Jimmy Wayne

A look inside at what made him the man he is today. To learn more, read the rest of "his story", on Wikipedia.

Jimmy Wayne (Barber) was born on October 23, 1972 in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. At the time of Wayne's birth, his mother was divorced from her first husband (Barber) but not married to Wayne's biological father, (Stewart), who was married to someone else. Because his mother still carried her first husband's last name, when Wayne was born, he was given the name 'Barber'. He has since dropped the last name 'Barber' having never known that man. His biological father abandoned him at an early age. He and his sister were sometimes raised in foster homes or were left with other people when their mother would leave them to go off with men or start drinking and doing drugs, or go to jail. She served four months in prison in 1985 when Wayne was 12. Wayne escaped a murder attempt made by one of his step-fathers when he was about 13. Allegedly, this same man did shoot and paralyze Wayne's sister-in-law, Cathy Barber. She was around 20 years old at the time. Sadly, she died from complications of her paralysis in 2009 at the age of 44 leaving behind a son, Lawrence. No one was ever charged or convicted for the shooting of Mrs. Barber. Wayne still keeps in contact with his mother, but the man that tried to kill him has since died. After entering a county home, Wayne ran away and lived with his mother for a brief time before living on the streets and with his sister, Patricia, for a short while. He eventually moved in with an elderly couple, Russell and Bea Costner, (just down the road from where his mother was living), after being hired to mow their lawn. After finishing high school, he worked as a guard at the Gaston Correctional Facility, where he took songwriting advice from an inmate. He earned an associate's degree in criminal justice at a community college. Afterwards he worked as a corrections officer for 4 years before moving to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue his musical interests.

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