Tim McGraw’s achievements since his Nashville debut includes nine albums with 23 #1 singles, sales topping 2 million, 2001 CMA Entertainer of the Year, a Grammy and on October 8, 2004 he became a major motion picture star in “Friday Night Lights” with Billy Bob Thornton. Tim McGraw concert ticket sales have soared over the past 5 years, making his tours consistently rank near the top. In 2005, he received Grammy nominations for Country Album of the Year for Live Like You Were Dying and a song nomination for his duet with rap artist Nelly titled “Over and Over,” which held the number one spot on the Billboard Urban charts for 11 weeks.

Tim McGraw was born on May 1, 1967 in Delhi, Louisiana and raised in the nearby farming town in Start, Louisiana. He started out going to college at Northeast Louisiana University but his love for music eventually pulled him away. After becoming a Nashville powerhouse with such hits as “Indian Outlaw” and “Don’t Take the Girl,” McGraw founded his own management and production company and began recording the albums that has made him the star he is today. In 1996, Tim McGraw went on his Spontaneous Combustion Tour with Faith Hill and before the year’s end Faith and Tim were married. They have 3 girls and concert tours are now arranged around 3 separate school schedules.

Few country artists have had the ability to maintain the levels of success that Tim McGraw upholds. Having a strong band beside him in the Dancehall Doctors, a stable and loving family life and success in several different realms of the music and entertainment industry, it is no wonder that when Tim McGraw schedules a tour it becomes an instant success. With his latest album, Live Like You Were Dying, Tim McGraw is definitely planning to stay in Nashville for quite some time.