Scotty McCreery

Scott Cooke McCreery (born October 9, 1993) is an American country music singer. He won the tenth season of American Idol on May 25, 2011. His debut studio album, Clear as Day, was released in October 2011 and was certified platinum in the United States. The album includes the top 20 country songs, "I Love You This Big" and "The Trouble with Girls". McCreery released a Christmas album, Christmas with Scotty McCreery, in October 2012 and it has been certified gold. He released his third album, See You Tonight, in October 2013. The first single from the album, also called "See You Tonight", became his first song to reach the top ten on Billboard\'s Country charts. Setting a new record in July 2017 with his single "Five More Minutes", McCreery became the only country music artist in Country Aircheck/Mediabase history to chart a song without the backing of a record label; it would top Billboard and Mediabase in February 2018. His most recent album, Seasons Change, was released in March 2018.\n', ' McCreery was born on October 9, 1993, in Garner, North Carolina, the son of Judy (née Cooke) and Michael McCreery. His parents originally planned on naming him Evan, but changed their minds as they were on their way to the hospital. McCreery is of one quarter Puerto Rican descent; his father, a manufacturing systems analyst for Schneider Electric, was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, to an American father on military duty and a Puerto Rican mother from San Juan, both of whom later moved to Aberdeen, North Carolina. McCreery\'s mother works as a real estate agent for Fonville Morisey. She also owns her own tanning salon in Clayton, North Carolina, called At the Beach. McCreery has an older sister named Ashley, who attended UNC Charlotte. Both were raised in Garner.\n', ' Around the age of five or six, McCreery received a book about Elvis from his grandmother, and Elvis became McCreery\'s earliest musical influence. He began learning guitar when he was around nine or ten years old.\n', '