Faith Hill Biography

American musician Faith Hill was born in Mississippi in 1967. Hill grew up in the Ridgeland area of the state, in a devout Christian family, and her earliest performances were singing in the local church choir. At the age of nineteen she moved to Nashville to pursue a career as a musician; a chance meeting with a Warner Bros. Records executive a few years later led to her first recording contract.

Hill exploded onto the music scene with Take Me As I Am in 1993. The highly successful debut album hit the charts on the strength of the single “Wild One.” It Matters to Me followed in 1995, another success, and a string of successful albums and hits followed: Faith (1998), Breathe (1999), Cry (2002), Fireflies (2005), and Joy to the World (2008.) Hit singles include "This Kiss," "Breathe," "The Way You Love Me," "There You'll Be" (for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack), "Mississippi Girl", “Piece of my Heart,” “Like We Never Loved at All,” “The Lucky One,” “Stealing Kisses,” and “If you Ask.”

After a hiatus following her marriage to Tim McGraw and the birth of her youngest daughter, Faith Hill returned to the stage with the Soul2Soul II Tour in 2006, a tour which broke records to become the highest grossing country music tour ever. The following year she began work on The Hits, her first “greatest hits” package, featuring the songs “Red Umbrella” and “Lost,” both new tracks. In 2008, she released Joy to the World, a Christmas album, and in 2009, she performed “ American the Beautiful” for the Super Bowl pre-game show. Her latest album, Deep Tracks, arrived in 2016.

In addition to her work in music, Faith Hill has appeared in television and film, including The Stepford Wives in 2004, an episode of Touched by an Angel in 1995, and music for the Country Strong soundtrack, with the single “Give In To Me.”  She also appeared in the crime drama Dixieland in 2015.  

To date, Faith Hill has eight singles which charted at number one, three albums which charted at number three on the Country charts, and she has sold more than forty million records worldwide. Hill has been recognized by the American Music Awards, People’s Choice Awards, the Academy of Country Music, the Country Music Association, and the Grammies. Ladies Home Journal has recognized Faith Hill as one of the Thirty Most Powerful Women in America, and Billboard ranks her among the best-selling artists of the millennium’s first decade.

Faith Hill and her husband, Tim McGraw, are putting the finishing touches on their first joint album, scheduled for release in late 2017.