Browse He soaked up the sounds of honky-tonkers and crooners alike. Although George Strait didn’t actually write the song, it struck a chord with the country star. 2014 2019 Mike Cox, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety in Austin, said, "The responding trooper determined the cause of accident to be excessive speed and that the car did not negotiate the turn properly. He's earned hat-tips from trad-country stars and crossover kings. George Strait’s father died Tuesday (June 4) at age 91 following a lengthy illness.John Byron Strait had been hospitalized for almost a month. Strait is third only to Strait has recorded the most number-one songs and top-five songs in the history of music of any kind, and is the only artist in the history of music of any kind to have a top-10 hit every year for 30 years. 2019 1996
2008 Decades upon decades of neo-trad country classics.
2004 2019 The beloved country artist grew up in a religious household headed by his father, John Byron Strait, who was also a Texas rancher and school math teacher. 2007 "At some point during the early ’80s, country singer George Strait was given a nudge by his then-producer, Jimmy Bowen, to try and liven up his stage act. 2019 He was offered a job designing cattle pens and decided to take it. 2005 2008
2019 Not long afterward, MCA signed Strait to a recording contract in February 1981. Give It Away 2005 2005 The initial deal was for one song. BORN
Strait is also known for his touring career when he designed a 360-degree configuration and introduced festival style tours. The couple initially married in Mexico on December 4, 1971. 2004 "At some point during the early ’80s, country singer George Strait was given a nudge by his then-producer, Jimmy Bowen, to try and liven up his stage act. 2005 Texas' very own King of Country. 2007 2008 Strait also holds those same records for wins and nominations for the As of June 8, 2010, Strait was named the top country-music artist of the past 25 years according to On June 1, 2013, Strait appeared in the Alamodome, in sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFBego2001 (Cite error: The named reference "auto" was defined multiple times with different content (see the 2003 He gave the band notice that he was leaving, but after a discussion with his wife, she convinced him to give music one more year. The lyrics, “When I became a father in the spring of ’81, there was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father’s son” are proven to be true since his son, Bubba, was born in 1981. She was riding in a Ford Mustang driven by Gregory Wilson Allen, 18, of Staples, Texas. The family set up the Jenifer Lynn Strait Foundation, which donates money to children's charities in the San Antonio area.Since 2010, Strait has served as spokesman for the In February 2012, Strait became a grandfather when George Strait Jr. and his wife Tamara had their first child, a son, George Harvey Strait III.Strait owns a Gulfstream G450 business jet and carries a personal registration N518GS.Strait along with long time friend and business partner In more than 30 years of recording, all of which have been spent with MCA Records, George Strait has garnered 61 number-one songs on all country charts (including Strait holds the record for most number-one albums and singles, gold albums, platinum albums, and multiplatinum albums in the history of country music, and is 11th in the most number-one albums in all other genres.