Tim McGraw: the all-American wholesome!

Talk about achieving success in both career and home. Quite unlike his father – famous baseball pitcher Tug McGraw – Tim has been scoring high in billboard country charts and doing very well in the home front. He is married to another famous country singer – Faith Hill. The couple has three lovely daughters.

Samuel Timothy McGraw was born in Louisiana on May 1, 1967 but he not aware that his real father was Tug McGraw until he was 11 years old. He grew up in Start, Louisiana and was raised by his mother, Betty Trimble. Tim loved baseball and he attended Northeast Louisiana University on a baseball scholarship. However, he dropped out in 1989 and headed for Nashville to kick start his singing career. In the beginning, he was singing for tips in HounDogs, a place that sells hotdogs in Nashville, where other famous singers performed at one time or another.

Curb Records signed Tim Graw for a recording contract in 1990 and had some minor hits like “Welcome to the Club”, “Memory Lane” and “Two Steppin’ Mind.”

Not a Moment Too Soon was his second album, and in 1994, was acclaimed as the best selling country album. It sold more than 5 million copies, topped the Billboard 200 charts, and won two awards that same year: Album of the Year and Top New Male Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music.

Success did not end there. The following year, the album “All I Want” ranked # 1 in the country charts, selling more than two million copies.

In 1997, Tim’s next album, “Everywhere” sold four million copies, and won an award from the Country Music Association in 1997. This was followed with the 1999 success of “A Place in the Sun”. By this time, the singer had already surpassed Garth Brooks as the most popular country male singer, toured with the Dixie Chicks, and was the lead performer in the George Strait Country Music Festival. Two to four more successful albums followed.

Tim McGraw has acted in several television shows, but is now seriously thinking of running for the governor’s office in Tennessee, if not the Senate. He is a staunch Democrat and is said to be a faithful supporter of Bill Clinton and Al Gore and other Democrats.