Danny Myrick
From gospel singer to lead singer in Western Flyer, he now writes country hits.
From Pascagoula, Mississippi, Danny Myrick grew up playing bass and singing in his family's gospel band, which recorded their first album when Myrick was seven years old. Because his parents worked at the church, Myrick opened for gospel quartets every weekend. He achieved his first number-one gospel song as a writer at 17 when the Dixie Melody Boys quartet recorded the song "Jesus Is The Light."
Once he graduated from high school, he moved to Nashville and tried to pursue a career in music. He was unsuccessful at first but soon joined his friend Chris Marion in a six-man vocal group where he was lead vocalist, bassist, and songwriter for Western Flyer. Together they made two CDs and had several songs become top 40 hits. In Atlanta in 1995, they were the first band to play at the Martin Luther King Day festivities that was not made up of African-American musicians.
In 2002, Myrick recommitted himself to performing and songwriting and ran into an old friend of his, Jeffrey Steele, who helped Myrick sign his first publishing contract with Windswept Pacific. Over the years Myrick wrote music for Steele's SoulRide Music and Root 49 Music and more. Since then he has celebrated numerous hit songs such as Craig Morgan's "International Harvester," 2009's most played country song "She's Country" by Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw's "Truck Yeah," and more.
