Dejoria Center: Sawyer Brown

An American country music band founded in 1981 in Apopka, Florida, by five members of country pop singer Don King’s road band. After King retired in 1981, the five members decided to form a band and first gaining national attention in 1983 when they participated on Star Search, a former television talent show on which they won the grand prize of $100,000. Their first album, also titled Sawyer Brown, was issued in 1985 and included their first Number One single on the Billboard country music charts, titled “Step That Step”. The band continued to chart regularly throughout the 1980s, although many of their late-1980s singles failed to enter Top 40.