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Description: Gary Allan (born Gary Allan Herzberg on December 5, 1967[1]) is an American country music singer. To date, Gary has recorded six studio albums and a Greatest Hits package, in addition to scoring nine (More) Gary Allan (born Gary Allan Herzberg on December 5, 1967[1]) is an American country music singer. To date, Gary has recorded six studio albums and a Greatest Hits package, in addition to scoring nine Top Ten hits (three of which reached Number One) on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Personal Life Allan is the son of Harley and Mary Herzberg.[2] He was raised in Whittier, California. To ensure that the family would focus on music, Allan's mother insisted that the family guitars remain visible. At age thirteen, Allan began playing in honky tonks with his father.[3][1] Two years later he was offered his first recording contract, but rejected the deal. His father felt that Allan had not developed his own distinctive style yet, and they wanted him to finish his education.[3][4] Despite his commitment to finishing school, Allan reflects that he was rarely alert in class. "I played the bars at night, I was half asleep when I got to school. I thought sleep was what you did when you got to school."[4] He continued to play in the bars with his band, the Honky Tonk Wranglers. Many of the venues they played were packed, and promoters often tried to move them to larger clubs. The moves would have required him to stop playing some of the older country music, such as covers of George Jones songs, so Allan refused.[3] After his high school graduation, Allan took a job selling cars. He left a demo tape in the glove box of a car purchased by a wealthy couple. When they discovered that he was the singer, they immediately wrote him a check for $12,000 so that he could chase his dream. Six weeks later he moved to Nashville. After signing a record deal he repaid the couple.[4] In 2004, Gary's wife, Angela Herzberg, committed suicide in their Hendersonville, Tennessee home. She was buried in her hometown in Cleburne, Texas. Career Used Heart for Sale His first deal, with Decca Records, produced the 1996 album Used Heart for Sale.[1] The album was named "Best of the Month" by Stereo Review.[5] It advanced to the top 20 of the charts, and produced a Top 10 country hit with the track "Her Man". Other tracks from the album, however, proved less successful. It Would Be You His second album,"It Would Be You," was released in 1998. Although Allan had been writing songs since he was a teenager,[4] he does not hesitate to bump his work from his albums in favor of those written by other songwriters he respects. For his second album, Allan replaced one of his songs with "No Judgement Day", written by Allen Shamblin. Although the song was a hidden acoustic track, radio stations began giving it heavy airplay, and it became a single.[4] The title track of the album became Allan's second top 10 hit of the year, remaining in the top 10 after 21 weeks of radio play, "way beyond the tenure of most disposable radio hits."[5] At the beginning of 1999, Decca Records folded, and when Allan moved to the parent label, MCA Nashville, It Would be You was left in limbo.[3] Allan was labeled "Country Music's Sexy Star" by People Magazine. He also delved into the acting world in the TV mini-series Shake, Rattle, & Roll, playing the lead role of Eddie Cochran. He followed that role with a part in the CBS TV series Pensacola - Wings of Gold, but describes his acting experience as "tedious."[4] Smoke Rings in the Dark In 1999, Allan released Smoke Rings in the Dark,[1] an album he recorded while in the midst of a divorce from his second wife, Versace model Danette Day after only seven months of marriage.[4] Unlike his first two albums, Smoke Rings in the Dark made fuller use of background singers and stringed instruments, "resulting in a lusher, fuller sound."[6] The new album avoided the "devil-may-care brashness" of the first two, instead presenting a tone balanced between youthful optimism and "the knowledge that some of life's experiences exact a high toll."[6] Smoke Rings In The Dark was certified platinum, and it included two successful singles. Alright Guy In 2001 the album Alright Guy was released.[1] It contained the single "Man To Man," which became his first Billboard No. 1 hit.[7] The same year, Allan married for the third time, to Angela, a flight attendant he met on an airplane.[8] See If I Care Despite his previous success and eight years in the music business, Allan was nominated for the Country Music Association's Horizon Award, typically given to newcomers, in 2003. The same year he released his fifth album, See If I Care. Allan had to fight to keep the title, which he felt epitomized his attitude towards the music business, that he would continue to make the music that he wanted to make regardless of whether the record label chose to back him or people chose to buy the album.[9] See If I Care included his second and third Number One singles, "Tough Little Boys" and "Nothing On But The Radio".[7][10] "Songs About Rain" was a top 15 hit. Tough All Over In 2003, Allan and his wife, Angela Herzberg, moved to Tennessee from California with their six children (three each from previous marriages). There, they lived a few blocks from Allan's first ex-wife. On October 25, 2004, Angela Herzberg committed suicide after suffering from depression and migraines. Allan initially put his career on hold, but soon turned to music to deal with the loss of his wife. This resulted in 2005's "heart-wrenchingly personal album," Tough All Over.[8] He included several songs which he wrote or cowrote, including "Puttin' Memories Away" and "I Just Got Back From Hell," which dealt directly with his grief.[11] Tough All Over sold over 99,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the magazine's Top Country Albums chart.[11] It was subsequently certified gold by the RIAA as of December 20, 2006, and contained the top 10 singles "Best I Ever Had" (written by Vertical Horizon's Matt Scannell) and "Life Ain't Always Beautiful."[12] Greatest Hits Allan's first Greatest Hits collection was released on March 6, 2007 and debuted the following week at the top of the Billboard Country Charts. One single, "A Feelin' Like That", was released to radio and peaked at #12 on the Billboard Country Charts. Living Hard Allan's first and current single, off the Living Hard album, is "Watching Airplanes". Allan recorded the music video for "Watching Airplanes" during a live concert at the legendary open air Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO. The album will be released October 23, 2007. Sound Allan's voice is described as "raspy and unpolished."[3] The New York Times describes his music as "elegant, often deadpan songs [that] tend toward manly understatement."[13] His sound is heavily influenced by the Bakersfield scene, especially Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. He prefers this sound to that of the more pop country that is prevalent on country radio, because "the songs have got to have soul, have real meaning....Country music is...what happens during the week. Rock 'n roll is about what happens at the weekend."[4] Because his sound is different from many of the current crop of country singers, Allan has at times had difficulty getting radio to play his singles. He says he has to "walk a real fine line" to "make sure that I get traditional stuff on the radio."[3] (Less)

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