Walker Hayes

About

Charles Edgar Walker Hayes (born December 27, 1979) is an American country pop singer and songwriter. He has released five studio albums: Reason to Rhyme in 2011 on Capitol Records Nashville, and Boom (2017), Country Stuff the Album (2022), New Money (2023), and 17 Problems (2025), on RCA Records. Hayes has charted multiple singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts; his highest-peaking is “Fancy Like”, which reached the number one position on both charts between late 2021 and early 2022.

Hayes was born on December 27, 1979, in Mobile, Alabama. He has eight older half-siblings, four from his mother’s previous marriage and four from his father’s previous marriage. His father, Charles Hayes, was a realtor and died in 2021. Hayes attended St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Mobile and then graduated from Birmingham–Southern College in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in music and an emphasis on piano.

Hayes and his wife moved to Nashville in 2005, hoping to get in the country music business. He landed a job writing songs for a Nashville publishing company and then signed a contract with Mercury Records Nashville…