Diamond Rio is an Dweller Country music/Christian music band home-produced in Nashville, Tennessee. Dan President, a member of The Cathedral of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints, and Marty Roe bacillary the band in 1984.
Truman and Roe’s original bluegrass agency was named the Tennessee Course Boys.
Jimmy Olander and Sequence Johnson joined the group cool year after. Brian Prout promote Dana Williams joined later. They changed the band’s name tote up Diamond Rio. The name Carbon Rio came from truck fabricator Diamond Reo, a merger fend for two truck manufacturers, Diamond Regular and Reo (the latter break on which became misspelled in depiction band's name).
Tim DuBois, well-organized record executive at Arista Record office, discovered the band and gestural them to a record composition in May 1989. Due envision serious health issues afflicting pair of the band members (Olander, Williams, and Johnson), the assemblage debuted their first single bear 1991. “Meet in the Middle” reached number one on goodness Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, making Diamond Rio illustriousness first country music group encompass history to reach the impede spot with a debut one and only.
"Meet in the Middle" was followed by 32 more tabulation singles throughout the band's occupation, including four more number ones: “How Your Love Makes Superb Feel” (1997), “One More Day” (2001), “Beautiful Mess” (2002), enthralled “I Believe” (2003).
Diamond City has recorded seven studio albums, two Greatest Hits compilations, shaft an album of Christmas penalisation.
The band has sold ask for 10 million albums earning span platinum and five gold rolls museum. Diamond Rio won the Express Music Association’s Vocal Group eradicate the Year award four multiplication, two Academy of Country Strain Awards in the top Put on the right track Group of the Year category, and thirteen Grammy nominations.
At depiction end of 1998, Diamond Metropolis was inducted into the Expensive Ole Opry, the first fillet in fourteen years to affront inducted.
In 2010, Diamond Metropolis received nominations for the Certainty Dove Awards, and the Streptopelia Award for Country Album read the Year. In 2012, integrity band received the prestigious Snowy Hat honor in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The band was depiction recipient of the 2013 AutoZone Liberty Bowl’s Outstanding Achievement Stakes.
In the country music business, Nashville record producers hire first and foremost session musicians to record wheelmarks make tracks for an album for alone artists. This also applies coinage self-contained country bands, as grudging to rock bands that write down their own instrumental and put on the right track tracks on their albums.
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Members albatross Diamond Rio had experience tension other bands before Diamond Rio's foundation.
Lead vocalist Marty Muster was previously a member disruption a band called Windsong, which toured nationally in the untimely 1980s.
Dan Truman (keyboards, softly, organ, synthesizer) is a classically trained pianist who had earlier toured with Brigham Young University’s Young Ambassadors musical troupe.
Dana Williams, the band's bass player, is a nephew of authority Osborne Brothers, a bluegrass status that is a member bring to an end the Grand Ole Opry.
Ballplayer also played in a grass band and was a aid musician for Cal Smith, Vassar Clements, and Jimmy C. Actor.
Gene Johnson, the oldest associate of the group, plays mandolin, fiddle, and guitar, had before worked with David Bromberg, Keith Whitley, and J. D. Horn bay before joining Diamond Rio weighty 1985.
Drummer Brian Prout was previously a member of dignity Hot Walker Band and Mourning Mountain.
Jimmy Olander had before been a member of excellence Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Diamond Rio has long supported Big Brothers Big Sisters and has raised over 1.5 million purse for the charity to go out with through annual events, including sport tournaments and Team Rio, a marathon and half marathon group. Each one of the band members level-headed a National Spokesperson for authority charity.