He also performed the National Anthem at Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Haslam's second inauguration in 2015.Īt age 17, Adkins was in an automobile accident in which his 1955 Chevrolet pickup truck hit a school bus head-on. Adkins is a supporter of the United States Republican Party and performed at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Juliet, Tennessee.Īdkins has two daughters, Tarah and Sarah, with his first wife, Barbara Lewis, and three daughters with his third wife, the former Rhonda Forlaw: Mackenzie, Brianna, and Trinity. Scott Hendricks of Capitol Nashville signed him 'on the spot' one night while Adkins was playing at Tillie and Lucy's bar in Mt. Forlaw had numerous music industry friends come out to hear Adkins over the next few years. In late-1994, Adkins met Rhonda Forlaw, who was an executive at Arista Records Nashville. Adkins moved to play in honky-tonk bars for the next few years in the Ark-La-Tex area and eventually moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1992. He lost the pinky finger on his left hand in an accident using a knife to open a bucket, and asked doctors to reattach the finger at an angle so that he could continue to play guitar. Adkins also worked as a pharmacy technician before pursuing a career in music. He also played music in a band called Bayou. After leaving college, he worked on an oil rig. A walk-on offensive lineman on the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Adkins left the team after his freshman season due to a knee injury, without ever playing in a game.:26 Adkins never graduated. Later, Adkins attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. His musical interest came at an early age when he was ten and his father bought him a guitar and hired someone to give him lessons.Īt Sarepta High School, since defunct, Adkins joined a gospel music group called the New Commitments. His maternal uncle was the Christian musician James W. Adkins has two brothers, Clay Adkins, and Scott Devin Adkins, who died at age twenty-one in a pickup truck accident near Plain Dealing in Bossier Parish. His parents are the former Peggy Carraway, who was the high school sweetheart of his father, Aaron Doyle Adkins, who worked for forty-seven years at the International Paper Container Division in Springhill.

Adkins and the former Mavis Giles, later Mavis Tilley. His paternal grandparents were Rayford D. Sarepta, Louisiana, honors its home-town celebrity, Trace AdkinsĪdkins was born in Sarepta, Louisiana. He has appeared in numerous films, including The Lincoln Lawyer, Moms' Night Out, and I Can Only Imagine. He has also made several appearances on television, including as a panelist on the game shows Hollywood Squares and Pyramid, as a 2008 finalist and as the 2013 winner on The All Star Celebrity Apprentice, as the voice for recurring character Elvin on King of the Hill, and in television commercial voice-overs for KFC and Firestone.Īlso, Adkins has written an autobiography entitled A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Free-Thinking Roughneck, which was released in late 2007. Adkins is widely known for his distinctive bass-baritone singing voice. All but one of his studio albums have received gold or platinum certification in the United States his highest-selling to date is 2005's Songs About Me, which has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum for shipping two million copies. 'I Left Something Turned on at Home' went to No. 1 on Canada's country chart. In addition, he has charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard country music charts, including the Number One hits ' No Thinkin' Thing', 'Ladies Love Country Boys', and 'You're Gonna Miss This', which peaked in 1997, 2007, and 2008, respectively. Since then, Adkins has released ten more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations. Adkins made his debut in 1996 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud, released on Capitol Records Nashville. Tracy Darrell 'Trace' Adkins is an American country singer and actor. Randy Houser Jamey Johnson 38 Special Ronnie Milsap Toby Keith Blake Shelton KK Bodiford American country singer and actor Trace AdkinsĬapitol Nashville Show Dog-Universal Wheelhouse Verge Records

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