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AboutStrait was born and raised in Texas, the son of a junior high
school teacher who also owned and operated a ranch that
had been in the Strait family for nearly hundred years. When
George was a child, his mother left the family, taking her
daughter but leaving behind her sons with the father. During
his childhood, he would spend his weekdays in town and his
weekends on the ranch. Strait began playing music as a
teenager, joining a rock & roll garage band.

After his high-school graduation in the late '60s, Strait
enrolled in college but soon dropped out and eloped with his
high-school sweetheart, Norma. In 1971, Strait enlisted in
the Army; two years later, he was stationed Hawaii. While in
Hawaii, he began playing country music, initially with an
Army-sponsored country band called Rambling Country.
They played several dates off the base under the name
Santee. Strait left the Army in 1975, returning to Texas with
the intent of completing his education. He enrolled in
Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos, where he
studied agriculture. While he was studying, he formed his
own country band, Ace in the Hole Band.

Ace in the Hole Band made a few records for the independent
Dallas-based label D in the late '70s, but they never went
anywhere. Toward the end of the decade, Strait attempted to
carve out a niche in Nashville, but he failed since he lacked
any strong connections. In 1979, he became friends with Erv
Woolsey, a Texas club owner who had formerly worked for
MCA Records. Erv Woolsey had several MCA executives
come down to Texas to hear Strait. His performance
convinced the company to sign him in 1980.

"Unwound," Strait's first single, was released in the spring of
1981 and climbed into the Top Ten. The follow-up, "Down
and Out," stalled at 16, but "If You're Thinking You Want a
Stranger (There's One Coming Home)" reached number
three in early 1982. The song sparked a remarkable string of
Top Ten hits that ran well into the '90s. During that time he
had an astonishing 31 number one singles, beginning with
1982's "Fool Hearted Memory."

Throughout the '80s, he dominated the country singles charts,
and his albums consistently went platinum or gold. Strait
rarely abandoned hardcore honky tonk and Western swing --
toward the beginning of the '90s, his sound became a little
slicker, but it was only a relative change. Strait was also one
of the few '80s superstars to survive the generational shift of
the early '90s that began with the phenomenal success of
Garth Brooks. In 1992, he made his first movie, Pure
Country, which featured him in the lead role. Strait released
a four-disc box set career retrospective, Strait Out of the
Box, in 1995. By the spring of 1996, it had become one of
the five biggest-selling box sets in popular music history.
Blue Clear Sky, his 1996 album, debuted on the country
charts at number one and the pop charts at number seven.
In 1997, he released Carrying Your Love with Me, following it
with One Step at a Time in 1998. Always Never the Same
appeared a year later, as did the seasonal effort Merry
Christmas Wherever You Are. The simply titled George
Strait, featuring the hit single "Go On," hit the shelves in late
2000. Did Strait slow down? Nay. 2001 saw the release of,
which qualified as an experimental album of sorts for the
veteran performer. While it didn't stray very far from his new
traditionalist country sound, did include a foray into vocal
processing that was about as country as a pair of Stiletto
-healed cowboy boots. But the experimentation was welcome,
for it revealed that Strait was still hungry, even after millions
upon millions of records sold. Strait issued two projects in
2003. chronicled his headlining set at the last Houston
Livestock and Rodeo ever held in the big Texas dome, while
was a fiery set of hard country, lauded by critics for it's
mixture of the old Strait with his modern, superstar self.

Submitted by: Zangoose

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