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McGraw, Tim

American musician

original name Samuel Timothy Smith

born May 1, 1967, Delhi, La., U.S.

American musician, whose melodic, heartfelt songs and sandy Southern twang made him one of the most popular country music singers in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Raised by a single mother, McGraw was 11 years old before he discovered that his father was famed professional baseball pitcher Tug McGraw. After dropping out of college in 1989 to move to Nashville, he found work as a club performer and signed a record contract with Curb Records in 1990. McGraw's 1993 debut recording was unsuccessful, but his follow-up, Not a Moment Too Soon, became the biggest-selling country album of 1994 (and the sixth best-selling album of the year in any genre). His celebrity spread with the release of All I Want (1995) and with his high-profile marriage in 1996 to country star Faith Hill (Hill, Faith). By 2000 he was well-established enough to release a 15-song greatest hits package, and 2001 found McGraw and Hill accepting a Grammy Award for their duet "Let's Make Love."

In 2002 McGraw broke with Nashville convention by recording with his touring band, the Dancehall Doctors (most artists employed session musicians in the studio and road musicians in concert), and by releasing the controversial single "Red Ragtop" ; a few country radio stations refused to play the song because its story line involved an abortion. In August 2004 McGraw released the album Live Like You Were Dying. Its title song, penned by Nashville songwriters Craig Wiseman and Tim Nichols, was a tribute to his father, who had died of brain cancer in January 2004. That same year McGraw's collaboration with rapper Nelly, "Over and Over," spent 12 weeks at number one on Billboard's Top 40 singles chart, making McGraw the only contemporary country singer to enjoy a vocal turn on a hit urban record. In 2007 he released the album Let It Go. In addition to his music career, McGraw also acted in several films, including Friday Night Lights (2004) and Flicka (2006).

词条	McGraw, Tim
释义	McGraw, Tim American musician original name Samuel Timothy Smith born May 1, 1967, Delhi, La., U.S. American musician, whose melodic, heartfelt songs and sandy Southern twang made him one of the most popular country music singers in the 1990s and early 2000s. Raised by a single mother, McGraw was 11 years old before he discovered that his father was famed professional baseball pitcher Tug McGraw. After dropping out of college in 1989 to move to Nashville, he found work as a club performer and signed a record contract with Curb Records in 1990. McGraw's 1993 debut recording was unsuccessful, but his follow-up, Not a Moment Too Soon, became the biggest-selling country album of 1994 (and the sixth best-selling album of the year in any genre). His celebrity spread with the release of All I Want (1995) and with his high-profile marriage in 1996 to country star Faith Hill (Hill, Faith). By 2000 he was well-established enough to release a 15-song greatest hits package, and 2001 found McGraw and Hill accepting a Grammy Award for their duet "Let's Make Love." In 2002 McGraw broke with Nashville convention by recording with his touring band, the Dancehall Doctors (most artists employed session musicians in the studio and road musicians in concert), and by releasing the controversial single "Red Ragtop" ; a few country radio stations refused to play the song because its story line involved an abortion. In August 2004 McGraw released the album Live Like You Were Dying. Its title song, penned by Nashville songwriters Craig Wiseman and Tim Nichols, was a tribute to his father, who had died of brain cancer in January 2004. That same year McGraw's collaboration with rapper Nelly, "Over and Over," spent 12 weeks at number one on Billboard's Top 40 singles chart, making McGraw the only contemporary country singer to enjoy a vocal turn on a hit urban record. In 2007 he released the album Let It Go. In addition to his music career, McGraw also acted in several films, including Friday Night Lights (2004) and Flicka (2006).
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