About Speechless

Dan + Shay is an American country music duo composed of vocalists and songwriters Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney. They are signed to Warner Bros. Records Nashville and have released three albums, Where It All Began which produced three top 40 singles on Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay, Obsessed, and Dan + Shay.

Daniel Smyers (born August 16, 1987 (age 31)) was raised in Wexford, Pennsylvania, where he attended North Allegheny Senior High School. He attended Carnegie Mellon University to study finance and play football. Smyers has been in a relationship with Abby Law for a few years. Smyers and Law became engaged in 2016. Abby made a cameo in Dan+Shay lyric video for their song "Nothin' Like You." Dan and Abby got married on May 13, 2017. James Shay Mooney (born December 27, 1991 (age 26)) was raised in Natural Dam, Arkansas, and attended Union Christian Academy (Fort Smith, Arkansas) and Van Buren High School (Van Buren, Arkansas). Following high school, he attended Valley Forge Christian College for one year before completely pursuing his music career. He was in a relationship with country singer Veronica Ballestrini from January 2012 to March 2013. During their relationship, they would post cover and original songs on YouTube and reached over 150,000 views combined. He wrote a song for Ballestrini's sophomore album Flip Side entitled "Lonely Alone". He is the subject of her song "Death of Me," and he also sang background on it. Ballestrini's album was released on June 17, 2014. Mooney and Smyers song "Nothin' Like You" is about Ballestrini. On October 8, 2016, Mooney announced on Instagram that he and his fiancée Hannah Billingsley were expecting a baby together. On January 24, 2017, Billingsley gave birth to their son, Asher James Mooney. Mooney and Billingsley were married on October 20, 2017 in Arkansas.

Before the duo's foundation, Mooney was a solo artist on T-Pain's Nappy Boy Entertainment label, and Smyers was a member of a group called Bonaventure as well as a previous member of the band Transition on Floodgate Records.