Dave Haywood
| Dave Haywood | |
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| Birth name | David Wesley Haywood |
| Born |
July 5, 1982 Augusta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Genres | Country |
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| Instruments | |
| Years active | 2006 – present |
| Labels | Capitol Nashville |
| Associated acts | |
| Website | www |
David Wesley "Dave" Haywood (born July 5, 1982) is an American country musician and songwriter. He is one-third of the band Lady Antebellum, in which he plays guitar, piano and mandolin, and sings backing vocals.
Haywood's father, Van, is a dental instructor/dentist who invented a teeth-whitening method(originally discovered by Dr. Bill Klusmeier) and his mother Angie is a teacher. Both are involved in music in their church.
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.
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. Haywood first met Charles Kelley at Riverside Middle School in Evans, Georgia. 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. Haywood formed the country music group Lady Antebellum in 2006 in Nashville, TN along with Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott.
Besides writing for Lady Antebellum, Haywood co-wrote Luke Bryan's 2009 single "Do I" and the track "Love Song" on Miranda Lambert's album Revolution. In 2004, he engineered and produced, co-wrote and sang harmony vocals on a CD for Mary Bragg titled Certain Simple Things.
In 2005, Haywood would meet up with Kelley, his old middle school classmate, every other weekend in Atlanta, Georgia 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 and moved to Nashville 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 led 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.
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