Darius Rucker Was Told By Some Radio Stations Their ‘Audience Would Never Accept A Black Country Singer’ When He Was Starting Out In Genre
etcanada.comDarius Rucker didn’t think he’d have much success as a Black person starting out in country music all those years ago. The musician — who is set to release his first solo album in six years, Carolyn’s Boy, in October — chatted to ET Canada’s Jed Tavernier while in Niagara Falls performing at Fallsview Casino.
As Tavernier questioned whether it was “scary” for him as a person of colour branching into country after Hootie & the Blowfish, Rucker responded: “I wasn’t worried about it ’cause I just want to make records, you know?
I mean, I wasn’t sitting around going, ‘Oh my God, you know, I’m going to be the Black guy in country.'” READ MORE: Darius Rucker Freaks Out Fans By Pretending To Be A Wax Sculpture At Madame Tussauds Rucker admitted, “To be honest with you, I didn’t think I would have much success.
And when I started doing the radio stations and stuff, you know, I had people say to me, to my face, you know, ‘My audience would never accept a Black country singer.’ “That’s something that I was like, ‘Okay, just play the record, let’s see?’ And then they did.
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