Jul 11, 2008
Former Howard Payne basketball standout Coffey Anderson is one of the final six contestants remaining on NBC's Nashville Star. As a 6-6 forward for the Yellow Jackets, Anderson averaged 9.5 points per game from 1999-2002, scoring 828 points and shooting 43 percent from the field, 80 percent from the line.
&&b-boxr&&Anderson, who also appeared on the second season of American Idol, has been pursuing a singing/songwriting career for several years in Los Angeles and was one of 45,000 people who auditioned.
He has performed songs ranging from CCR's Proud Mary to John Mayer's Waiting for the World to Change. The show airs Monday nights at 9 p.m. ET.