Biography

Emerson Drive, is a Canadian country music band which started out in Grande Prairie, Alberta in 1995. They received the 2002 Billboard Music Award for New Country Artist Of The Year. Their albums include Emerson Drive, What If?, and Countrified.
Members of Emerson Drive are Brad Mates (lead vocals), David Pichette (fiddle), Danick Dupelle (lead guitar), Mike Melancon (drums), Patrick Bourque (bass) and Dale Wallace (keyboards). Mates is the only member of the band that hails from Alberta, while the other members hail from British Columbia (Wallace) & Quebec (Bourque, Dupelle, Melancon, & Pichette).

• ACM Top New Vocal Group/Duo for 2003
• Billboard’s #1 Top Country Artist of the Year for 2002
• R&R’s #1 New Artist MVP for 2002
• Group of the Year for two consecutive years, from the Canadian Country Music Association
• Two Top 5 hits with “Fall Into Me” and “I Should Be Sleeping”
• #1 Music Video on CMT's Top Twenty Countdown with “Fall Into Me”
• CCMA Rising Star Award in 2002

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