Clay S. Cooper is a musician and Director of Clay Cooper Theatre.

Clay Cooper has been performing for Branson audiences since the age of 16, originally coming there to perform with a kid’s band known as the Texas Goldminors. Since 1986, Clay has worked for many area shows, including the Country Review Show in Eureka Springs, the Down Home Country Show, the Buck Trent Show, the Jim Owens Show and Country Tonite, where he spent nine years as a lead vocalist.

In 1989, Evergreen Records released Clay's single "A Little Ground in Texas" which went to #60 on the Cash Box charts.

In 2003, Clay Cooper joined his friend, Paul Harris, as the featured male vocalist in Paul Harris Live. Clay and his wife, Tina, began Clay Cooper’s Country Express in 2005 in Branson, Missouri.

Clay Cooper was born to a musical family in Wylie, Texas. His grandmother played the piano for the Wylie Baptist church and gave piano lessons for twenty years. His dad played guitar and performed at all local Opry shows. Clay first began singing at the Wylie Opry at the age of fourteen and continued to perform there until 1986, when he then joined the Texas Goldminors and moved to Branson, performing at the Ozarks Country Jubilee.

Now Clay has a wife, Tina, and three children, Colton, Caden and Cassidy.