George Strait Tickets 2022

George Strait has been active in the country music scene since the 1960s, when he signed with MCA Records. He has released a total of more than 60 albums and has charted more than 50 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, with 16 No. 1 hits (as of 2013) to his credit. A seven-time member of the Grand Ole Opry, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006 and into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009.

In 2010, Strait was named by Rolling Stone as one of country music’s “100 Greatest Singers”, and that same year he was inducted into the inaugural class of the Country Music Hall of Fame’s entertainer wing.

George Harvey Strait (born May 18, 1952) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer.

George Harvey Strait was born into a large family on May 18, 1952 in Poteet, Texas. His parents were George Harvey Strait Sr., and the former Norma Jean Martineau. He was raised in Poteet and later San Marcos, Texas. He is of German ancestry. His father taught George how to play guitar when he was six years old. George graduated from San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District (Texas) in 1970.

Strait is known as the “King of Country” and is considered one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time.

Strait is known as the “King of Country” and is considered one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He has been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, won more CMA and ACM awards than any other artist, and has sold more than 68 million albums in the United States.

He is known for his neotraditionalist country style, cowboy look, and being one of the first and main country artists to bring country music back to its roots and away from the pop country era in the 1980s.

Strait is widely considered to be one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He has been honored by the Country Music Association with 18 CMA Awards, including three special awards. He has also won two Grammy Awards, which are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States. Strait holds the record for total number of weeks at number one on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with 77.

Strait was born in Poteet, Texas, a small town south of San Antonio, but grew up on an 800-acre farm between Poteet and Beeville. His father worked as a roofer during most of George Sr.’s childhood. As a young man in Beeville, he began working part-time as a country music disc jockey under the name “Geero” at KRIC AM while he played music full-time at local clubs. This led to him getting fired from his job as an insurance salesman. He then moved to California to pursue his music career full-time where he performed regularly at several clubs including The Palomino Club & The Golden Nugget Casino (which was later sold & became The Wagon Wheel Hotel & Casino).

Strait’s success began when his first single “Unwound” was a hit in 1981.

The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and helped Strait Country, his debut album, reach number three on that same list. That same year Strait scored his first number one song with “Fool Hearted Memory.”

During the 1980s, seven of his albums reached number one on the country charts.

George Strait released a total of 27 studio albums, two live albums, seven compilation albums and one box set. With these releases, Strait has sold more than 68 million albums in the United States alone. He is the 11th best-selling album artist in the United States overall, with 62 million certified units according to RIAA.

Strait has also released 52 singles that reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart between 1981 – 2009; a record for any artist in any genre. In fact, he holds the record for most #1 songs by any country performer (including other genres).

In the 2000s, Strait was named Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music, was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy award for the album Troubadour.

In the 2000s, Strait was named Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music, was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy award for the album Troubadour. Since its inception in 1973, he has been nominated for more CMA and ACM awards and has more wins in both categories than any other artist. In 2010 he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Strait married Norma Voss Eichelberger (1948–2005), known as Norma Jean, on March 11, 1966; together they had two children: their son George Harvey Strait III (born October 19, 1968) and daughter Jenifer Wayne “Bubba” Lynn Strait (born July 7). The couple divorced on November 22, 1995 after nearly 30 years of marriage due to infidelity issues within their marriage that had strained it throughout their relationship. After his divorce he began dating Becky Vollmer whom he would go on to marry again in 1996 after having known each other since high school.

Strait was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1989, 1990, 2013 and 2014 and ACM Entertainer of the Year in 1990 and 2014.

George Strait has been honored by the country music community with numerous awards. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985 and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006. The latter award cited him as “the measure by which all country music stars are measured”.

Strait has won 14 Academy of Country Music Awards, 16 Country Music Association Awards (CMAs), 11 American Music Awards and one Grammy Award. He is also an NARAS Trustee. Strait has sold more than 70 million albums during his career, including 48 million certified units in the U.S., making him one of the best-selling artists in any genre, according to RIAA figures

He has been nominated for more CMA and ACM awards and has more wins in both categories than any other artist.

George Strait has been nominated for more CMA and ACM awards than any other artist and has won more CMA and ACM awards than any other country artist. He’s been nominated 147 times, which is a lot.

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