Phil Stacey's Debut Single Due Next Week

1/4/2008 Stephen L. Betts American Idol season six finalist Phil Stacey will release his debut single, "If You Didn't Love Me" to country radio on Monday (1/7). Produced by Wayne Kirkpatrick (Little Big Town) and written by Wendell Mobley, Jason Sellers and Rascal Flatts' Gary LeVox, it’s the first release from Phil's upcoming debut disc, scheduled for an April 2008 release. “I'm so excited to have found this song and that it'll be my very first single,” says Phil. "The lyrics of the song mean a lot to me because it's a great love song that everyone can relate to and I feel like it tells the story of my marriage. I've been blessed with an amazingly supportive wife [Kendra] and with all the things we've been through together - whether it was in college, the military or even on American Idol - having her there made everything so much easier and put joy into everything we went through. I don't know where I'd be today without her.” Phil grew up singing in his father's church in Fairfield, Ohio and studied vocal performance at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn. In 2003, he enlisted in the United States Navy where he served as a Musician Third Class at Navy Band Southeast in Jacksonville, Fla.  During his competition on the sixth season of American Idol, Phil’s renditions of the country hits “Where the Blacktop Ends,” “The Change,” and “I Need You” were among his most praised performances of the season. Following American Idol, Phil toured with his fellow contestants over the summer on a 55-city tour before moving to Nashville with wife Kendra and their two daughters to pursue his country music career.