Chuck
Cannon
 “AMERICAN
SOLDIER” – Toby Keith #1 (4-weeks)
"I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE ME"
#1 Country - John Michael Montgomery, ACM Song of the Year
#2 UK - Boyzone, BMI 2 Million- Air award
“
HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW” #1 (5 weeks) - Toby Keith
“
DREAMWALKIN” #1 - Toby Keith
“
WE WERE IN LOVE” #1 - Toby Keith
Chuck grew up in the low country of the South Carolina coast. His
father and grandfather were both Pentecostal preachers, so his earliest
musical influence was a unique strain of gospel music that was an
amalgam of Appalachian folk and black spirituals. He started singing
in church before he was five years old and it soon became clear that
music would be the driving passion in his life.
Chuck’s first album was Johnny Cash’s “At Folsom
Prison” and his influences include: The Beatles, The Temptations,
Smokey Robinson, the STAX stuff, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Merle
Haggard, Jim Croce, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and others too
numerous to mention.
Chuck was a solo performer on the beach
circuit for several years before moving to Nashville in 1984 to
attend Belmont University,
where he studied Music Business and Finance. In 1988 he met producer
Marshall Morgan, who signed him as a staff songwriter to Taste Auction
Music. In 1992 Chuck opened his own publishing company, Wacissa River
Music, Inc. An active champion of songwriters’ issues, he served
as President of the Nashville Songwriter’s Association International
(NSAI ’02-’03)
His recent honors include BMI’s Two-Million-Air award for
the Academy of Country Music’s 1993 Song-of-the-Year and international
hit, “I Love The Way You Love Me,” and BMI’s Million-Air
Award for the #1 hit “Me Too” written with Toby Keith.
As well, Chuck received Academy of Country Music and Country Music
Association nominations for the #1 hit “How Do You Like Me
Now,” written with country artist Toby Keith. Chuck’s
current single is “American Soldier” co-written with
artist Toby Keith, and “Flies on the Butter (You Can’t
Go Home Again)” recorded by Wynonna with Naomi Judd.
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