Craig Wiseman

Craig Wiseman
Background information
Birth name	Craig Michael Wiseman
Origin	Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States
Genres	Country
Occupation(s)	Songwriter
Years active	Late 1980s-present
Associated acts	Phil Vassar, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Roy Orbison, Blake Shelton

Craig Michael Wiseman is an American country music songwriter. Actively writing since the late 1980s, he has had his songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Dolly Parton, Blake Shelton, and numerous other acts. He has written twenty-six #1 songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs music charts, and has won a number of industry awards. In 2009 he was named "Songwriter of the Decade" by the Nashville Songwriters Association International, and in 2015, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Michael Wiseman was born and raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in. He began playing music while still a child, and later began playing drums professionally. In 1985, he moved to Nashville in 1985 to pursue a career in songwriting.

At age 24 he had his first chart success with the track "The Only One" from Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl album. In 1990 Wiseman was signed to Almo/Irving Music, where he wrote a number of hits. In 1997 he was named "Writer of the Year" by both Music Row and the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).

Wiseman signed to a new publishing contract with BMG Music Publishing in 2000. During his three years at BMG, he wrote or co-wrote 22 singles, among them "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" with British pop star Beverley Knight. In 2002 Billboard magazine named him a 2002 Top 2 Country Songwriter.

In conjunction with his focus on songwriting, Wiseman opened his own publishing company, Big Loud Shirt, in the fall of 2003 . The first hit single in their catalog was "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw in 2005, which won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song and was named NSAI Song Of The Year, CMA Song of the Year, and ACM Song of the Year. Wiseman continues his songwriting success, sharing it with other company writers Chris Tompkins, Rodney Clason, Sarah Buxton, Matt Dragstrem and the Warren Brothers.

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