Marcus Hummon

  • Grammy AWARD WINNER

  • BMI AWARD WINNER

  • Six #1 RECORDS

Marcus Hummon, has been called Nashville's Renaissance Man. He has enjoyed a successful career as a songwriter, recording artist, producer and studio musician, playwright and author. His songs have
been recorded in Pop, R and B, gospel...and most notably in country music. His country discography reads like a 'who's who' list of country notables over the last 15 years...Rascal Flatts, Garth Brooks, The Dixie Chicks, Brooks and Dunn, Tim McGraw, Wynona, Sara Evans, Alabama, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Brian White, Leann Womack, Patty Lovelace...to name a few.

 

Six of his songs have charted #1 on Billboard, Radio and Records or Cashbox. BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD (Rascal Flatts), COWBOY TAKE ME AWAY, READY TO RUN (The Dixie Chicks), BORN TO FLY (Sara Evans), ONE OF THESE DAYS (Tim McGraw), and ONLY LOVE (Wynona). Several of his songs have been nominated for Grammys, ACMs and CMAs. In 2005 BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD won the Grammy for Best Country Song. Along the way he has garnered numerous BMI awards and been named Nashville's Best Local Songwriter 5 times by The Nashville Scene.

 

As a recording artist and multi-instrumentalist Marcus released a critically acclaimed country record for Columbia Records in 1995 (ALL IN GOOD TIME); also, in 1997 Marcus and Scottish BIG COUNTRY front-man, Stuart Adamson, released their duo album SUPERNATURAL, as The Raphaels, with Track Records out of London. He has also released two independent albums for Velvet Armadillo Records and another independent album called ROSANNA (2010). Turning to theatre, Hummon has written 5 musicals and 2 operas. Two of his musicals, WARRIOR and THE PIPER, were featured Off-Broadway as part of the New York New Musical Festival (NYMF) in 2005, and 2006. WARRIOR and AMERICAN DUET received invitations to be work-shopped at the prestigious Eugene O'Neill Summer Conference in 2005 and 2006
respectively. For WARRIOR, a musical about the life of Jim Thorpe, Marcus received an Award for Creative Excellence from the Native American Association of Tennessee. He also received a nomination for an NAACP Award for his play ATLANTA, which enjoyed an extended three-month run at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. His opera, SURRENDER ROAD, was supported by OPERA AMERICA and staged by The Nashville Opera Company.

 

In literature, Hummon's children's book, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE was published by Athenium Press, a division of Simon and Schuster in 2009. An earlier book of poetry, GOSPEL HAIKU was published by Providence Press.

 

As a Producer, Hummon has produced the freshman offering of country trio One Flew South on Decca Records; and he is also producing a record on Julie Roberts for MCA Nashville.

Marcus lives in Nashville with his wife Becca, and their three sons, Levi, Caney and Moses.