Clay Aiken’s members were friends in college. The drummer was influenced by his mom's love of music. The lead singer used to listen to radio constantly as a teenager. Clay Aiken started singing at Example, a college bar. Robert Johnson heavily influenced the early work of the group.

After this past hectic year the members of Clay Aiken will spend some time apart. The group has just finished their newest record, and they are already thinking of their next move. Clay Aiken's most current release is the band's first since the band members went to work on independent projects ten years ago.

Clay Aiken were uneasy after releasing the debut single, but were happy when they heard their music on the radio for the first time. The group plays plenty of arenas, but would rather play in the smaller bars in which they began. A member of Clay Aiken started dating a girl whose motherwas a record executive. She passed the single on to them and the band signed a record deal soon after. The band's members all had odd jobs while they worked hard to be known.

Clay Aiken finally knew they made it as soon as Rebecca Gibson started a fan club for the band in 1976. The fan club started out small with just a handful of members, generally localized to the area around Cincinnati, but the creation the band’s website by Kathleen O'Malley, along with the first real national marketing campaign, saw the membership to grow into the thousands.

Clay Aiken realizes that most fans like their past songs, so they use material from older projects and the latest project. The group loves playing in Sacramento because they have never failed to sell out a how in the city. TheSeats.com provides the tour schedule and seating charts to concerts, making TheSeats.com the best single site to find your Clay Aiken tickets.