About Chad Jeffers | Musician, Speaker & Creative Mentor

Chad Jeffers is a world touring guitarist who has built a career performing at the highest levels of the music industry alongside some of its biggest names, incltxiing Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Kenny Loggins.

A longtime member of Carrie touring band, he performs on global arena tours and the industry’s biggest television stages. including the Grammy Awards, CMA Awards, and American Music Awards. His work has taken him around the world, from major international tours to special performances for U.S. troops overseas.

In addition to his work on stage, Jeffers has built a successful career as a luxury real estate advisor with Compass, serving clients throughout Middle Tennessee. Known for professionalism, preparatim, and a steady presence under pressure, he brings a performance driven mindset to every high stakes transaction.
He also served for several years as an adjunct professor at Belmont University, mentoring and teaching the next generation of music business professionals. Jeffers is author of 25 Notes for the Successful Musician and a sought after speaker who works with leaders, entrepreneurs, and sales professionals on how to at their best when it matters most.

A Tennessee native and Belmont University graduate with degrees in Music Business and Marketing, his work across music, real estate, and speaking is built on one core belief: great performance is never an accident. It is preparation, discipline, and the ability to deliver when the pressure is on.

Born and raised in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in East Tennessee, Chad Jeffers began his career guided by his Singer-Songwriter Dad. At the age of eight, he was already playing drums in a band with his father Doc Jeffers and older brother Michael. A year later, Jeffers switched to guitar when he and his brother formed Raney Nickel, a country top-40 band. They played fairs, festivals, and theme parks throughout East Tennessee (including dates at Dollywood).

After high school, Jeffers moved to Nashville to attend Belmont University where he later would receive a scholarship. He double-majored in music business and marketing. When he wasn’t in class, Jeffers spent his time interning/working at Starstruck Entertainment, Reba McEntire’s in-house company which handled her booking, management, publishing, promotion and touring. It was a one in a million opportunity for him to learn everything about the music business from the ground up, and he used the time working on his songwriting, pitching songs and recording.

Shortly after graduation, Jeffers was hired by Canadian country act The Wilkinsons as their Dobro and acoustic guitar player. Two years later, he came off the road to focus on his own group, Pinmonkey, an acoustic country/bluegrass-flavored band that was attracting considerable notice along Music Row. RCA Records signed Pinmonkey and in 2002, released the group’s first single, “Barbed Wire and Roses.” The song reached #25 on Billboard’s country chart, but despite critical acclaim and a loyal fan base, RCA eventually dropped the act without a second album.

In 2007, he started touring with country superstar, Carrie Underwood. In 2008, he authored and published his first book, 25 Notes for the Successful Musician, which started a speaking career for Jeffers.

Since then, Jeffers has worked steadily as an artist/musician/producer backing up some of music’s biggest names. In his travels, he’s played Live 8, appeared on nearly every major awards show from the Grammys to the American Music Awards to the CMA’s, and performed in front of hundreds of thousands of people around the world from Afghanistan to Japan.

For the past few years, he’s been an adjunct professor at Belmont University. He then went on to tour with Keith Urban, Kenny Loggins, Jamie O’Neal and many others.

In Fall 2019 he released, BackStage Notes, which is an intro course into the careers of Music, released by his publishing company. All along, he’s been giving talks and lectures on many different stages.

When he isn’t in the studio producing other artists or touring the world, he focuses on inspiring others and helping people with their creativity and music careers through speaking on stages around the world.