“If there's one kind of music that makes somebody happy, how is that a bad thing? And if there's another kind that makes somebody else happy, how is that a bad thing? I don't get why anybody cares about what they don't like so much.”

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Christopher Alvin Stapleton is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is known for his work in country music and for a career that began after he left engineering studies at Vanderbilt University to pursue music in Nashville. Born in Kentucky, he moved to Nashville in 1996 and later signed with Sea Gayle Music as a writer and publisher. His early career was shaped by songwriting as well as performing, and his name is closely associated with modern American country music.