Diamond Rio is an American Country music/Christian music band
formed in 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. Since its foundation, the group
has comprised the same six members: Gene Johnson (mandolin, guitar,
fiddle, tenor vocals), Jimmy Olander (lead guitar, Dobro, Danelectro,
banjo), Brian Prout (drums), Marty Roe (lead vocals), Dan Truman
(keyboards, organ, synthesizer), and Dana Williams (bass guitar,
baritone vocals).
Diamond Rio has released seven studio albums, two greatest hits
collections and “A Diamond Rio Christmas: The Star Still Shines,” a 2007
holiday album. The band has earned three platinum albums and won the
Country Music Association’s Vocal Group of the Year award four times as
well as netting two Academy of Country Music Awards in the top Vocal
Group of the Year category. When they debuted in 1991 with the hit “Meet
in the Middle,” Diamond Rio became the first group in the history of
country music to have a debut single reach No. 1. They continued to
place 32 more singles on the Billboard chart, including “How Your Love
Makes Me Feel,” “Norma Jean Riley,” “Beautiful Mess” and “Love a Little
Stronger.”
Over the years, Diamond Rio developed a reputation as one of the
industry’s most musically inventive outfits, a band of skilled musicians
with a dedicated work ethic and the ability to find and record songs
that struck a universal chord with audiences.
