Hank Grant just released his NEW cd "Bible & A Bus Ticket Home" and is available at www.HankGrant.net
About Hank: Hank Grant, born Feb. 22, 1971, in Jonesboro, Arkansas was the youngest of three with two older sisters (Theresa and Tabatha).
When Hank was twelve, his mother bought an organ for the family home. Her love of music and family, brought hours and love, entertainment and family together. Singing and playing in the evenings after dinner...or just gathering in the family room on a weekend afternoon to reminisce and harmonize at the request of anyone in the family. A prodigy was in the making.
Hank became interested and started learning songs from the radio. Playing endless hours on the second hand organ, he began playing the songs he loved by ear...note by note until he got it just right.
It wasn't long until he was playing standard holiday songs for the family, and even in the family Church. He was even honored when asked by his sister to play the wedding march in her wedding.
Hank attended RedRock Public Schools (RedRock, OK) from the second grade until he graduated in 1989. Throughout junior high school he developed a close relationship with his FFA advisor, Mr. Phillip Fuss, (and former Music Instructor as well). Fuss heard Hank sing and decided that he would mentor him and entered him in many public speaking events, all the time envisioning Hank on a stage in front of hundreds or thousands of fans.
Mr. Fuss took Hank to a music store and asked him to pick out a musical track. Hank picked "Smokey Mountain Rain", by Ronnie Milsap. Mr. Fuss said, "Well, you need to start practicing, because you are going to perform it live, in front of an audience." And he did.
His first performance was in front of his junior high school classmates and faculty, and admittedly, he was "so scared". However, his performance went so well that he was, in his own words, "addicted".
He began performing at all kinds of school activities such as basketball games, football games, and other events, while taking the most pride in being asked to sing the National Anthem.
It was during this time that he began entering local vocal contests, where he soon earned statewide recognition for his performance of "God Bless the U.S.A.", by Lee Greenwood.
Hank's senior year, he enlisted in the Oklahoma Army National Guard. The same year, his mother and stepfather divorced. Marsha moved she and the family to Billings, Oklahoma.
Hank's mom and stepfather (John Pemberton), found themselves purchasing the bar in which they had met. It was named Doolie's Bar and Grill. Soon thereafter, they decided to buy Hank a karaoke machine, and sound equipment and began booking him to sing in the bar as a one man show.
Hank joined up with Donnie McKeown who played guitar and took a liking to Hank. With McKeown's help, Hank formed a band in 1992 called Wild West. They found themselves being invited to gigs all over Oklahoma. He and (wife) Amy moved to Nashville in 1994 so he could pursue his music career.
He and Amy married in 1995 and had a son together (Christian). The same year, the family was given word that Hank's oldest son, Andrew, would have to undergo a (successful) liver transplant, at the age of 3.
After an emotional and trying year, and with, in Hank's words, "all of the slamming doors in Nashville", he and Amy moved back to Oklahoma in 1996.
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