Audrey Faith Perry, later known as Faith Hill was born September 21, 1967 in Jackson, Mississippi, Faith Hill is a successful American country singer, known for her commercial success as well as her much-publicized marriage to country singer Tim McGraw.


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


Faith Hill is adopted and met her biological mother in the early 1990s. She was married to a music executive named Dan Hill (not to be confused with 1970s singer/songwriter Dan Hill, who is best known for the pop hit, "Sometimes When We Touch") from 1988 to 1994. Working as a secretary in a music publishing company,Faith Hill's singing was noticed as she sang to herself one day. She soon signed to Warner Brothers Records.


Faith Hill's debut album was Take Me As I Am (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 and was another success, with the title track becoming her fourth #1 country single. Faith 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. Faith Hill began touring with Tim McGraw and married him on October 6, 1996. The couple has three children together: Gracie Katherine, Maggie Elizabeth and Audrey Caroline.