The duo have collaborated with Justin Bieber, Charlie Puth, Rascal Flatts, Lindsey Stirling, RaeLynn, and Kelly Clarkson.
From 2019 to 2021, the duo won three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for the songs "Tequila", "Speechless", and "10,000 Hours" (with Justin Bieber).
The song received a positive review at Taste of Country which praised the "warm details" and "emotion".
[18] Dan + Shay was the opening act for Hunter Hayes on his We're Not Invisible Tour, which began in March 2014.
[23] In August 2015, the duo announced the Just the Right Kind of Crazy Tour across the Midwest and eastern United States.
[36][37] From October to December the duo supported Chris Young on his Losing Sleep World Tour.
[43] The song debuted at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance.
[45] In October 2019, the duo announced their Dan + Shay The (Arena) Tour originally set to start in March 2020.
[55][56] In August 2021, the duo collaborated with Carrie Underwood on a cover of "Only Us" from Dear Evan Hansen, which they recorded for the soundtrack album of the musical's 2021 film adaptation.
[65] The Dan + Shay song "Stop Drop + Roll" was featured on the Nashville season two episode "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad".
Dan Smyers cited artists such as Ryan Adams, Tom Petty, Kenny Chesney and Alison Krauss as musical influences.
[14] Shay Mooney cited artists such as Rascal Flatts, Dave Matthews Band, Usher and Kenny Chesney as musical influences.
[14] Billboard noted musical influences from The Beach Boys, Electric Light Orchestra, Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn on the duo's fourth album, Good Things.
"[87]Daniel "Dan" Smyers, born (1987-08-16) August 16, 1987 (age 37)[88] was raised in Wexford, Pennsylvania,[89][90] where he attended North Allegheny Senior High School.
[4] Prior to joining Dan + Shay, Smyers fronted an emo band called Transition, which also includes members like Harrison Wargo (who later formed The Morning Light) and Dustin Hook (who left to join My American Heart and is now the full-time touring bassist for Dan + Shay ), the band released one full-length record in 2006 on Floodgate Records produced by Mike Herrera, who is best known for his work with MxPx.
[3][90] Instruments: Vocals, guitar, bass, piano Smyers and Abby Law were in a relationship for many years before becoming engaged in 2016 and were married on May 13, 2017.
[96] Law made a cameo in a Dan + Shay videos for their songs "Nothin' Like You", "Speechless"[97] and "10,000 Hours".
[98] Smyers and Abby work with Wags & Walks Rescue Nashville to save dogs and place them in their forever homes.
[99] James Shay Mooney,[3][5] born (1991-12-27) December 27, 1991 (age 33)[88] was raised in Natural Dam, Arkansas,[100] and was home-schooled until the fifth-grade,[3] but later attended Union Christian Academy and Van Buren High School.
[89] Following high school, he attended Valley Forge Christian College for one year before completely pursuing his music career.
[101] Mooney had a record deal with rapper T-Pain on Pain's Nappy Boy Entertainment label.
[3] Instruments: Vocals, piano, guitar On January 24, 2017, his fiancée Hannah Billingsley gave birth to their first child, a son.