Django Walker
Walker in 2014
Background information
Birth name	Django Cody Walker
Born	(1981-08-28) August 28, 1981 (age 42)
Occupation(s)	singer-songwriter
Years active	1997–present

Django Walker (born August 28, 1981^[1]) is a Texas Country singer-songwriter and the frontman for the Django Walker Band.^[2]

Biography

Named after Belgian guitarist Django Reinhardt,^[1] Walker is the son of country music artist Jerry Jeff Walker and Susan Walker.^[2] He began learning to play guitar at age 15.^[2] After graduating from Austin High School in 1999,^[3] he attended the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts from 1999 to 2001, but did not graduate.^[1] He has said the experience made him "a better musician", but also says he learned much more traveling out on the road.^[4]

Career

When he was 16, Walker wrote his first song, "The Road You Choose", and performed it on stage at his father's shows.^[2] His father recorded it on his 1999 CD, Gypsy Songman,^[5] and Django later released his own recording of it.

His band's debut CD, Down the Road, produced by Lloyd Maines,^[2] was released in 2002.^[1] Walker released the CD on a label he formed himself, Lazy Kid Music.^[4] He recorded the CD in five days, and wrote all but one of the songs himself.^[4] One of those songs, "Texas on my Mind", was previously recorded by Pat Green,^[2] and reached number 1 on the Texas Music Chart.^[6] Walker had written the song while a student at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.^[7][8] Dad's 1999 album "Gypsy Songman" contains the autobiographical father to son tune "Little Man".

Walker's second CD, Six Trips Around the World,^[2][9] was released in 2006. It was produced by Mark Bryan of Hootie and the Blowfish, and recorded at Bryan's home in South Carolina.^[8][10]

Musical style

Walker has cited several different influences for his musical style, including popular rock artists The Beatles, Bob Dylan,^[11] The Allman Brothers, Tom Petty, Neil Young,^[3] as well as country artists Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson,^[2] Pat Green, Robert Earl Keen,^[3] Guy Clark,^[9] and Townes Van Zandt.^[11] Reviewers have described his style as "unique country",^[11] "country/rocker",^[3] and "classic rock with undertones of good old Southern comfort".^[2]

Personal

Walker attended Austin High School in Austin, Texas, graduating in 1999.^[3] He played on the varsity basketball team,^[12] and, while studying in England, played semi-professional basketball.^[7][8]

References

External links

• "www.djangowalker.com". Archived from the original on September 9, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)