1. Audrey Faith McGraw, known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer and actress.
48 Facts About Faith Hill
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Faith Hill is one of the most successful country music artists of all time, having sold almost 50 million albums worldwide.
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Faith Hill produced her first international hit, "This Kiss", while her album Breathe became one of the best-selling country albums of all time.
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In 2001, Faith Hill recorded "There You'll Be" for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack and it too became an international success.
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Faith Hill has won five Grammy Awards, 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, six American Music Awards, and several other awards.
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From 2007 to 2012, Faith Hill was the voice of NBC Sunday Night Football intro song.
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Faith Hill received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.
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Faith Hill has been married to American singer Tim McGraw since 1996, with whom she has recorded several duets.
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Audrey Faith Hill Perry was born in Ridgeland, Mississippi, north of Jackson, Mississippi.
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Faith Hill was adopted as an infant and named Audrey Faith Perry.
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Faith Hill was raised in the nearby town of Star, 20 miles southeast of Jackson by her adoptive parents, Edna and Ted Perry, with their two biological sons in a devout Christian environment.
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Faith Hill began singing at Star Baptist Church at age 3.
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At 17, Faith Hill formed a band that played at local rodeos.
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Faith Hill graduated from McLaurin Attendance Center in 1986, then briefly attended Hinds Junior College in Raymond, Mississippi.
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At age 19 Faith Hill dropped out of college to move to Nashville and pursue her dream of being a country singer.
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Faith Hill landed a job at a local McDonald's restaurant franchise, which she intensely disliked.
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Faith Hill supplemented this work by singing backup vocals for songwriter Gary Burr, who often performed his new songs at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe.
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Records was in the audience, and, impressed with Faith Hill's voice, began the process of signing her to a recording contract.
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In 1994, she and Daniel Faith Hill divorced shortly after the release of her album.
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Faith Hill became the first female country singer in 30 years to hold Billboard number one position for four consecutive weeks when "Wild One" managed the feat in 1994.
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In spring 1996, Faith Hill began the Spontaneous Combustion Tour with country singer Tim McGraw.
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At the time Faith Hill had recently become engaged to her former producer, Scott Hendricks, and McGraw had recently broken an engagement.
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McGraw and Faith Hill were quickly attracted to each other and began a relationship.
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Faith Hill re-entered the music business in 1998 with her third album Faith.
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Faith Hill immediately released Breathe in November 1999 following this success; it debuted at the top of the Billboard Country and all genre charts, ahead of albums by Mariah Carey and Savage Garden.
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Faith Hill was named to Mr Blackwell's 10-best dressed women of 2000, the only singer listed among actresses and other celebrities.
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In 2001, Faith Hill recorded a song for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack.
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In 2005, Faith Hill returned with her new country album, Fireflies.
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Faith Hill recorded two other songs by Rich, "Sunshine and Summertime" and "Like We Never Loved at All", both of which became successful singles.
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In 2007, Faith Hill began work on her first domestic greatest hits package, titled The Hits, which was released on October 2.
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Faith Hill is featured on McGraw's 2007 album Let It Go where she sings two duets with him, "I Need You" and "Shotgun Rider".
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At the beginning of the 2007 NFL season, Faith Hill replaced Pink as the signature voice of NFL on NBC's Sunday Night Football, singing the weekly game's introductory theme song; of which the show's producer said:.
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In September 2008, Faith Hill issued her first Christmas album, titled Joy to the World.
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Faith Hill worked on the album for two years prior to its official release.
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Faith Hill contributed her vocals to the Ryan Tedder penned song "All I Ever Wanted" for the 2010 film Life As We Know It.
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Brendan O'Brien, known for producing projects for Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, and Rage Against the Machine began working with Faith Hill and producing her next album, originally set for release in 2011.
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Faith Hill worked with pop producer Brian Kennedy in January 2011 to complete the album.
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Faith Hill returned to the studio in March 2011 for another round of recording.
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In June 2012, Faith Hill debuted the songs "Illusion" and "Overrated" during her set at the CMA Music Festival.
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Faith Hill sent out a tweet via her official Twitter account announcing the release of a new compilation album after the announcement of the tour.
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Faith Hill has a mezzo-soprano vocal range, which Joanna Horowitz of The Seattle Times described as unmistakably "throaty".
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Faith Hill co-wrote two tracks on her debut album Take Me as I Am: "I've Got This Friend" and "Go the Distance".
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In 1997, Faith Hill guest starred in a three episode arc of popular television series Touched by an Angel and its subsequent spin off series, Promised Land.
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In 2002 it was rumored that Faith Hill had won the role of Julia Compton Moore, the wife of Hal Moore, played by Mel Gibson, in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers.
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Faith Hill made her film debut in the summer of 2004, when she co-starred with Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick and Glenn Close in director Frank Oz's remake of the 1975 thriller The Stepford Wives.
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In 2015, Faith Hill appeared in the independent crime drama film Dixieland.
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On October 14,2015, it was announced that Faith Hill would be an executive producer for a new lifestyle television program with former Oprah executive producer Lisa Erspamer.
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Faith Hill appeared in one episode of Yellowstone season four in a flashback scene.