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<h1>Hugh Moffatt (singer)</h1> Hugh Moffatt (born November 3, 1948)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-AMG-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a> is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">country</a> singer and songwriter. In the 1970s and 1980s several artists made hits out of his songs. He has also released critically acclaimed albums of his own.<h2>Beginnings</h2>He was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Texas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fort Worth, Texas</a>, United States.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> In his youth, Moffatt learned classical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">piano</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">jazz</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">trumpet</a> and was a member of his high school band. Despite early inclinations toward <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">country music</a>, while at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rice University</a> Moffatt learned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">guitar</a> and turned toward jazz and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blues</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> After graduation, he moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Austin, Texas</a> and had planned to move to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Washington, D.C.</a>, but a visit to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ole_Opry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grand Ole Opry</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nashville, Tennessee</a> in 1973 renewed his old passion for country music, and he stayed there to seek a career in that genre.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a><h2>Career</h2>Moffatt first worked as a songwriter, in emulation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kris Kristofferson</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> Success first came when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Milsap" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ronnie Milsap</a>'s recording of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_in_Case_(Ronnie_Milsap_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Just in Case</a>" peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard country chart.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> In 1977, he signed a record deal with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mercury</a> and released two unsuccessful singles, and then refocused on songwriting.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a>In 1980, Moffatt formed Ratz with Wade McCurdy, John Dietrich, Michael Bonagura and his wife.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> They released the self-financed debut Puttin' on the Ratz in 1984.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> Two years later he released a solo album, Loving You,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> which he followed up in 1989 with Troubador, often considered today as his best work. Together with his sister, the country singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Moffatt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Katy Moffatt</a>, he released 1992's Dance Me Outside.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> He has continued to record and release albums well into the new millennium.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-AMG-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johnny Cash</a> recorded Moffatt's "Rose of My Heart" shortly before his death. The song was released on Cash's album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_V:_A_Hundred_Highways" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American V: A Hundred Highways</a>.Moffatt and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ching" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Ching</a>, the Artistic Director of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Memphis" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Opera Memphis</a>, premiered their first full-length <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">opera</a> in 2003 with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Missouri" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Missouri</a> Show-Me Opera. The opera, entitled Corps of Discovery, follows the journeys of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis and Clark</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Orleans</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pacific Northwest</a> and back. Moffatt and Ching have collaborated on two one-act operas that have been performed across the country; King of the Clouds, commissioned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Opera" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dayton Opera</a>, follows the story and dreams of the future of the son of an alcoholic mother. Out of the Rain follows the life of a group of friends and society's relationship and struggle with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AIDS</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-AMG-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a> In 2010, they again collaborated on a new English translation of Gluck's "Orfeo ed Eurydice" for Opera Memphis.<h2>Personal life</h2>Moffatt is the brother of singer-songwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Moffatt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Katy Moffatt</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> He was married to songwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebe_Sebert" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pebe Sebert</a>, with whom he wrote "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Flames_Can%27t_Hold_a_Candle_to_You" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You</a>", in 1977,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Moffatt_(singer)#cite_note-LarkinCountry-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> but the couple separated in 1984. They have one son, Lagan Blue Sebert, a video and documentary film producer living in New York City. Sebert is also the mother of pop star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesha" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kesha</a> and for this reason Moffatt is sometimes assumed to be the father of Kesha, but he is not. Moffatt says, "I have enormous respect for Kesha. I admire her music, her talent, her work ethic, and the fact that she has clearly established herself as a voice of her generation. I would be proud to be her father, but I do not have that honor." Since 1987, Moffatt has been married to Mary Vaughan, formerly an elementary and Montessori pre-school teacher, now retired. They live in Nashville and have two children, Corianna Moffatt, an actor, director, and playwright living in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Boston</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Massachusetts</a>, and Greyson Moffatt, a math and engineering student living in Nashville.