 Darius Rucker, the former frontman for the Grammy Award-winning rock band Hootie and the Blowfish, stopped at Naval Station Rota as part of a European concert tour of U.S. military installations. Rucker has been visiting military installations for quite some time now, and his reasons for doing so are simple. I think the armed forces are such an important part of America, an important part of living free the way that I do, and so anytime I can come overseas or even at home and play shows for them, I always take advantage of that. Again, we try to give them an hour and a half of home and hopefully they go away thinking that was good. With hits in both rock and country, it's safe to say perseverance is one of Rucker's strengths, but he couldn't have done it alone. I don't mind doing what it takes to make it, but I just think really luck in having the right important people believe in you is really what it's done for me. Corporal Tony Nardiolo wrote a spain.