Tim McGraw is a three-time Grammy winning American singer, songwriter and actor. He has sold over 40 million albums and had 25 singles hit number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. McGraw had a successful music career in the 1990s and 2000s, taking over as the most popular male singer in country music. He has also had success as an actor appearing in movies such as The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights.

1. “TIM MCGRAW”
Tim McGraw is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer, song writer, actor and a country music superstar who
has sold over 40 million albums. McGraw had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard albums
charts. Twenty-five singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. He has won three Grammys, 14 Academy
of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and three
People’s Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill (his wife) is the highest grossing tour in country music
history, and one of the top five among all genres of music.
He was born on May 1, 1967 in Delhi, Louisiana. His father, Tug McGraw, was a baseball player, a star relief pitcher
for the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets who’d had a brief affair with McGraw’s mother. He was raised mostly
in the small town of Start, Louisiana, near Monroe, and grew up listening to a variety of music: country, pop, rock, and
R&B. He attended Northeast Louisiana University on a baseball scholarship, studying sports medicine, and then he
started playing guitar to accompany his singing. He played the local club circuit and dropped out of school in 1989,

2. heading to Nashville on the same day his hero Keith Whitley passed away. He sang in Nashville clubs for a couple of
years and landed a deal with Curb in 1992. His debut single, the minor hit “Welcome to the Club,” was released later
that year, and his self-titled debut album appeared in 1993 but failed to make the charts.
Tim McGraw debuted in the early ’90s, few have predicted that he would eventually take over Garth Brooks’ position
as the most popular male singer in country music. Yet that’s exactly what he did, because of his multi-platinum
albums, a high-profile marriage to fellow superstar Faith Hill, and Brooks’ own inevitable decline. His sound
characterized the strain of commercial country that dominated his era: updated honky-tonk and Southern-fried
country-rock on the uptempo tunes, well-polished, adult contemporary-tinged pop on the ballads. By the late ’90s, he
was not only a superstar among country fans, but a mainstream celebrity with a large female following.
McGraw has endeavored into acting, Four Christmases (with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), Friday Night
Lights, The Kingdom, with supporting roles in The Blind Side (with Sandra Bullock), and lead roles in Flicka (2006)
and Country Strong (2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League’s Nashville Kats. Taylor Swift’s
debut single, “Tim McGraw”, refers to him and his song, “Can’t Tell Me Nothin’ “. In acknowledgement of his
grandfather’s Italian heritage, He was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in 2004, receiving
the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Music during the Foundation’s 29th Anniversary Gala.
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