b. c.1960, South Bronx, New York, USA. Chris Ward had all the right credentials to enter the machismo world of the honky-tonk singer in the mid-90s - his former professions included being a rodeo bull rider, a Marine sergeant and a SWAT team member in a Californian police department. During these spells, Ward had always been a practising musician, having taken up drums during his itinerant childhood, caused by his father's executive career with IBM. In his teenage years he idolized Michael Jackson and Donny Osmond, but played their records back to back with country selections ...