"If You Didn't Love Me" Press Release

AMERICAN IDOL FINALIST PHIL STACEY RELEASES DEBUT SINGLE



NASHVILLE, TN - (January 4, 2008) – American Idol season 6 finalist
Phil Stacey will release his debut single, “If You Didn’t Love Me”
to country radio on Monday, January 7. The track, produced by Wayne
Kirkpatrick (Little Big Town) and written by Wendell Mobley, Jason
Sellers and Rascal Flatts’ Gary LeVox, will be the lead single from Phil
Stacey’s upcoming debut CD, scheduled for release in April 2008.



“I’m so excited to have found this song and that it’ll be my
very first single,” says Phil. “The lyrics of the song mean a lot to
me because it’s a great love song that everyone can relate to and I
feel like it tells the story of my marriage. I’ve been blessed with an
amazingly supportive wife [Kendra] and with all the things we’ve been
through together - whether it was in college, the military or even on
American Idol – having her there made everything so much easier and
put joy into everything we went through. I don’t know where I’d be
today without her.”



Phil grew up singing in his father’s church in Fairfield, Ohio and
studied vocal performance at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. In
2003, Phil enlisted in the United States Navy where he served as a
Musician Third Class at Navy Band Southeast in Jacksonville, Florida.



It wasn’t until 2007 that Phil came to national attention when he
performed for millions of viewers each week during his competition on the
sixth season of American Idol. His renditions of the country hits
“Where The Blacktop Ends,” “The Change” and “I Need You” were
among his most praised performances of the season.



Following his time on American Idol, Phil toured with his fellow
contestants over the summer on a 55 city tour before moving to Nashville with
wife Kendra and their two daughters to pursue his country music
career.


Lyric Street Records is a part of Disney Music Group. The Disney Music
Group is the recorded music and music publishing arm of the Walt Disney
Studios.

Awesome.

yay! i'm so proud of phil. he's gonna be great!