Randy Travis Net Worth, Age, Wife, children, Height, Family, Parents, Band

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Introduction

American country music and Christian music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor Randy Travis. Active from 1978 until a stroke rendered him paralyzed in 2013, he had 20 studio albums and more than 50 singles that hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including 16 that reached No. 1. In the mid-1980s, Travis’s album Storms of Life, which sold more than four million copies, propelled him to prominence as a crucial player in the history of country music. This album established him as a leading figure in the neotraditional country movement.

After the success of his debut album, Travis released a series of platinum and multi-platinum albums. Since the 1980s, his distinctive baritone vocals performed in a classic way have made him a country music superstar. By the mid-1990s, Travis’s chart success had declined. He left Warner Bros. Records in 1997 for DreamWorks Records and subsequently Word Records, where he began to record more Christian music. Despite the fact that the career change delivered only one additional number-one country song, “Three Wooden Crosses,”

He went on to win multiple Dove Awards, including five times for Country Album of the Year. Since his stroke, which severely hampered his abilities to sing and speak, he has released archival recordings and made few public appearances. He also pursued an acting career, appearing in numerous films and television series, including The Rainmaker (1997) with Matt Damon, Black Dog (1998) with Patrick Swayze, Texas Rangers (2001) with James Van Der Beek, National Treasure 2 (2007) and seven episodes of the Touched by an Angel television series. Two episodes of the crime-solving television series Matlock featured his appearance. Travis has sold more than 25 million records and has been honored with seven Grammy Awards, six CMA Awards, eleven ACM Awards, ten AMA Awards, eight GMA Dove Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016.

Early existence

$12 million is the estimated value of Randy Travis’s net worth
Occupation
63-year-old singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist
Height 1.75m
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Randy Bruce Traywick was born in Marshville, North Carolina, United States on May 4, 1959 (age 63). He is the second of six children born to textile factory worker Bobbie (née Tucker) (16 May 1937–21 May 1998) and horse breeder, turkey farmer, substitute school teacher, and construction business owner Harold Traywick (31 March 1933–8 October 2016). Travis and Ricky were encouraged by their father, a devotee of Hank Williams, George Jones, and Lefty Frizzell, to pursue their musical skills.

In 1967, at age eight, Travis began playing guitar and singing in his Church of Christ choir. Two years later, he and his brother began performing as the Traywick Brothers at local bars and talent contests. Although his father pushed Travis to pursue music, the two frequently argued, which contributed to Travis dropping out of high school; he later became a juvenile delinquent and was arrested for a variety of crimes, including auto theft and burglary. Travis has since expressed regret for his prior actions.

In 1975, Randy won a talent contest at the Charlotte, North Carolina, nightclub Country City USA. Elizabeth “Lib” Hatcher, the club’s proprietor, took an interest in the young singer, engaged him as a cook, and provided him with frequent singing gigs at the club. Randy worked and sang in Country City USA throughout the 1980s. Travis, still in his late teens, had one more run-in with the cops. The judge warned Travis at his hearing that if he ever saw the singer back in his court, he should be prepared to serve a lengthy time. Travis was released into the custody of Hatcher, who also assumed the role of manager. They began to focus exclusively on his career.

Randy Travis started recording with Paula Records in 1978. His debut single with the label, “Dreamin’,” failed to chart when it was released in April 1978. The second song, titled “She’s My Woman,” was released in September 1978 and peaked at number 91 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs list for four weeks. Paula Records has never released a full album. The fact that Travis moved in with Hatcher further strained her already weak marriage. She subsequently divorced her husband, and she and Travis relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1982. During this time, an unusual romance between the two began to develop. Later, Travis would say, “I believe we realized how much we needed each other.” In 1991, he and Hatcher went public with their romance and were married in a private ceremony.

Musical music

In the early 1980s, every major record label in Nashville rejected Randy Travis. Record execs attacked his early demo tapes for being “too country.” To support them, Hatcher became the manager of The Nashville Palace nightclub and hired Travis as a cook and singer, where he performed as Randy Ray. In 1982, Travis recorded the independent album Live at the Nashville Palace, which Hatcher utilized to win an album contract with the Nashville office of Warner Bros. Records. As a condition of the contract, label bosses requested they keep their relationship a secret and renamed him Randy Travis. In 1985, Warner Bros. Records released the country chart-topping single “On the Other Hand,” which peaked at No. 67.

The re-release of “The Other Hand” became Travis’ first No. 1 single on that list. These songs were included on his major-label debut Storms of Life, which yielded “Diggin’ Up Bones,” another number-one country single, and “No Place Like Home,” which held the No. 2 spot on the Billboard country charts in early 1987. Paul Overstreet co-wrote “On the Other Hand”, “Diggin’ Up Bones”, and “No Place Like Home”. In 1992, Storms of Life was certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of three million copies. The album was produced by Kyle Lehning, who would go on to create the majority of Travis’s subsequent albums.

Travis became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in December 1986. Always & Forever was Randy Travis’s second album for Warner Bros. Four singles from the album, all of which reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts, were released in April 1987: “Forever and Ever, Amen” (also co-written by Overstreet), “I Won’t Need You Anymore (Always and Forever),” “Too Gone Too Long,” and “I Told You So” (written by Travis). “Forever and Ever, Amen” retained the number one spot for three weeks. Travis earned his first Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for Always & Forever in 1987.

His third album, Old 810, was released in July 1988. Its first three singles, “Honky Tonk Moon,” “Deeper Than the Holler,” and “Is It Still Over?” all reached No. 1, although “Promises” was less popular, peaking at No. 17 on the Billboard chart. Old 810 received Travis his second Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance in 1988, while the album was certified double-platinum by the RIAA in 1996. In late 1989, Travis released his debut Christmas album, An Old Time Christmas.

Randy Travis recorded a cover of “It’s Just a Matter of Time” in 1989, 30 years after Brook Benton’s original recording. Travis recorded the song for a Warner Bros.-released multi-artist tribute album titled Rock, Rhythm & Blues, and persuaded the label to put it on what would become his fourth Warner album, No Holdin’ Back. In December of 1989, Travis’s version of the song, which was produced by Richard Perry (who also performed bass vocals), debuted at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs album.

It was the second time that a version of the song has topped the country charts, as Sonny James’ version had previously topped the charts in 1970. Two additional singles were released from the album No Holdin’ Back: “Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart,” which became Travis’s longest-lasting No. 1 song at four weeks in 1990, and “He Walked on Water,” which reached at No. 3. The album also featured “Singing the Blues,” another cover song, and “Somewhere in My Broken Heart,” which was co-written and later recorded by Billy Dean.

Heroes & Friends, Randy Travis’s sixth studio album, consisted almost exclusively of duets. It yielded two singles: “A Few Ole Country Boys” (with George Jones) and the album’s sole solo effort, the title track, which both reached the top ten of the country music charts in 1991. Also featured on the album were B. B. King and Clint Eastwood. The album also featured the duet “We’re Strangers Again” with Tammy Wynette. This song was written by Merle Haggard and Leona Williams for their 1983 duets album Heart to Heart. The version by Travis and Wynette was eventually included on the latter’s Best Loved Hits album for Epic Records, who released it as a single in August 1991.

Other initiatives

In 1991, Randy Travis participated in the multi-artist initiative “Voices That Care,” which featured other prominent musicians for a one-off record to benefit the allied forces in the Gulf War. The same year, he also appeared on Sesame Street. Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers, and Kathy Mattea joined Garth Brooks for this collaboration. In addition, Travis recorded the patriotic song “Point of Light” in response to George H. W. Bush’s Thousand points of light campaign. This song also served as the lead single for his seventh album for Warner, High Lonesome. This album generated three further singles, all of which were co-written by Travis and country music singer Alan Jackson: “Forever Together,” “Better Class of Losers,” and “I’d Surrender All.”

In September 1992, Warner Bros. issued two volumes of a Greatest Hits collection: Greatest Hits, Volume 1 and Greatest Hits, Volume 2. In that year, “If I Didn’t Have You” from Volume 1 and “Look Heart, No Hands” from Volume 2 both topped the charts. Also included on Volume 1 was “An Old Pair of Shoes,” which peaked at No. 21 on the charts. Later in 1992, Travis recorded Wind in the Wire, an album of cowboy-inspired Western music designed to complement the television film of the same name in which he starred. This is his first album to not contain any Top 40 country singles. Travis took a break from recording and performing for most of 1993 due to his appearances in Wind in the Wire and other TV films. Later, he told Billboard magazine, “There appears to be an impression that I’ve quit altogether.”

Lehning commented that Travis appeared “reinvigorated” on his ninth album, This Is Me, while Travis himself stated that the album’s songs were noisier than those on his prior albums. This album produced four charting singles: “Before You Kill Us All,” “Whisper My Name” (which reached at No. 1 in 1994), “The Box,” and “Before You Kill Us All.” His final album for Warner was Full Circle, released in 1996, which produced the songs “Are We in Trouble Now” (written by Mark Knopfler), “Would I,” and “Price to Pay,” the latter of which failed to make the country top 40. Also in 1996, Travis performed “King of the Road” by Roger Miller for the soundtrack of Traveller. This performance, released by Asylum Records, remained on the country charts for 15 weeks despite only reaching No. 51.

Same Old Train earned Randy Travis his third Grammy in 1998 for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. Later in 1998, he signed with DreamWorks Records and released You and You Alone. Travis collaborated with Byron Gallimore (well known for his work with Tim McGraw) and James Stroud to produce this album. The disc featured Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, and Melody Montgomery, among others. Patrick Swayze performed background vocals to the song “I Did My Part.” “Out of My Bones,” “The Hole,” “Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man” (co-written by former Styx member Glen Burtnik), and “Stranger in My Mirror” were its singles. 1999 saw the release of his sole other DreamWorks album, A Man Ain’t Made of Stone. Also co-produced by Stroud and Gallimore, it yielded a Top 20 hit in the form of the album’s title tune, but its three other singles failed to crack the top 40.

Since 2000, Travis’s career has been dominated by Christian country music. Word Records released his first full album in the genre, Inspirational Journey, in 2000. The album “Baptism” was originally a duet between Kenny Chesney and Randy Travis on Chesney’s 1999 album Everywhere We Go. In late 2000, Travis’ solo song included on Inspirational Journey peaked at No. 75 on the country charts. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Travis recorded the chart-topping patriotic song “America Will Always Stand,” which was distributed by Relentless Records.

“Three Wooden Crosses” was his most successful Christian country music. This song, which was released in December 2002 as the lead single from his album Rise and Shine, reached No. 1 in early 2003, becoming his sixteenth and final No. 1 single. In 2003, Worship & Faith was released, consisting primarily of gospel standards. This album was certified gold by the RIAA three years after its release. Moreover, Rise and Shine and Worship & Faith won Travis his fourth and fifth Grammys in 2003 and 2004, respectively, for Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album. The following album was Passing Through, which contained his final solo chart entries, “Four Walls” and “Angels.” Glory Train: Songs of Faith, Worship, and Praise, released in 2005, consisted primarily of gospel covers, as did Songs of the Season, his second Christmas album, released in 2007. In 2006, Travis earned his sixth Grammy for Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album for Glory Train.

Travis’s 2008 album Around the Bend marked his return to classic country music, coinciding with his return to Warner Bros. Nashville. Stephen Thomas Erlewine observed of Travis’s career in the preceding years that his turn to Christian music “was fruitful, producing a series of good, heartfelt records, yet they also had the nice side effect of putting commercialism way back on the back burner, as the gospel albums were made without the charts in mind,” while Around the Bend “stands apart from trends, not defiantly but comfortably.” In 2009, Carrie Underwood’s rendition of “I Told You So” featuring Travis on duet vocals reached No. 2 on the country charts and earned Travis his seventh Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. In 2013 and 2014, Travis released two more cover albums, Influence Vol. 1: The Man I Am and Influence Vol. 2: The Man I Am.

In 2016, Travis was chosen as one of 30 musicians to appear in the music video for “Forever Country,” a mashup of “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” “On the Road Again,” and “I Will Always Love You” that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the CMA Awards. On May 14, 2019, Travis’s autobiograph