Faith Hill booking
One of the biggest female country stars of the ’90s, Faith Hill also took advantage of the inroads
Shania Twain made into pop territory, becoming an enormous crossover success by decade’s end. Of
course, Hill’s movie star good looks certainly helped her cause, and her much-celebrated marriage to
fellow country star Tim McGraw gave her career an extra kick of glamour and mystique. Hill may not
have appealed to country purists, but she had the star power of a diva even before her pop success.
Faith Hill was born Audrey Faith Perry on September 21, 1967, in Jackson, MS, and grew up in the
nearby small town of Star. She was singing for her family as young as age three and first performed
publicly at a 4-H luncheon when she was seven. Hill spent much of her childhood singing wherever the
opportunity arose, influenced primarily by Reba McEntire, and at age 17 formed a band that played
local rodeos. At 19, she quit college and moved to Nashville to make it as a singer, first finding work
selling T-shirts. During this time, she was married briefly to music executive Dan Hill. Eventually she
was hired as a secretary at a music publishing firm, where she was discovered by accident while
singing to herself one day. Encouraged by company head Gary Morris, Hill became a demo singer for
the firm and also performed professionally as a harmony vocalist behind singer/songwriter/producer
Gary Burr, who produced Hill’s own demo tape. A Warner Brothers executive caught Burr and Hill’s act
at a Nashville club, and wound up signing Hill to a solo deal.
Hill released her debut album, Take Me as I Am, in late 1993, with producer Scott Hendricks (also her
boyfriend) at the helm. Success wasn’t long in coming; the lead single “Wild One” raced up the country
charts en route to a four-week run at number one early the next year, making her the first female
country singer in 30 years to top the charts for that long with her debut single. The follow-up, a
countrified cover of Janis Joplin’s “Piece of My Heart,” also hit number one, as did the album’s title
track, and Take Me as I Am wound up selling over two million copies. Hill was set to build on her
success right away, but had to undergo surgery on her vocal cords, which delayed recording of her
next album. Nevertheless, the wait wasn’t unreasonable, and It Matters to Me appeared in the summer
of 1995. The title track became her fourth number one country single, and it was accompanied by a
string of Top Ten hits that helped push sales of the album past the three million mark. Hill was by now
a firmly established country hitmaker, and she continued her active touring schedule by teaming up
with Tim McGraw in 1996 for the Spontaneous Combustion Tour; it was an apt name, as Hill broke off
her engagement to Hendricks to marry McGraw that October. The couple’s first child, daughter Gracie,
was born in May of 1997, and not long after, their duet “It’s Your Love” — recorded for McGraw’s
Everywhere album — was burning up the country charts, hitting number one for six weeks. Hill returned
in the spring of 1998 with Faith, which provided the first signs that she was interested in crossing over
to pop audiences, even if the still-countrified music often straddled the fence instead of making her
ambitions explicit. The single “This Kiss” proved the savvy of her approach; not only did it top the
country charts for three weeks, but it also became her first pop hit, climbing to number seven. By the
time “This Kiss” had run its course on the charts, Hill had given birth to her second daughter by
McGraw, Maggie. If Hill had been a star in the country world, she was now rapidly becoming a
superstar, known not just for her music but also her pure celebrity; she also signed an endorsement
deal with Cover Girl makeup. Her next two singles, “Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me” (another
duet with McGraw) and “Let Me Let Go,” hit number one country, though they didn’t duplicate the pop
success of “This Kiss.” Faith became Hill’s biggest-selling album yet, moving over five million copies
and reaching the Top Ten on the LP charts; plus, it was now crystal clear that Hill potentially held
major crossover appeal. Accordingly, she re-entered the studio immediately after her supporting tour
and cut Breathe, a full-fledged bid for pop and adult contemporary success. Breathe entered the
charts at number one upon its release in late 1999, and its title track became Hill’s biggest hit yet; it
spent six weeks on top of the country charts and was an even bigger hit on the adult contemporary
charts. While it only climbed to number two pop, the single had such staying power that it wound up
the biggest hit of the year 2000. The follow-ups were pretty successful in their own right: “The Way
You Love Me” and “There You’ll Be” both hit the pop Top Ten, with the former topping the country charts and the latter hitting number one AC. Hill also scored a Top Ten country hit with “Let’s Make
Love,” a third duet with McGraw, and the two teamed up for another tour in 2000. Breathe was a bona
fide blockbuster, selling over seven million copies, and earned her a slew of award nominations. Hill
spent much of 2001 taking a break and spending time with Audrey, her third daughter with McGraw.
The next year, Hill returned to the spotlight with her fifth studio recording, Cry.
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