John Rich

John Rich born January 7 1974 is an American country music singersongwriter Hes best known for the country duo Big Rich From 1992 to 1998 he was a member of the country band Lonestar in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist After departing from the band in 1998 he embarked on a solo career on BNA Records in the late 1990s releasing two singles for the label and recording Underneath the Same Moon which was not released until 2006 In 2001 he selfreleased Rescue Me an album he was inspired to record by a cancer patient named Katie Darnell By 2003 he joined Big Kenny to form the duo Big Rich who released three albums on Warner Bros Records as well as ten singles including the Number One Lost in This Moment After Big Rich went on hiatus in 2007 he began work on a third solo album Son of a Preacher Man which has produced two more chart singles In 2011 Rich released two extended plays Rich Rocks and For the Kids before reestablishing Big Rich in 2012 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia