Dierks Bentley

Dierks Bentley earns my respect for betting on himself. A Vanderbilt graduate who moved to Nashville in the late 90s, he could have taken the safe road but instead self-funded and released an independent album before any label backing arrived. That willingness to risk his own money on his own voice is what eventually drew Capitol Nashville's attention, and you can hear that hard-earned conviction in his music. He doesn't just sing; he writes and plays guitar too, a genuine craftsman rather than a manufactured star. I gravitate toward artists whose authenticity was forged the slow way, and Bentley is one of them.

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Name (English)

Dierks Bentley

Name (Japanese)

ディエクス・ベントレー

Reading

でぃえくす・べんとれー

Born

November 20, 1975 (age 50)

Origin

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / songwriter / composer / guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

University

Vanderbilt University

Awards & achievements

• 2008 Country Music Association Award for International Achievement

• Official sitehttps://www.dierks.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dierksbentley/
• Xhttps://x.com/DierksBentley
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dierks%20Bentley
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q617932

Tags

• Arizona
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.