George Jones and Merle Haggard both considered her their favorite female artist. The rest of us are only pretending. Yet Smith downplays the lavish praise. Country aficionados would say she hit the mark right from the start with her debut single, "Once a Day," released in Now considered her signature song, it stayed atop the chart for eight weeks a record that wasn't broken by another female country artist until with Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together".
Always far more interested in singing than stardom, Smith earned 19 more top 10 hits through the mids and fashioned a career that widely influenced the next generations of female artists. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame in Her latest project is her 37th studio album and her third produced by her husband, Marty Stuart who's in the Hall of Fame class. It's also her first album since As she's done in other phases of her year career, Smith says, she chose to put her home life first: She's the proud mother of five and grandmother of eight, and her first great-grandchild was born last October.
She and Stuart also had to carve out their studio time amid his packed work schedule and many side projects. Still, Stuart also was the one who gave her the final nudge when he presented her with a new song by Dallas Frazier, the master songwriter who penned "Elvira," "There Goes My Everything" and "What's Your Mama's Name," among other country standards. She looked great then and she looks great now. When Smith was a teenager, she nearly cut her leg off after she was injured in a lawnmower accident.
She learned how to play different chords of a guitar while recovering in the hospital. After she fully recovered, she started participating in various local talent contests which contributed to her passion for music. Celebrities Born in United States. Shane Vereen Football Player. Devin Asiasi Football Tight End. Dabbwithasiaa TikTok Star. Kennedy Frazer Instagram Star. Reese Regan YouTube Star. Famous Birthdays August Karl Pearson Cricketer.
Haynes frequently toured on her roadshow with Connie in the early s. The pair had three children: Jeanne, Julie, and Jodi Haynes.
Smith said she would never meet again after divorcing Haynes in the mids. Connie Smith is an artist of American country music. The song became the largest song by Smith. She reaches proceeded through the s and mids with nineteen increasingly top-ten hits. Her parents were from West Virginia, and the family moved there when Smith was five months old.
They later shifted to Dungannon, Ohio. When she was a kid, her dad was abusive, which caused her to experience a mental breakdown when she was a teenager. Her mother divorced her father when she was seven and married Tom Clark.
Clark brought the new marriage to 8 kids; Meador brought the new marriage to five kids, including Smith. Finally, they had two more kids together, reaching up to fifteen kids in total.
As a child, music surrounded Smith. Her stepfather was playing mandolin, her son was playing fiddle and her other brother was playing guitar.
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