Faith Hill

Biography of Faith Hill

She was adopted when she was a baby, and she was given the name Audrey Faith Perry. Her adoptive parents were Edna and Ted Perry, who raised her alongside her two biological children in a devout Christian family in the city of Star.

At 19, she moved to Nashville, where she got a job selling t-shirts. Some time later, she was hired by Gary Morris (a Nashville company), where she worked until a year before her professional debut with musician/songwriter Gary Burr, who became her co-producer.

Her first album "Take Me As I Am" (1994) went gold a year after it was released. Also in 1994, her second single "Piece of My Heart" became a number one. The following year her second album, "It Matters to Me", was released.

In the spring of 1998 she released her third album "Faith", which contains the hit "The Secret of Life".

In 2001 she recorded "There You'll Be" for the soundtrack of the film Pearl Harbor and in 2002, she released her album "Cry", which rose directly to number one on the Billboard chart.

Hill won five Grammy Awards, 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, six American Music Awards among other awards. Her 2006 Soul2Soul II tour with McGraw became the highest-grossing country tour of all time.

In 2001, she was named one of the "30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies Home Journal.

From 2007 to 2012, she was the voice of NBC's Sunday Night Football.

In June 2010, along with her husband Tim McGraw, she organized Nashville Rising, a benefit concert in support of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in response to flooding in early May that killed 22 people and lost millionaires.

In 1988, shemarriedproducerDaniel Hill.

She divorced in 1994 and remarried in 1996 to Nashville starTim McGraw.