INSIGHT Magazine July 2014 | Page 10

Edwin McCain to perform at Bucker Event Center E dwin McCain’s voice is everywhere. At any given moment, a radio station is playing one of his songs. An American Idol hopeful is belting out “I’ll Be.” A newlywed couple is dancing to “I Could Not Ask for More.” His songs have over 25 million plays on myspace alone. There’s Edwin singing the National Anthem before the Atlanta Braves and the Dodgers play for the pennant. Before a NASCAR race at Talladega. And at the NBA Finals. We hear him in over 100 concert halls throughout the country every year, and that’s not even counting the performances at the Super Bowl Village and fundraisers for Habitat for Humanity, the Wildflower Camp Foundation, Kyle Petty’s Victory Junction Gang and so many more. McCain’s innate ability to write and perform songs that somehow every listener 10 claims as their own has made him one of the most enduring and downright likable entertainers of our generation. Over a million Dr. Phil viewers voted “I’ll Be” as the best wedding song ever written, VH1 calls it one of the “Greatest Love Songs of All Time”, it has received over 17 millions plays on myspace alone. Even Justin Beiber posted his July 2014 INSIGHT