Charles Christopher DuBois is a songwriter and music publisher based out of Nashville, Tennessee. DuBois began his music career as ASCAP Nashville Director of Membership in 1993. He left ASCAP in 1999 to form Sea Gayle Music with business partners Brad Paisley and Frank Rogers. Since that time, Sea Gayle has become one of the most successful independent publishing companies in all of music.[1] In 2010 and 2011, Sea Gayle was named ASCAP Country Publisher of the Year. It was the first time since 1982 that an independent publishing company had won that award. In 2009, Sea Gayle Music launched Sea Gayle Records as an imprint of Sony Music Nashville.[2]
As a songwriter, DuBois has had more than 30 Top 20 singles including 17 songs that have reached No. 1. DuBois has been the recipient of over 30 ASCAP awards and in 2004 was named ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year.[3] DuBois was also named NSAI Songwriter of the Year for 2010 and 2011.[4]
DuBois began serving as Paisley's executive producer in 2005 on the album Time Well Wasted which won ACM and CMA awards for Album of the Year.[5][6] DuBois has continued his role as executive producer for the Paisley albums 5th Gear, American Saturday Night, This is Country Music, Wheelhouse and Moonshine in the Trunk. Chris also co-produced the breakout WB debut album for Chris Janson and “Fix a Drink” from the Chris Janson album ‘’Everybody’’.
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^Gayle Thompson. "Brad Paisley Launches New Record Label", "The Boot", November 2009. Retrieved on 2011-10-19.
^Price, Deborah Evans (November 20, 2004). “Thrasher, DuBois Top ASCAP Writers”. Billboard, p. 61.
^"NSAI" Retrieved on 2011-10-19.
^Academy of Country Music
^Country Music Association Past Winners Archived January 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2011-10-19.
Charles Christopher DuBois is a songwriter and music publisher based out of Nashville, Tennessee. DuBois began his music career as ASCAP Nashville Director...
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single and title track, "Your Man", was written by Jace Everett, ChrisDuBois and Chris Stapleton and released in late 2005. "Your Man" also climbed the...
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Justin Niebank and several Nashville-based songwriters such as ChrisDuBois, Luke Laird and Chris Stapleton, in 2013 she started her first country music project...
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First Lady Michelle Obama. The song was written by Paisley along with ChrisDuBois. "Welcome to the Future" is a mid-tempo country rock song with a production...
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the show but had to cancel after he was placed on vocal rest by doctors. Chris Stapleton won "Entertainer of the Year" for the first time. Thus, Stapleton...
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