{{short description|American country music singer (1971–2018)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Daryle Singletary | image = Daryle Singletary (3466853199).jpg | caption = Singletary performing at the Grand Ole Opry in 2007 | birth_name = Daryle Bruce Singletary | birth_place = Cairo, Georgia, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date|1971|3|10}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|2|12|1971|3|10}} | death_place = Lebanon, Tennessee, U.S. | instrument = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar}} | genre = Country | occupation = Singer | spouse = * {{marriage|Kerry Harvick|1995|}} * {{marriage|Holly Mercer|2003|2018}} | years_active = 1994–2018 | label = {{hlist|Giant|Audium|Shanachie|E1 Music}} }} '''Daryle Bruce Singletary''' (March 10, 1971–February 12, 2018) was an American country music singer. Between 1995 and 1998, he recorded for Giant Records, for which he released three studio albums, ''Daryle Singletary'' (1995), ''All Because of You'' (1996), and ''Ain't It the Truth'' (1998). In the same timespan, Singletary entered the Top 40 of the Hot Country Songs charts five times, reaching No. 2 with "I Let Her Lie" and "Amen Kind of Love", and No. 4 with "Too Much Fun".
In 2000, Singletary switched to Audium Entertainment (now part of MNRK Music Group), where he released the albums ''Now and Again'' (2000) and ''That's Why I Sing This Way'' (2002), both of which were largely composed of cover songs. A third album of covers, ''Straight from the Heart'' (2007), was issued on the independent Shanachie Records label. He returned to E1 Music in 2010, to release ''Rockin' in the Country''.
==Early life== Daryle Singletary was born March 10, 1971, in Cairo, Georgia.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daryle-singletary-mn0000573100/biography|title=Daryle Singletary biography|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|work=Allmusic|access-date=October 1, 2018}}</ref> His father, Roger Singletary,<ref name="Te"/> was a postal worker, while his mother, Anita,<ref name="Te"/> was a hair dresser.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Betts |first1=Stephan |title=Daryle Singletary, Nineties Honky-Tonk Singer, Dead at 46 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/daryle-singletary-nineties-honky-tonk-singer-dead-at-46-204232/ |access-date=18 November 2018 |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=February 2, 2018}}</ref> At an early age, he sang gospel music with his cousins and brother. Later on, in high school, he began taking vocal classes as well. In 1990, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in pursuit of a record deal.<ref name="Te">{{cite news |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/02/12/daryle-singletary-dead-46/328887002/|title=Country singer Daryle Singletary dead at 46 |newspaper=The Tennessean |date=February 12, 2018 |last=Thanki |first=Juli}}</ref>
In Nashville, he found work singing during open-mic nights at various venues, before finding work as a demo singer. One of the demos that Singletary sang was "An Old Pair of Shoes", which Randy Travis eventually recorded.<ref name="allmusic"/> Travis recommended Singletary to his management team, who helped him sign to a recording contract with Giant Records.<ref name="allmusic"/>
==Career== ===1995–1996: Self-titled album=== Singletary's self-titled debut album was released in 1995. The lead-off single, "I'm Living Up to Her Low Expectations", spent one week in the Top 40 on the ''Billboard'' country charts, peaking at No. 39. It was followed by his biggest hit, the No. 2 "I Let Her Lie". This album also produced the No. 4 "Too Much Fun" and finally "Working It Out" at No. 50. Despite the two Top Five hits it produced, the album sold poorly and reached No. 44 on Top Country Albums. The album was produced by David Malloy, James Stroud and Randy Travis.
===1996–1997: ''All Because of You''=== A second album for Giant, ''All Because of You'', was released in 1996. Although its lead-off single "Amen Kind of Love" became his second No. 2 hit that year, the album's other two tracks — "The Used to Be's" and "Even the Wind" — both fell short of Top 40, peaking at number 48 and 68 respectively.
===1998–1999: ''Ain't It the Truth''=== ''Ain't It the Truth'', his third and final album for Giant, produced a minor hit in "The Note", which peaked at No. 28 on the country charts and No. 90 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Despite this song's minor crossover success, however, this album also saw its second and third singles miss the Top 40, and Singletary was dropped from Giant's roster.
===2000–2001: ''Now and Again''=== In 2000, Singletary signed to Audium/Koch Entertainment to release his fourth album, 2000's ''Now and Again''. This album's lead-off single was a cover of Savage Garden's 1999 pop single "I Knew I Loved You". Following it were "I've Thought of Everything" at No. 70, and the album's title track, which failed to chart.
===2002–2003: ''That's Why I Sing This Way''=== His second album for Audium/Koch, ''That's Why I Sing This Way'', was mostly a cover album save for the title track. Both "That's Why I Sing This Way" and a cover of Conway Twitty's "I'd Love to Lay You Down" were released from this album, respectively reaching No. 47 and No. 43.
===2003–2018: Later years=== After Audium/Koch closed its country division, Singletary signed to Shanachie Records. His first project for the label was a second album, 2007's ''Straight from the Heart'', which was also largely composed of cover songs. Its singles, "I Still Sing This Way" and "Jesus & Bartenders", both failed to chart.
In 2009, Singletary returned to Koch under the label's new name of E1 Music. He released his next single, "Love You With the Lights On" in February. The single was the lead-off single to a new album, ''Rockin' in the Country'', released in June 2009.
==Personal life== In 1995, Singletary married Kerry Harvick, also a country music singer and songwriter.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/111792333/ | title=An amen kind of year | work=The Tennessean | date=February 15, 1997 | accessdate=December 30, 2025 | author=Robert K. Oermann | pages=1D}}</ref> By 2003, he had separated from Harvick and married Holly Mercer, a nurse originally from Waycross, Georgia.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/112703379/ | title=Holly Mercer, Daryle Singletary | work=The Tennessean | date=August 3, 2003 | accessdate=December 30, 2025 | pages=33}}</ref>
Singletary died unexpectedly at his home in Lebanon, Tennessee,<ref name="allmusic"/> on the morning of February 12, 2018. The cause of death was not revealed.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fernandez |first=Matt|title=Country Singer Daryle Singletary Dies at 46|url=https://variety.com/2018/music/news/country-singer-daryle-singletary-dead-dies-at-46-1202695314/|date=February 12, 2018 |access-date=February 12, 2018 |publisher=Variety}}</ref> Later that same year, Platinum Records Nashville released a posthumous single titled "She's Been Cheatin' on Us". Although the label announced that the song's proceeds were to benefit his family, a representative of the singer stated that no such fund existed, and that the recording was a demo that was never meant to be released.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theboot.com/daryle-singletary-last-song-cease-and-desist/|title=POSTHUMOUSLY RELEASED DARYL SINGLETARY SONG CAUSES LEGAL DRAMA|last=Stecker|first=Liv|work=The Boot|date=16 February 2018 |access-date=19 February 2018}}</ref>
==Discography== ===Studio albums=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"| Title ! rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"| Album details ! colspan="3"| Peak chart positions |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="45"| US Country<br><ref>{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=daryle singletary|chart=Country Albums C}}|title=Daryle Singletary Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=December 11, 2010}}</ref> ! width="45"| US<br><ref>{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=daryle singletary|chart=Billboard 200}}|title=Daryle Singletary Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=December 11, 2010}}</ref> ! width="45"| US<br>Heat<br><ref name="Heatseekers">Peak chart positions for albums charting on ''Billboard'' Top Heatseekers: * {{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7g4EAAAAMBAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7g4EAAAAMBAJ/page/n2 3]|title=Billboard's Heatseekers Album Chart|date=January 27, 1996|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=August 17, 2011}} * {{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2Q4EAAAAMBAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2Q4EAAAAMBAJ/page/n6 7]|title=Billboard's Heatseekers Album Chart|date=March 21, 1998|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=August 17, 2011}}</ref> |- ! scope="row"| ''Daryle Singletary'' | * Release date: May 23, 1995 * Label: Giant Nashville * Formats: CD, cassette | 44 | — | 27 |- ! scope="row"| ''All Because of You'' | * Release date: October 8, 1996 * Label: Giant Nashville * Formats: CD, cassette | 60 | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''Ain't It the Truth'' | * Release date: February 24, 1998 * Label: Giant Nashville * Formats: CD, cassette | 18 | 160 | 7 |- ! scope="row"| ''That's Why I Sing This Way'' | * Release date: April 23, 2002 * Label: Audium/Koch Records * Formats: CD | 65 | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''Straight from the Heart'' | * Release date: February 27, 2007 * Label: Shanachie Records * Formats: CD, music download | 74 | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''Rockin' in the Country'' | * Release date: June 9, 2009 * Label: E1 Music * Formats: CD, music download | — | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''There's Still a Little Country Left'' | * Release date: July 28, 2015 * Label: TMF x 4 LLC * Formats: CD, music download | — | — | — |- | colspan="5" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |- |}
===Collaboration albums=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"| Title ! rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"| Details ! colspan="2"| Peak chart positions ! rowspan="2" style="width:8em;"| Sales |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="40"| US Grass<br><ref name="Bluegrass Albums">{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=daryle singletary|chart=Bluegrass Albums}}|title=Daryle Singletary Album & Song Chart History - Bluegrass Albums|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> ! width="40"| US Country<br><ref name="Country Albums">{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=daryle singletary|chart=Country Albums C}}|title=Daryle Singletary Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |- ! scope="row"| ''American Grandstand''<br><small>(with Rhonda Vincent)</small> | * Release date: July 7, 2017 * Label: Upper Management * Formats: CD, music download | 1 | 45 | *US: 10,900<ref>{{cite news |url=http://roughstock.com/news/2018/02/42806-top-10-country-album-sales-chart-february-19-2018 |title=Top 10 Country Album Sales Chart: February 19, 2018 |first=Matt |last=Bjorke |date=February 20, 2018 |work=Roughstock |accessdate=February 25, 2018 |archive-date=March 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329165632/http://roughstock.com/news/2018/02/42806-top-10-country-album-sales-chart-february-19-2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- |}
===Compilation albums=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! style="width:16em;"| Title ! style="width:18em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"| ''Now and Again'' | * Release date: July 11, 2000 * Label: Audium/Koch Records * Formats: CD, cassette |- ! scope="row"| ''Live In Concert'' | * Release date: March 16, 2007 * Label: Big Band Concert Series * Formats: CD |}
===Singles=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2" style="width:26em;"| Single ! colspan="3"| Peak chart positions ! rowspan="2"| Album |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="45"| US Country<br><ref name="Country Songs">{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=daryle singletary|chart=Country Songs}}|title=Daryle Singletary Album & Song Chart History - Country Songs|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=December 11, 2010}}</ref> ! width="45"| US<br><ref>{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=daryle singletary|chart=Hot 100}}|title=Daryle Singletary Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=December 11, 2010}}</ref> ! width="45"| CAN Country<br><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=07e7e3cu1rso6pq851nduvi8v0&q1=daryle+singletary&q2=Country+Singles&interval=20|title=Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Singles|work=RPM|access-date=December 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023212158/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=07e7e3cu1rso6pq851nduvi8v0&q1=daryle+singletary&q2=Country+Singles&interval=20|archive-date=October 23, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | rowspan="3"| 1995 ! scope="row"| "I'm Living Up to Her Low Expectations" | 39 | — | 35 | align="left" rowspan="4"| ''Daryle Singletary'' |- ! scope="row"| "I Let Her Lie" | 2 | — | 2 |- ! scope="row"| "Too Much Fun" | 4 | — | 10 |- | rowspan="2"| 1996 ! scope="row"| "Workin' It Out" | 50 | — | 56 |- ! scope="row"| "Amen Kind of Love" | 2 | — | 2 | align="left" rowspan="3"| ''All Because of You'' |- | rowspan="3"| 1997 ! scope="row"| "The Used to Be's" | 48 | — | 85 |- ! scope="row"| "Even the Wind" | 68 | — | — |- ! scope="row"| "The Note" | 28 | 90 | 70 | align="left" rowspan="3"| ''Ain't It the Truth'' |- | rowspan="2"| 1998 ! scope="row"| "That's Where You're Wrong" | 49 | — | — |- ! scope="row"| "My Baby's Lovin'" | 44 | — | 88 |- | rowspan="2"| 2000 ! scope="row"| "I Knew I Loved You" | 55 | — | — | align="left" rowspan="3"| ''Now and Again'' |- ! scope="row"| "I've Thought of Everything" | 70 | — | — |- | 2001 ! scope="row"| "Now and Again" | — | — | — |- | rowspan="2"| 2002 ! scope="row"| "That's Why I Sing This Way" | 47 | — | — | align="left" rowspan="2"| ''That's Why I Sing This Way'' |- ! scope="row"| "I'd Love to Lay You Down" | 43 | — | — |- | rowspan="2"| 2007 ! scope="row"| "I Still Sing This Way" | — | — | — | align="left" rowspan="2"| ''Straight from the Heart'' |- ! scope="row"| "Jesus & Bartenders" | — | — | — |- | 2009 ! scope="row"| "Love You With the Lights On" | — | — | — | align="left"| ''Rockin' in the Country'' |- | 2015 ! scope="row"| "Spilled Whiskey" | — | — | — | align="left"| ''There's Still a Little Country Left'' |- | 2016 ! scope="row"| "We're Not Going to Hell for Having a Hell of a Time"<ref>{{cite web|title=Daryle Singletary – We're Not Going To Hell For Having A Hell Of A Time|url=http://daily.plaympe.com/daryle-singletary-were-not-going-to-hell-for-having-a-hell-of-a-time/|work=Daily Play MPE|access-date=October 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010004158/http://daily.plaympe.com/daryle-singletary-were-not-going-to-hell-for-having-a-hell-of-a-time/|archive-date=October 10, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> | — | — | — | {{n/a}} |- | 2017 ! scope="row"| "One" {{Small|(with Rhonda Vincent)}} | — | — | — | align="left"| ''American Grandstand'' |- | 2018 ! scope="row"| "She's Been Cheatin' On Us" | — | — | — | {{n/a}} |- | colspan="6" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |- |}
===Music videos=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! Year ! style="width:20em;"| Video ! Director |- | rowspan="3"| 1995 ! scope="row"| "I'm Living Up to Her Low Expectations" | Planet Pictures/Scene Three |- ! scope="row"| "I Let Her Lie" | rowspan="2"| Steven T. Miller/R. Brad Murano |- ! scope="row"| "Too Much Fun" |- | rowspan="2"| 1996 ! scope="row"| "Workin' It Out" | rowspan="2"| Jeffrey Phillips |- ! scope="row"| "Amen Kind of Love" |- | rowspan="2"| 1997 ! scope="row"| "The Used to Be's" | Marc Ball |- ! scope="row"| "The Note" | Jim Hershleder |- | 2000 ! scope="row"| "I Knew I Loved You"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/daryle-singletary/385546/i-knew-i-loved-you.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Daryle Singletary : I Knew I Loved You|publisher=Country Music Television|access-date=October 14, 2011}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | David McClister |}
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