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Trace Adkins Biography
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| Name : | Trace Adkins |
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Profession :
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Singer
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Birth Details :
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born January 13, 1962
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Spouse :
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Rhonda Forlaw (11 May 1997 - present) 3 children
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Trade mark :
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The pinkie finger on his left hand is permanently crooked to fit around the neck of a guitar. Years ago Trace cut off the finger on a job, and he aske
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Trace Adkins Trivia
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- Country music singer.
- Academy of Country Music voted him its top new male vocalist and Country Weekly magazine proclaimed him favorite male newcomer in 1997
- Has two daughters from a previous marriage, Tarah (b. 1983) & Sarah (b. 1985) as well as three daughters from his current marriage, Mackenzie (b. 1998), Brianna (b. 2001) and Trinity (b. 2004)
- His first single, "There's a Girl in Texas" made it into the Top 20 in 1996
- His first album, Dreamin' Out Loud, was certified gold (for sales of 500,000 copies) in March 1997 and platinum (for sales of a million) six months later.
- He got his big break while singing at Tillie's & Lucy's Pub in Nashville, when he was spotted by the president of Capitol Records' country division and quickly signed to a recording contract.
- His second wife shot him during a domestic dispute. He never filed charges.
- Life member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in the Louisiana Division.
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Trace Adkins Detailed Biography
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Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins (born January 13, 1962) is an American country music singer from Sarepta, Louisiana. Adkins learned to play the guitar at an early age and eventually came to work at an oil rig. He lost a finger in an industrial accident.
Adkins began playing music as part of The New Commitments, then moved on to honky tonk bars in the early 1990s. After gaining some fame, he moved to Nashville and signed to Capitol Records. His debut was 1996's Dreamin' Out Loud, which included a number of hits like "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing" and "Every Light in the House". The follow-up (Big Time), however, saw meager sales in comparison to Dreamin' Out Loud. 1999's More was similarly disappointed, but his fourth album, 2001's Chrome yielded a top-ten hit in "I'm Tryin'", and, in 2003, "Chrome" did the same. Adkins also pled guilty to a drunk driving charge during this period.
His most recent video, for Honky Tonk Badonkadonk, demonstrates the recent cross-pollination between the crunk hip hop and pop country genres. The term Badonkadonk itself is a fairly new entrant to Country Music Television, showing up much more often on Black Entertainment Television. In the music video, Adkins opts out of the more traditional background of farm equipment for a club scene with scantly clad dancing girls, but rather than drinking hpnotiq and hennessy, he and his friends consume low-end domestic beer. The juxtaposition of cowboy hats and "iced-out" jewelry exemplifies the radical trajectory that Adkins' work has taken over the past decade. The video has a different sound than the album version or radio edit, concerning Adkins' first remix, re-work or edit.
Year
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Chart Positions
Album
US Hot 100
US Country
2005
"Arlington"
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#16
Songs About Me
2005
"Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"
#38
#2
Songs About Me
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