Blake Wise

{{short description|American singer-songwriter}}

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| birth_date = c. 1989

| birth_place = Nebo, North Carolina

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| instrument = Vocals

| genre = Country

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| years_active = 2008–present

| label = Equity Music Group
Broken Bow

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Blake Wise is an American country music singer from Nebo, North Carolina. He is signed to the independent Broken Bow Records, for which he has released three singles: "Cornfields," "I've Got This Feeling" and "Can't Live Without."

Biography

Wise learned to play guitar at age four and began touring with his father at age thirteen. Two years later, a record label manager encouraged Wise to move to Nashville, Tennessee once Wise had turned eighteen.{{cite web |url=http://www.gactv.com/gac/ar_artists_a-z/article/0,,GAC_26071_6027290,00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731043410/http://www.gactv.com/gac/ar_artists_a-z/article/0,,GAC_26071_6027290,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 July 2012 |title=Blake Wise biography (page 1) |work=Great American Country |accessdate=29 November 2010 }}

Wise signed to Equity Music Group in 2008 at age nineteen.{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wpU1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=DygMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1702,3303966&dq=blake-wise&hl=en |title=Blake Wise to perform at Nashville Sound |date=30 March 2008 |work=Elizabethton Star |accessdate=29 November 2010}} The label closed soon afterward, and he signed to Broken Bow Records in September 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.gactv.com/gac/ar_artists_a-z/article/0,3028,GAC_26071_6027290_02,00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905090418/http://www.gactv.com/gac/ar_artists_a-z/article/0,3028,GAC_26071_6027290_02,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 September 2012 |title=Blake Wise biography (page 2) |work=Great American Country |accessdate=29 November 2010 }} Broken Bow released his single "Cornfields" in mid-2010,{{cite web |url=http://www.roughstock.com/blog/blake-wise-cornfields- |title=Blake Wise — "Cornfields" |last=Bjorke |first=Matt |publisher=Roughstock |accessdate=29 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102102937/http://www.roughstock.com/blog/blake-wise-cornfields- |archivedate=2 January 2011 }} followed by "I've Got This Feeling" later in the year. This song debuted at number 59 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week ending December 11, 2010.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-adult-contemporary-country-1004132021.story#/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-adult-contemporary-country-1004132021.story |title=Billboard chart highlights |date=29 November 2010 |magazine=Billboard |accessdate=29 November 2010 |archive-date=1 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201011313/http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-adult-contemporary-country-1004132021.story#/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-adult-contemporary-country-1004132021.story |url-status=dead }} A third single, "Can't Live Without," was released in September 2011.

Discography

=Singles=

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! rowspan="2" style="width:14em;"| Single

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style="width:6.5em;font-size:75%;"|US Country
rowspan="2"| 2010

! scope="row"| "Cornfields"

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scope="row"| "I've Got This Feeling"

| 54

2011

! scope="row"| "Can't Live Without"

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colspan="3" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart

=Music videos=

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Year

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! Director

2011

! scope="row"| "Can't Live Without"

| John Fucile

References

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