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


Faith Hill's fame grew rapidly as she signed an endorsement deal with CoverGirl makeup and released Breathe, an even more successful pop hit that became one of the biggest albums of 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 during the song. "The Way You Love Me" hit the top ten as well (#7), and becoming one of the longest running singles in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 (57 weeks). The album won Faith Hill three Grammy Awards including Best Country Album.


In 2002, Hill released 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 and has sold nearly 3 million copies worldwide.


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.

Read more »

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.

Faith Hill was just too darn pretty to stay pure country. Faith Hill's soaring vocals and glamour-girl looks sent her over to the pop charts, which then sent her dabbling in Hollywood movies such as "The Stepford Wives." Faith Hill appeared on fashion magazine covers, best-dressed lists and the rounds of the entertainment shows, often in the arms of her hunky husband, Tim McGraw. Faith Hill found time to headline huge concert tours including a VH1 divas special. But there were some grumblings from her loyal country fans who wondered if Hill had forgotten her good-old-girl roots. In response, her newest album is Mississippi Girl, a fiddle-tinged homage to her earlier days without all the pop flavors and slick top 40 sounds. Country's hottest couple, who met and married after she opened for him on his "Spontaneous Combustion" tour in 1996, live in Nashville and have three daughters.