Seventy-eight years ago today, the rodeo champ who became a country star after Garth Brooks name-dropped him was born.

At last Ned LeDoux is on a song with his late father, Chris LeDoux. It's been 20 years since the rodeo star and country singer passed away. Now, the younger LeDoux is combining his voice with his ...

Chris LeDoux has a story that can be described as the plucky underdog who overcame significant odds and earned a world record in rodeo, only to go on to become a celebrated cowboy singer with the ...

Chris LeDoux grew up loving music and rodeo, the two passions he built his life around equally. For a talented bareback rider who had worked his way up through the ranks, the transition into a ...

Ned LeDoux was born in 1977, shortly after his father, Chris LeDoux, earned the world championship title in rodeo bareback bronc riding. For several years previous, his father had also chased a ...

2005 - Singer/songwriter Chris LeDoux, who became a cult favorite on the rodeo circuit during the 1970s, dies in a Casper, Wy., hospital after a lengthy illness. He is 56. By Billboard Staff 2005 – ...

CHEYENNE — Rodeo and country music fans mourned the death of Chris LeDoux, a former world champion bareback rider who parlayed songs about the rodeo life into a successful country music career.