Join Us on Monday, February 14th 2022, for a magical Valentine's Day evening with country music artist
LEE BRICE and special guests Jerrod Niemann and Rob Hatch at the Wang Opera Center Naples.
An Intimate Show with 320 guests to benefit the Pace Center For Girls Immokalee, Tim Tebow Foundation and Operation Underground Railroad.
Doors Open at 6:45pm - Complimentary Valet Parking - Silent Auction - Show 8pm-10pm.
Lee Brice Bio – Hey World - 2020
Ten years after the release of his first album, music listeners likely think they have a good idea about who Lee Brice is, based on his eight #1 singles and his seven CMA Award nominations.
He is, one might argue, a sensitive country roughneck, the guy who embraces the power of long-lasting relationships in “Love Like Crazy,” “A Woman Like You” and “I Don’t Dance.” He’s the guy who makes his audiences cry every time he memorializes people who sacrificed their lives on our behalf in “I Drive Your Truck.”
But with his 2020 album Hey World, people are likely hearing Brice differently. Singing next to smoky vocalist Carly Pearce on the #1 single “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” the power and range in his voice comes in loud and clear. In the follow-up #1, “One Of Them Girls,” he attacks the subject matter with bite and swagger. It’s still sensitive, but it’s imbued with an undeniable playfulness and a commanding drive.
Throughout Hey World, listeners experience a fully-formed version of Lee Brice, through the twangy power-pop of “Good Ol’ Boys,” the old-school R&B behind “Don’t Need No Reason,” the bluesy sexual tone of “Do Not Disturb,” the new wave tech flavor of “Soul,” the dark and dangerous “Sons And Daughters” and the honky-tonk middle finger in “If You.”
Those textures have always been there in one form or another – his celebratory #1 “Drinking Class” and the alt-rock undercurrent in the chart-topping “Hard To Love” bear that out – but Hey World is the deepest, widest and most complete exploration to date of Brice’s unbound creative spirit.
“There's so much more to me, and most people who've been to my show, they see that,” he says. “They come out and kick the footlights out – you know, we have that side. That's partly who I am. I'm just rowdy, fun, tough, let's go, let's hit it – you know what I mean? But you don't hear it in the singles much.”
That’s changed in recent years. “Rumor,” which ascended to #1 in 2019, is a stew of blues and gospel. “I Hope You’re Happy Now” applied a big-sounding train groove to a regret-filled storyline, and “One Of Them Girls,” which topped the chart in September 2020, embraced a propulsive backbeat. Those songs helped Brice in his determination to widen perceptions of his art beyond the sensitive country balladeer.
“We have an opportunity now,” he says. “We can stretch a boundary, and we can bring some people in.”
There are already plenty of people on board the Lee Brice express. He has amassed over 2.3 billion career on-demand streams, more than 3.2 billion Pandora Radio plays and more than 450 million YouTube views. The world at large is paying attention to Brice.
Wang Opera Center, Naples, 34112