[2] Growing up around the beach as well as around dirt car-racing tracks near his home, he played outside linebacker and fullback in high school football.
He spent most of his first year sitting in the off-campus apartment he and his brother shared, playing guitar and trying to write country songs.
After performing on a local radio show in Alabama, he quit school to work at a gift shop in Orlando, Florida.
[7] Bonamy wrote the track "I Knew I'd Need My Heart Someday" with Johnson and Pat Bunch, and chose the title track (which was written by Skip Ewing and Bill Anderson and previously recorded by Doug Supernaw[6]) at the suggestion of Epic's A&R director, Debbie Zavitson.
[12] He served full time as a Worship Pastor at Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida from 2010 to 2012.