John Corbett won over audiences playing Aidan Shaw, the down-to-earth boyfriend of Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw on "Sex and the City," and fans were ecstatic when he returned for the second season of "And Just Like That…" Before he became an actor, Corbett grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia, with his mother and stepfather.
While there, he got his first taste of the entertainment world helping out at his uncle’s club, where he first became interested in guitar.
He watched country greats like Buck Owens and Waylon Jennings perform, and eventually his mom bought him his first guitar. "My mom bought me a pawn shop cheapy guitar, you know, the kind with the strings six inches off of the fretboard, and Bob [his friend] would teach me some chords.
I guess I was about 7 or 8 when I learned to play chords," he told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal in 2011. ‘A class clown’ Corbett didn’t stay focused on a music career and later moved to Southern California to be with his father, working in a steel plant. "I wanted to believe there was something else out there for me, something I was meant to do.
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