music/. 
11. ^ Wayland, Sarah (11 September 2011). "Backstory: Lady Antebellum to Premiere on GAC". http://blog.gactv.com/blog/2011/09/01/backstory-lady-antebellum-to-premiere-september-11th-on-gac/. 
12. ^ Films, Fresh (26 June 2007). "Never Alone - Lady Antebellum w Jim Brickman". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXrMPtCVcE. 
13. ^ Glassman, Emily (25 April 2008). "Lady Antebellum Debuts with Record-Breaking Digital Sales". http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080425005192&newsLang=en. 
14. ^ "Recording Industry Association of America". http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database. 
15. ^ Bjorke, Matt (3 February 2010). "Lady Antebellum Storms the Charts with 'Need You Now'". http://www.roughstock.com/blog/lady-antebellum-storms-the-charts-with-need-you-now-. 
16. ^ Conaway, Alanna (17 May 2011). "Lady Antebellum’s ‘Just a Kiss’ Makes Billboard Chart History". http://tasteofcountry.com/lady-antebellum-just-a-kiss-billboard-history/. 
17. ^ Morris, Edward (24 September 2011). "Lady Antebellum Album Hits No. 1 in a Big Way". http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1671301/lady-antebellum-album-hits-no-1-in-a-big-way.jhtml. 
18. ^ Dukes, Billy (15 August 2011). "Lady Antebellum, ‘We Owned the Night’ – Song Review". http://tasteofcountry.com/lady-antebellum-we-owned-the-night/. 

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Name	Haywood, Dave
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Date of birth	5 July 1982
Place of birth	Augusta, Georgia
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