Jace Everett (January 2008)

Jace Everett, whose real name is Beasley, is a native of Evansville, Indiana but his father's jobs kept his family on the move; Jace spent his early years in Indianapolis, Indiana & St. Louis, Missouri before moving to Fort Worth, Texas at the age of six.

While in Texas, Jace learned about his country music roots in church & started playing country music in his church & in school concerts.

While he was growing up, Jace had musical heroes such as Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings and also developed a love for blues, gospel & rock 'n' roll music.  This deep love of music prompted Jace to begin playing guitar at the age of fifteen.

While attending the Methodist Church, Jace contemplated becoming an evangelist.  After graduating from high school, he moved to Nashville in 1990 & attended Belmont University.  After dropping out of Belmont, Jace flew to Europe to play & tour with a rock music band.

While playing with a band in Monaco, Jace met Patricia who became his wife & they had a son named Jacques.  Jace & his new family relocated to Texas, where Jace worked construction & quite the music business in order to spend time with Patricia & Jacques.  However, Jace & Patricia divorced in 2000 & she & Jacques returned to Monaco.

Jace's guitar player friend Chris Raspante persuaded him to get his life back on track musically & move back to Nashville.  Jace was signed, with the help of Tracy Gershon, to the Epic/Sony label who released his self-titled debut album in February 2006, an album that contained his debut single 'That's the kind of love I'm in' along with the follow-up single 'Bad things'.

Tracy Gershon at Epic/Sony was also the song publisher for writer Stephany Delray who Jace married in August 2005.  Stephany, who had moved to Nashville in 1989 in order to become an artist in her own right, achieved hit songs recorded by Radney Foster & Chely Wright; Stephany helped Jace write four of the tracks on his self-titled debut album

Jace Everett accompanied Dierks Bentley to the UK & Ireland during January 2006 for a three-day showcase in Dublin, Glasgow & London which was sponsored by the Country Music Association.  This 'New from Nashville' concert series was part of the CMA's continuing effort to expand the country music genre beyond the USA.

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