Luke Laird
Country, Composer
1978 –
Who is Luke Laird?
Luke Robert Laird is a Grammy award-winning American music Songwriter and Producer. His fourteen #1 Billboard singles include Carrie Underwood’s “So Small”, “Last Name", “Temporary Home”, and “Undo It”, Blake Shelton’s “Hillbilly Bone” featuring Trace Adkins, Sara Evans’s “A Little Bit Stronger”, Rodney Atkins’s “Take a Back Road”, Eric Church’s “Drink in My Hand”, Little Big Town's "Pontoon", Hunter Hayes' "Somebody's Heartbreak" and Chris Young’s “You”. He has also written and produced songs for Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Kacey Musgraves, Toby Keith, Ne-Yo, Luke Bryan, John Legend, Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker, and many others.
After graduating from Grove City Area High School, Laird moved to Tennessee in 1997 and attended Middle Tennessee State University. In December 2001 he graduated from MTSU with a degree in Recording Industry Management, then became an assistant tour manager for Brooks & Dunn while seeking a contract as a songwriter. In 2002 he signed a publishing deal with Bertelsmann Music Group Publishing and landed his first cut on Lee Ann Womack's There's More Where That Came From album with a song titled "Painless" co-written with Bill Luther and Hillary Lindsey.
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- Born
- 1978
Hartstown - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Middle Tennessee State University
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on July 23, 2013
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