Randy Bruce Traywick (born May 4, 1959), known professionally as Randy Travis , is an American country music and country music singer Christian, songwriter, guitarist and actor.
Active since 1978, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 50 singles on the Billboard charts Hot Country Songs, including sixteen that reached No. 1. 1. Considered an important figure in the history of country music, Travis broke through in the mid-1980s with the release of his album Storms of Life, which sold over four million copies. The album sets it as a major force in the neotraditional state movement. Travis followed up his successful debut with a series of platinum and multi-platinum albums. He is known for his distinctive baritone vocals, delivered in a traditional style that has made him a country music star since the 1980s.
In the mid-1990s, Travis saw a decline in his success chart. In 1997, he left Warner Bros. Records for DreamWorks Records and later for Word Records, where he began recording more Christian material. Although the career shift only resulted in yet another number one country that hit "Three Wooden Crosses," Travis went on to earn several Dove Awards, including the State Album of the Year five times. In addition to his singing career, he pursued an acting career, appearing in numerous movies and television series, including The Rainmaker 1997 with Matt Damon, Black Dog (1998) with Patrick Swayze, Texas Rangers (2001) with James Van Der Beek, and seven episodes of the television series Touched by an Angel.
Travis has sold more than 25 million records and has won six Grammy Awards, six CMA Awards, nine ACM Awards, 10 AMA Awards, eight Dove Awards, and stars at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2016, Travis was named Hall of Fame Country Music.
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Randy Bruce Traywick was born on May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina, the second child of six brothers Bobbie (May 16, 1937-May 21, 1998), a textile factory worker, and Harold Traywick (31 March 1933-8 October 2016), a horse breeder, a turkey farmer, a substitute school teacher, and a construction business owner.
Randy and his brother, Ricky, are encouraged to pursue their musical talents by their father, who is a fan of Hank Williams, George Jones, and Lefty Frizzell. In 1967, at the age of eight, Randy began playing guitar and singing in the chorus of his Church of Christ. Two years later, he and his brother began performing at local clubs and talent contests, calling themselves Traywick Brothers. Randy often quarreled with his father and immediately dropped out of school. He became a naughty teenager and was arrested for various offenses, including car theft and robbery. Travis has since voiced remorse for his mistakes in the past.
In 1975, when his brother was sentenced in prison for pursuing high-speed cars, Randy won a talent contest at nightclub, Country City USA, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The owner of the club, Elizabeth "Lib" Hatcher, was interested in the young singer, hired him as a chef, and gave him regular singing jobs at the club. During the late 1970s, Randy worked and sang in Country City USA. Still at the end of his teenage years, Travis had another meeting with the law. At his trial, the judge informs Travis that if he sees the singer returning to his palace, he must be ready to go to jail for a long time. Travis is released to the Hatcher trust, who is also his manager. Both began to focus on his career on a full-time basis.
In 1978, he recorded a self-titled album, Randy Traywick , for Paula Records. One single from the album, "She's My Woman", spent four weeks on the Billboard charts Hot Country Songs with No. 1. 91. The second single, "I'll Take Any Willing Woman", failed to map it entirely. Travis moved in with Hatcher, which was increasingly burdening his already fragile marriage. She eventually left her husband and, in 1982, she and Travis moved to Nashville, Tennessee. During this time an unlikely romance begins to form between the two. Travis then commented, "I think we found out how much we needed each other." He and Hatcher eventually advanced with their relationship and married in a private ceremony in 1991.
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Music career
During the early 1980s, Travis was rejected by every major record label in Nashville. Demo tapes were initially criticized by record executives as "country too." To support them, Hatcher took a job as nightclub manager, The Nashville Palace, and hired Travis as a cook and singer, where he performed under the name of Randy Ray. In 1982, Travis recorded an independent album Stay at the Nashville Palace , and Hatcher used the album to secure a deal with the Nashville Warner Bros. branch. Records. As part of the contract, label executives insist they keep their romance a secret, and rename the stage again to Randy Travis.
In 1985, Warner Bros. Records released the single "On the Other Hand" which reached No. 1. 67 on the country charts. The next single, "1982", became the Top 10 hit single. In 1986, Warner Bros. re-released "On the Other Hand", and the re-release became Travis's first single. 1 on the graph. These songs are included in their major-label debut Storms of Life, which produces yet another country's number one in "Diggin 'Up Bones", plus "No Place Like Home", which holds No. 1. Ã,2 positions on the Billboard country chart in early 1987. "On the Other Side", "Diggin 'Up Bones", and "No Place Like Home" were all co-written by Paul Overstreet. "Diggin 'Up Bones" also won his first Travis Grammy Award in 1986, for Best Male Vocal Country Performance. The Storm of Life received the highest certified American Association of Industry Record sales certifications in 1992, when it was triple-platinum certified for delivery of 3 million copies. The album's producer is Kyle Lehning, who will also serve in this capacity for most of Travis's next album.
Travis's second album for Warner Bros. is Always & amp; Forever . Released in April 1987, it was recorded for four singles, all of which were made No. 1 on "Billboard": "Forever and Ever, Amen" (also written by Overstreet), "I Will not Need You Again (Always and Forever)", "Too Gone Too Long", and "I've Already Say ", the last one written by Travis himself. Of these, "Forever and Ever, Amen" topped the list for three weeks. Always & amp; Forever won Travis, his second Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1987. Old 8ÃÆ' â € "10 , his third album, was released in July 1988. His first three singles," Honky Tonk Moon "," Deeper Than the Holler ", and" Is It Still Over? ", All reached No. 1 also, while "Promise" is less successful at No. 17. The album reached the highest certification of RIAA double-platinum in 1996. This was followed by Travis's first Christmas album, An Old Time Christmas , end of 1989.
In 1989, Travis recorded the cover of "It's Just a Matter of Time", originally recorded by Brook Benton thirty years earlier. Travis cut the song for a multi-artist tribute album titled Rock, Rhythm & amp; Blues which was also released by Warner Bros., and persuaded the label to include it on what would become his fourth Warner album, No Holdin 'Back . The Travis version of the song, produced by Richard Perry (who also provides bass vocals on it), was the lead single for the album, and charted at No. 1. 1 on the National Hot Song in December 1989. This is the second time that the song's rendition has topped the country charts, as Sonny James has previously sent his version to No. 1. 1 in 1970. Two more singles were released from No Holdin 'Back : "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart", which became Travis's longest number one in four weeks in 1990, and "He Walked on Water ", which peaked at No. 1. 3. The album includes one other cover song, "Singing the Blues", along with the song "Somewhere in My Broken Heart", co-written and then recorded by Billy Dean.
1990s
Travis's sixth studio album, Heroes & amp; Friends , almost entirely of duets. It produced only two singles: "A Little Ole Country Boys" (featuring George Jones) and the title track, was also the only cut solo on the album, both making top 10 on the country music charts in 1991. Other artists included BB King and Clint Eastwood. The other piece of the album is "We're Strangers Again", a duet with Tammy Wynette. Written by Merle Haggard and Leona Williams, the song originally appeared on their 1983 duo album Heart to Heart . Appearances by Travis and Wynette later appeared on the final compilation of Best Loved Hits for Epic Records, which published it as a single in August 1991.
Also in 1991, Travis took part in "Voices That Care", a multi-artist project featuring other top names in music for single singles to raise money for allied forces in the Gulf War. The project includes fellow singers Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers, and Kathy Mattea. In addition, Travis recorded the patriotic song "Point of Light" in response to a Thousand point light program initiated by George H. W. Bush, who was then President of the United States. This song is also the main single for Warner's seventh album, High Lonesome . The album produced three more singles, which Travis co-wrote with fellow country singer Alan Jackson: "Forever Together", "Better Class of Losers", and "I'll Surrender All".
Warner Bros. released two Greatest Hits volume packages in September 1992: Hits Largest, Volume 1 and Hits Largest, Volume 2 . One of each compilations is made no. 1 year: "If I Do not Belong You" from Volume 1 , and "View Heart, No Hands" from Volume 2 . Also released from Volume 1 is "An Old Pair of Shoes", mapped in No. 21. Later in 1992, Travis intercepted the album Wind in the Wire, a Western-inspired music disc of cowboys intended to accompany a television movie of the same name in which Travis appeared. This disc is the first to not produce a single top 40 countries. Because of Wind in the Wire and other TV movies in which he starred in, Travis took time off from recording and touring for much of 1993. He then told Billboard that " this perception that I really stopped ".
Lehning commented on Travis's ninth album, This Is Me , that the singer seemed to "rise again", while Travis himself said that the songs in it seemed more "rowdy" than those on the previous album. Four singles from the album charted: "Before You Kill Us All", "Whisper My Name" (which peaked at No. 1 in 1994), the title track, and "The Box". His last album for Warner was 1996's Full Circle, featuring singles "Are We in Trouble Now" (written by Mark Knopfler), "Would I", and "Price to Pay", the last of which failed reaching top 40 countries. Also in 1996, Travis covered Roger Miller's "King of the Road" for the soundtrack for Traveler . This performance, issued by Asylum Records, spent 15 weeks on the country charts although it only peaked at No. 1. 51.
Travis signed with DreamWorks Records in 1998, where he released You and You Alone. For this album, Travis co-produced with Byron Gallimore (famous for his work with Tim McGraw) and James Stroud. The main artists on the disc include Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, and Melba Montgomery. Actor Patrick Swayze also contributed backing vocals on the song "I Did My Part". His singles are "Out of My Bones", "The Hole", "Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man" (co-authored by former Styx member Glen Burtnik), and "Foreigner in My Mirror". The only other DreamWorks album, A Man Is not Made of Stone , was followed in 1999. Also produced by Stroud and Gallimore, produced 20 hit songs in the title track, but three other singles all failed to reach the top 40.
2000s
Travis's career since 2000 and beyond is dominated by Christian country music. Her first complete album in the genre, 2000's Inspirational Journey , was released via Word Records. One cut of this album, "Baptism", was originally recorded by Kenny Chesney as a duet with Travis on 1999's Chesney's album Everywhere We Go. The version that appears on Inspirational Journey , a solo performance by Travis, is mapped in No. 75 on the state charts in late 2000. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Travis recorded a patriotic song "America Will Always Stand", mapped through the distribution of Relentless Records.
Travis' most successful effort in Christian country music is "Three Wooden Crosses". Released in December 2002 as the lead single for her album Rise and Shine, the song became the sixteenth and last single. 1 in early 2003. Followed by Worship & amp; Faith , largely consisting of Gospel standards, in 2003. The album achieved RIAA gold certification three years after its release. After that came Passing Through , which contributed his last solo chart entry in "Four Walls" and "Angels". The Glory Train: Songs of Faith, Worship, and Praise in 2005 were also largely made up of the Gospel cover, while their second Christmas album, Songs of the Season, followed in the year 2007.
Around the Bend in 2008 returned Travis to the traditional country style, coinciding with his comeback to Warner Bros.. Nashville. Stephen Thomas Erlewine notes about Travis's career in previous years whose turn to Christian music "brings sweet fruit, produces a series of good and sincere notes, but they also have great side effects by putting the way of commercialism behind the burner, as the Gospel album is made without graph in mind "while adding that" Around the Bend "is separate from the trend, not challenging but comfortable." In 2009, Carrie Underwood covered "I Tell You So" with Travis on duet vocals, and a collaborative version this is mapped in No. 2 on the country charts. Travis released two album covers in 2013 and 2014: The Influence of Vol. 1: The Man I Am , and Influence Vol. 2: The Man I Am .
In 2016, Travis was selected as one of 30 artists appearing in the music video for "Forever Country", mash-up song Take Me Home, Country Roads, On the Road Again and I Will Always Love You celebrating 50 years of CMA Awards.
Personal life
Travis and Lib Hatcher divorced on October 29, 2010 after a 19-year marriage, and their business relationship ended thereafter. He married Mary Davis on March 21, 2015.
Legal issues of 2012
Travis was arrested in February 2012, when he was found in a car parked outside a church in Sanger, Texas with a bottle of wine open and smelling of alcohol. Travis's Chrysalis Ranch is outside Tioga, Texas, about 20 miles from Sanger.
On August 7, 2012, state troops in Grayson County, Texas responded to a call that an unclothed man was lying on the street. The police reported that they had arrived to find Travis not dressed and smelling of alcohol. The Texas Highway Patrol said that Travis crashed his car in the construction zone, and when they tried to catch him, Travis threatened the lives of the troops. Travis was later arrested for drunk driving and the threat of terrorism against public servants. He sent a guarantee of $ 21,500. Earlier that same night, just before DUI's arrest, Travis allegedly walked to the Tiger Mart store, naked, demanding cigarettes from the cashier, who in turn called the authorities. According to the store clerk, Travis left the store after realizing that he had no money to pay for cigarettes.
On January 31, 2013, Travis pleaded guilty to the August 7 incident and received two years probation, a $ 2,000 fine and a 180-day jail term.
Disease in 2013
On July 7, 2013, Travis was hospitalized in a Dallas area for viral cardiomyopathy following a viral upper respiratory infection. His condition is critical. Three days later, Travis suffered a major stroke and underwent surgery to reduce the pressure on his brain. On July 15, 2013, it was reported that Travis was awake and alert after brain surgery, his heart pumping without the aid of a machine, and that he was on his way to recovery. She was released from Baylor Heart Hospital in Plano, Texas on July 31, 2013, and entered a physical therapy facility. After a stroke, and despite physical therapy, Travis can not sing or speak and must rely on a walking stick for more than a year. In November 2014, he slowly recovered, could walk a short distance without help and re-learn how to write and play guitar, according to him-his fiancée Mary Davis.
By 2016, it is reported he has restored his voice after about three years of rehabilitation and therapy and can do again. He attended his induction into the State Music Hall of Fame on October 16, 2016, where he performed the "Amazing Grace" rendition.
Discography
Movieography
Television
Movies
Awards
Further reading
- Cusic, Don (1990). Randy Travis: New Traditionalist King of the Country . St. Martin's Press. ISBNÃ, 0-312-04412-7.
- Roland, Tom (1991). The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits . Billboard book. ISBNÃ, 0-8230-7553-2.
References
External links
- Randy Travis at IMDb
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