Darius Rucker founded the Grammy Award-winning rock band Hootie & the Blowfish , after 1988 .
He first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Hootie & the Blowfish , which he founded in 1989 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan , Jim `` Soni '' Sonefeld and Dean Felber .
Darius Rucker