Dave Barnes (born David Mckee Barnes, June 20, 1978) is an American musician/singer and Grammy nominated songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released six albums including a Christmas album, His most recent album is "Dave Barnes: Stories to Tell" released in 2012.
The oldest of three children, Barnes was born in South Carolina in 1978. He is the son of a pastor who relocated his family to Kosciusko, Mississippi, just as Barnes was turning six years old. The Barnes family then moved to Knoxville, Tennessee the summer before his junior year in high school. Barnes went to college to further his studies playing the drums, and once at college, began playing guitar and writing songs for fun. He was initially only interested in writing material for other performers but was later encouraged by his peers to perform his works himself. Barnes took their advice and began performing within the campus at Middle Tennessee State University, and then performed at various nearby universities in regional centres as well as his own.
