William Kenneth Alphin, best known by his stage name Big Kenny, is an American country music singer. He and John Rich comprise the duo Big & Rich, who recorded four studio albums and charted fifteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

John Rich is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the country band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar, co-writing his inaugural #1 hit song called "Come Cryin'To Me" and sharing lead vocal duties with Richie McDonald. Departing from Lonestar in 1998, he ventured into a solo career under BNA Records in the late 1990s, where he released two singles and recorded "Underneath the Same Moon", which was delayed until 2006. In 2001, he singlehandedly released "Rescue Me", an album inspired by a cancer patient named Katie Darnell. By 2003, he teamed up with Big Kenny to establish the duo Big & Rich, achieving success with three albums under Warner Bros. Records as well as ten singles, notably chart topper "Lost in This Moment". After Big & Rich went on hiatus in 2007, Rich began work on a third solo album, "Son of a Preacher Man", yielding two more chart singles including the Top Ten hit songs "Shutting Detroit Down." In 2011, he released two extended plays, "Rich Rocks" and "For the Kids", before re-vitalizing Big & Rich in 2012. They launched "Big and Rich Records" in 2014, experiencing considerable success with big hits like "Look At You", "Loving Lately", and "Run Away With You."