Born on September 21, 1967, in Jackson,
Mississippi, Faith is a beautiful sexy
country and western singer and performer.
She grew up in Star, Mississippi, and Faith
is a true star in the world of country
music. Her stellar blend of folksy charm,
genuine sincerity, and the talent of a
legend has kept her consistently on the
charts.
Faith would sing whenever she could, family
reunions, during high school, at churches,
rodeos and country fairs. At 19, Faith
figured she was ready to try her luck in the
city of Nashville, ground zero for country
music. Things didn't quite pan out as she
planned, and Faith ended up selling T-shirts
before nabbing a job as a receptionist at a
music publishing company. Faith admits she
was "a closet singer" around the
office for a year or so, until one of the
in-house writers, David Chase, overheard her
and convinced her to cut a demo of a song
called "It Scares Me". Faith
played it for her boss, Gary Morris, who
proceeded to give her the kick in the pants
she needed to pursue her music career.
Faith, now following her dream, visited the
famed Bluebird Café to sing harmony with
composer Gary Burr, and soon Faith was
singing with him regularly. At one of those
Bluebird gigs, she got her long deserved
break when Warner Bros. rep Martha Sharp,
asked Faith for a demo tape. Faith's debut,
"Take Me As I Am", hit the streets
in 1994. Her hit song, "Wild One",
featured Faith's take on Janis Joplin's
hard-rockin' classic, "Piece of My
Heart". Faith's single, "Take Me
As I Am", has sold over two million
copies, and also nailed the Academy of
Country Music's Top New Female Artist Award.
Faith was now a full fledged country music
star, and hit the road in a big way touring
with country superstars Reba McEntire,
Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson and George
Strait. In 1996 she played over 140 dates in
the United States with Tim McGraw, a road
trip that turned out to be one of the top
grossing tours of the year. In 1996, in
addition to savoring the success of her
second album, Faith married her hunky
touring partner, Tim McGraw.
Faith and Tim have two beautiful daughters,
Gracie and Maggie. In 1998, following a
brief but devoted period of mothering, Faith
got back into the studio to make her third
album, "Faith". The album, of
course, yielded "This Kiss", the
smash that transformed the singer from
country music sensation to mega-star. This
song helped Faith sell over three million
copies, and earned her, not one, but five
Academy of Country Music Awards. Next thing
she knew, she was singing alongside Cher,
Whitney Houston and Tina Turner. Faith has
transformed herself from simply a talented
Mississippi country girl to one of the
country's most celebrated, but still down
home, country music divas.
The Faith Hill Family Literacy Project,
designed to help combat illiteracy
worldwide, launched in 1996. Hill's concern
for family literacy is a result of her own
family's firsthand experience with the
issue. Her father, one of 14 children, never
learned to read after being forced to quit
school in order to help support his family.
Hill's dream is that "someday every
person will be able to read."
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