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Born 13 January, 1962 (63 years old).
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Career of the Trace Adkins started in 1987 .
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American country singer and actor
| Trace Adkins | |
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| Adkins in 2011 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Tracy Darrell Adkins |
| Born | January 13, 1962 Sarepta, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Origin | Springhill, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupation | Singer actor |
| Instruments | Vocals guitar |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Labels | Capitol Nashville Show Dog-Universal Wheelhouse Verge Records |
| Associated acts | Randy Houser Jamey Johnson 38 Special Ronnie Milsap Toby Keith Blake Shelton KK Bodiford |
| Website | traceadkins.com |
Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins is an American country singer and actor. Adkins made his debut in 1996 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud, released on Capitol Records Nashville. Since then, Adkins has released ten more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations. In addition, he has charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard country music charts, including the Number One hits " No Thinkin' Thing", "Ladies Love Country Boys", and "You're Gonna Miss This", which peaked in 1997, 2007, and 2008, respectively.
"I Left Something Turned on at Home" went to No. 1 on Canada's country chart. All but one of his studio albums have received gold or platinum certification in the United States; his highest-selling to date is 2005's Songs About Me, which has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum for shipping two million copies. Adkins is widely known for his distinctive bass-baritone singing voice.
He has also made several appearances on television, including as a panelist on the game shows Hollywood Squares and Pyramid, as a 2008 finalist and as the 2013 winner on The All Star Celebrity Apprentice, as the voice for recurring character Elvin on King of the Hill, and in television commercial voice-overs for KFC and Firestone.
Also, Adkins has written an autobiography entitled A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Free-Thinking Roughneck, which was released in late 2007. He has appeared in numerous films, including The Lincoln Lawyer, Moms' Night Out, and I Can Only Imagine.
Early life and education
Sarepta, Louisiana, honors its home-town celebrity, Trace Adkins
Adkins was born in Sarepta, Louisiana. His paternal grandparents were Rayford D. Adkins and the former Mavis Giles, later Mavis Tilley . His parents are the former Peggy Carraway, who was the high school sweetheart of his father, Aaron Doyle Adkins , who worked for forty-seven years at the International Paper Container Division in Springhill. Adkins has two brothers, Clay Adkins, and Scott Devin Adkins , who died at age twenty-one in a pickup truck accident near Plain Dealing in Bossier Parish. His maternal uncle was the Christian musician James W. Carraway . His musical interest came at an early age when he was ten and his father bought him a guitar and hired someone to give him lessons.
At Sarepta High School, since defunct, Adkins joined a gospel music group called the New Commitments. He was also a member of the FFA. Later, Adkins attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. A walk-on offensive lineman on the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Adkins left the team after his freshman season due to a knee injury, without ever playing in a game.:26 Adkins never graduated. After leaving college, he worked on an oil rig. He also played music in a band called Bayou. Adkins also worked as a pharmacy technician before pursuing a career in music. He lost the pinky finger on his left hand in an accident using a knife to open a bucket, and asked doctors to reattach the finger at an angle so that he could continue to play guitar. Adkins moved to play in honky-tonk bars for the next few years in the Ark-La-Tex area and eventually moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1992. In late-1994, Adkins met Rhonda Forlaw, who was an executive at Arista Records Nashville. Forlaw had numerous music industry friends come out to hear Adkins over the next few years. Scott Hendricks of Capitol Nashville signed him "on the spot" one night while Adkins was playing at Tillie and Lucy's bar in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.
Personal life
Adkins has two daughters, Tarah and Sarah, with his first wife, Barbara Lewis, and three daughters with his third wife, the former Rhonda Forlaw: Mackenzie, Brianna, and Trinity. Adkins is a supporter of the United States Republican Party and performed at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. He also performed the National Anthem at Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Haslam's second inauguration in 2015.
At age 17, Adkins was in an automobile accident in which his 1955 Chevrolet pickup truck hit a school bus head-on. He broke some ribs, punctured both lungs and his nose was partially torn off. Adkins was forced to give up college football after a severe knee injury at Louisiana Tech. He has also experienced a number of serious injuries as an adult, including being shot by his second ex-wife Julie Curtis in 1994. The bullet went through his heart and both lungs. He survived and chose not to press charges. They got divorced after 3 years. In 1989, Adkins, along with nine coworkers, were stranded on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico during Hurricane Chantal.
In early 2014, Adkins checked into rehabilitation for alcoholism after getting into an altercation on a cruise ship. In March 2014, Trace Adkins and his wife Rhonda filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Rhonda dismissed her divorce petition in June 2015. Despite rumors of reconciliation, Adkins re-filed for divorce less than a month later.
On October 12, 2019, Adkins married Canadian actress Victoria Pratt in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Adkins is also a member of the "Sons of Confederate Veterans".