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|Name = Bryan White
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|Background = solo_singer
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|Origin = USA
|Instrument = Vocals, rhythm guitar
|Genre = country
|Occupation = Singer-songwriter
|Years_active = 1994-present
|Label = Asylum, Warner Bros.
|Associated_acts = Pearl River<br />Shania Twain
|URL = http://www.bryanwhite.com/
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'''Bryan White''' (born American country music singer-songwriter. White made his debut in 1994 with his eponymous debut album, which produced back-to-back Number One singles on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. His second album also produced two Number One singles, but his chart success waned soon afterward, with his last chart entry having peaked at #56.

To date, White has charted seventeen singles on the ''Billboard'' country charts, of which four reached Number One. White was also a duet partner on the album version of From This Moment On", which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. He has also recorded four studio albums, a Greatest Hits package, and three EPs.

==Biography==

White was born in Lawton, Oklahoma. White is married to former soap opera actress Erika Page of ''One Life to Live'' and is the father of Justin, born in October 2003 and Jackson, born in July 2005.

===Career===
In the mid 1990s, when Bryan was in his early twenties, he quickly became one of country music's hottest young stars earning number one singles on the Billboard country chart with his songs "Someone Else's Star" and "Rebecca Lynn" from his debut album. "I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore" reached fourth, and then he had number ones with "So Much for Pretending" and "Sittin' on Go" from his second album. Although one critic labeled Bryan's first two albums as "surprisingly mature", it was mainly teen fans which helped launch his success. The first issue of Teen Country magazine was devoted solely to him.

White won the Country Music Association "Horizon" award for the most promising artist of the year and earned several "Best Male Vocalist" nominations. His immense success inspired most of Nashville's record labels to sign up multiple young men in their early twenties with "pretty boy" looks and singing sugary love songs to attract the young audiences that made White a star.  Only a few of these were briefly successful and soon country music radio rebelled, wiping them off the charts and damaging White's own career in the process. After having two platinum albums, his popularity faltered a bit with his third album going gold, and his fourth album not even making it that far. 

In 2000 he sang several of the songs featured in the animation ''Quest for Camelot'' including "I Stand Alone" and the duet "Looking Through Your Eyes".

'''Bryan Shelton White''' (* Lawton, Oklahoma, USA) ist US-amerikanischer Country-Sänger

==Anfänge==
Als Sohn professioneller Musiker kam Bryan schon früh mit Country in Berührung. Seine Eltern trennten sich nur wenige Jahre nach seiner Geburt, blieben aber freundschaftlich verbunden und spielten weiterhin in derselben Band. Mit fünf Jahren begann Bryan Schlagzeug zu spielen. Seine eigentliche Leidenschaft aber war der Gesang.

Aus seiner Begeisterung für Steve Wariner entstand 1988 der Wunsch, Country-Sänger zu werden. Der ebenfalls aus Oklahoma stammende Session-Musiker Billy Joe Walker vermittelte ihm erste Kontakte nach Nashville. Finanziell von seinen Eltern unterstützt begann er nach Schulabschluss als Songwriter in der Music City.

==Karriere==
Auf Vermittlung von Billy Joe Walker kam 1994 ein Vertrag mit dem Asylum-Label zustande. Im gleichen Jahr erschien sein Debüt-Album ''Bryan White''. Die Single-Auskopplungen ''Someone Else's Star'' und ''Rebecca Lynn'' erreichten 1995 Platz 1 der Country-Charts. Auch aus seinem zweiten Album, ''Between Now And Forever'', wurden zwei Nummer-1-Hits ausgekoppelt. Beide Alben wurden mit Platin ausgezeichnet. Im selben Jahr erhielt White als meistversprechender Nachwuchsmusikers den begehrten CMA Horizon Award und weitere Preise. 

Der gutaussehende, an den Schauspieler Michael J. Fox erinnernden Newcomer, war in diesen Jahren einer der wenigen Country-Musiker Nashvilles, der nicht mit Cowboy-Hut und übergroßer Gürtelschnalle auftrat. Sein Mainstream-Country fand auch bei Anhängern der Popmusik Anklang. Nach seinen ersten Erfolgen nutzte Bryan White seine Popularität für soziale Engagements. Ein von ihm initiiertes Benefizkonzert für die Opfer des Bombenattentats von Oklahoma erbrachte 60.000$. Außerdem beteiligte er sich an mehreren Programmen zur Unterstützung unheilbar Kranker.