George Strait Biography

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George Strait
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George Strait may have been like many teenagers in the '60s and '70s who tried for musical success with a rock 'n roll garage band, but for this Texas troubadour that fascination was short-lived. Born May 18, 1952 in Poteet, Texas to a junior high school teacher who also worked the farm that had been in the family some 100 years, Strait grew up listening to country music and later became enamored with the western swing sounds of Bob Wills and later Merle Haggard. Graduating from high school, he went to college but dropped out to marry his high school sweetheart, Norma. He enlisted in the Army in 1971 and eventually was stationed in Hawaii. He said aloha to that state's music and began playing country, first with an Army-sponsored band called Rambling Country that also played off-base at Santee. He left the Army in 1975 to go back to college, studying agriculture at Southwestern Texas State University, where he formed his band, Ace In The Hole. (His 1989 hit "Ace In The Hole" had no connection with that band.) As the '70s drew to a close, Strait's band was struggling. It made some records that failed to ignite any interest and in 1977, he began making occasional trips to Nashville. With no connections, he finally gave up on Music City. But Norma persuaded him to keep trying and before long he made a connection with a club owner, Erv Woolsey, who had connections with MCA Records. He was signed in 1980 and Woolsey became his manager. The first single was "Unwound", which went to No. 6 on country charts and triggered two more hits. Scoring a cameo role in the movie, "The Soldier," he hit No. 1 with "Fool Hearted Memory." from that movie. Since then, he has had more than 30 chart-toppers, including the 1985 "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?" and "Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye" in 1989. His sound was a distinct look back at earlier country music as he incorporated fiddles and steel guitar to recall '50s-style honky tonk country in his band. And, Strait has continued to make big waves in country as he continually hits the Top 10 charts. Along the way he has sold an astonishing number of recordings, in albums and singles and in large boxed CD sets. Strait kept his old time love of earlier country alive by recording a tribute to Lefty Frizzell, "Lefty's Gone." He also had a personal tragedy in 1986 when daughter Jennifer was killed in an auto accident. Said to be still connected to the family farm, Strait's white-Stetsoned image is hardly a rebellious outlaw look. He is still a major concert attraction as well as record-seller and has won a number of awards, including the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year in 1989. He has also won pop success, albeit in a lesser way. His 1998 album "Always Never the Same" topped out at No. 38, "Meanwhile" at No. 27, and "Write This Down" in the pop Top 40 in early 1999. The latter song also spent four weeks at No. 1 in country. He released the "George Strait" CD in late 2000 and saw the single "Go On" become a hit.

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