Darius Rucker undoubtedly had strong support from his mother throughout his life. The “Same Beer Different Problem” singer remembered his late mother as “always great,” working often in her job as a nurse.
“She took a lot of overtime and stuff to make sure we could live basically, but she always just so supportive, ever since I was a kid,” Rucker recalled, per his record label. “I was always a music kid. Growing up in an African-American neighborhood, I was never that guy who was gonna be pigeonholed to let people say I could only listen to this and I could only do this, because I was African-American. She always supported whatever I wanted to do, whatever I wanted to listen to, wherever I wanted to go, she always had my back. Going to college and everything, she was my biggest supporter and never let my brothers and sisters knock me down or try to tell me I can’t do this or that. All of my success comes because my mother was always in my corner.”
Though Rucker’s life is packed with tons of fond memories of his mother, one in particular sticks out to him. He said in a statement, shared by his record label:
“Oh goodness! A lot of great memories of her, but probably one of my favorite memories, I was a young kid, probably eight or nine, and she was in the kitchen cooking and listening to the gospel station and Shirley Caesar’s ‘No Charge’ came on and she was singing ‘No Charge.’ I just remember I ran into our living room which was adjoined to our kitchen and I just sat there and I just listened to her sing that song, and I remember thinking, ‘Wow! What an amazing voice.’ That’s just always a memory I’ve always had, and that song still to this day when I hear it just moves me because that was my mom’s song.”