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Audrey Faith Perry, later known as Faith Hill
(born September 21, 1967 in Jackson, Mississippi),
is an United States|American country music|country
singer, known for her commercial success as well
as her much-publicized marriage to country singer
Tim McGraw.  

==Early life==
Hill was raised in Star, Mississippi and began
singing at a very early age.  After graduating
high school, Hill went to college briefly before
dropping out and moving to Nashville in an attempt
at starting a singing career. 

Faith is adoption|adopted and met her biological
mother in the early 1990s. She was married to a
music executive named Dan Hill from 1988 to 1994. 
Working as a secretary in a music publishing
company, Hill's singing was noticed as she sang to
herself one day.  She soon signed to Warner
Brothers Records.

==Country success==
Hill's debut album was Take Me As I Am (1991 in
music|1993); sales were strong, buoyed by the
chart success of "Wild One".   a version of Janis
Joplin's "Piece of My Heart", also went to the top
of the country charts.  She was delayed in the
recording of her second album by surgery on her
vocal cords.  It Matters to Me finally appeared in
1995 in music|1995 and was another success, with
the title track becoming her fourth #1 country
single. 

Hill began seeing country singer Tim McGraw.  When
he proposed marriage to her in one of his tour
trailers, he had to go perform right then, so she
took a permanent marker and wrote her answer on
the mirror. Hill began touring with McGraw and
married him on October 6, 1996. The couple has
three children together: Gracie Katherine, Maggie
Elizabeth and Audrey Caroline.

==Pop crossover==

Hill's 1998 album, Faith (Faith Hill album)|Faith,
moved her closer towards a mainstream,
pop-oriented sound, which lost her many of her
longtime fans.  "This Kiss" became a #1 country
hit, and went to #7 on the pop charts.  

Hill's fame grew rapidly as she signed an
endorsement deal with Cover Girl makeup and
released Breathe (Faith Hill album)|Breathe, an
even more successful pop hit that became one of
the biggest albums of 2000 in music|2000.  The
title track "Breathe" was the #1 pop airplay song
that year and has become Hill's signature song;
especially notable is the power and control she
shows in her lower register (music)|register
during the song.  "The Way You Love Me" hit the
top ten as well.  The album won Hill three Grammy
Awards including Grammy Award for Best Country
Album|Best Country Album.

By the holidays she had contributed "Where Are You
Christmas?" to the movie How the Grinch Stole
Christmas and the following summer she recorded
the Diane Warren penned "There You'll Be" for the
Pearl Harbor (movie)|Pearl Harbor soundtrack.  

In 2002, Hill released Cry (Faith Hill album)|Cry.
 Though the album debuted at #1 on Billboard
magazine's pop and country album charts, its
singles (including the title track, written and
originally performed by Angie Aparo) received much
less radio airplay than her previous smashes.  In
fact, country radio pretty much ignored the songs,
considering them "too pop".  The album did win one
Grammy Award.

In the summer of 2004, Faith Hill co-starred with
Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick in director
Frank Oz's remake of the 1975 thriller The
Stepford Wives (2004 movie)|The Stepford Wives.  

She references this sojourn in Hollywood as well
as the chilly reception of Cry in the 2005 country
release "Mississippi Girl," the first single from
her back-to-roots album Fireflies (Faith Hill
album)|Fireflies.  She performed this song along
with "Breathe" and "Piece of My Heart" at the Live
8 concert, Rome|Live 8 concert in Rome on July 2,
2005, where McGraw also performed.

==Discography==
===Albums===
*Fireflies (Faith Hill album)|Fireflies (2005) #1
US
*Cry (Faith Hill album)|Cry (2002) #1 US (2X
Platinum), #29 UK
*Breathe (Faith Hill album)|Breathe (1999) #1 US
(8X Platnium), #19 UK
*Faith (Faith Hill album)|Faith (1998) #7 US (6X
Platinum)
*It Matters to Me (1995) #29 US (4X Platinum)
*Take Me As I Am (1993) #59 US (4X Platinum)

=== Hit singles ===

* 1993 "Wild One" #1 US (Country)
* 1993 "Piece of My Heart" #1 US (Country)
* 1995 "It Matters to Me" #74 US, #1 US (Country)
* 1998 "Let Me Let Go" #33 US
* 1998 "This Kiss" #7 US, #1 US (Country) #13 UK
* 1999 "Breathe" #2 US, #33 UK, #36 UK (2001
re-release)
* 1999 "Love Ain't Like That" #68 US
* 1999 "The Secret of Life" #46 US
* 2000 "Let's Make Love" #54 US
* 2000 "The Way You Love Me" #7 US, #1 US
(Country) #15 UK (2001 release)
* 2001 "If My Heart Had Wings" #39 US
* 2001 "There You'll Be" #10 US, #1 US (AC), #3 UK
* 2001 "Where Are You Christmas?" #65 US
* 2002 "Cry" #33 US, #1 US (AC) #25 UK
* 2005 "Mississippi Girl" #29 US, #3 US country

==See also==
*Best selling music artists

==External links==
* http://www.faithhill.com Official website
*imdb name|id=0005011|name=Faith Hill