Kix Brooks

About

Leon Eric “Kix” Brooks III (born May 12, 1955) is an American country music artist, actor, and film producer best known for being one half of the duo Brooks & Dunn and host of radio’s American Country Countdown. Prior to the duo’s foundation, he was a singer and songwriter and had songs chart twice on Hot Country Songs and released an album on Capitol Records. Brooks and Ronnie Dunn performed as Brooks & Dunn for 20 years and then both members began solo careers. Brooks’ solo career after Brooks & Dunn includes the album New to This Town.
In 2019, Brooks was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as a member of Brooks & Dunn.

Brooks grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. He has a half-sister and a half-brother; his father also adopted a son of his third wife. He had a sister, Midge, who died in 2014. After graduating from the former Sewanee Military Academy, an Episcopal school in Sewanee, Tennessee, he attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston as a theater arts major. He moved to Alaska to work with his father on an oil pipeline for one summer, then returned to Louisiana Tech to finish his education. After graduating, he moved to Maine to write advertising for…