Adkins also worked as a pharmacy technician before pursuing a career in music. He also played music in a band called Bayou. After leaving college, he worked on an oil rig. 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. Later, Adkins attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. 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.Īt Sarepta High School, since defunct, Adkins joined a gospel music group called the New Commitments. His maternal uncle was the Christian musician James W.
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 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 and the former Mavis Giles, later Mavis Tilley. His paternal grandparents were Rayford D. Sarepta, Louisiana, honors its home-town celebrity, Trace AdkinsĪdkins was born in Sarepta, Louisiana. He has appeared in numerous films, including The Lincoln Lawyer, Moms' Night Out, and I Can Only Imagine. 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.Īlso, Adkins has written an autobiography entitled A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Free-Thinking Roughneck, which was released in late 2007. Adkins is widely known for his distinctive bass-baritone singing voice. 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. "I Left Something Turned on at Home" went to No. 1 on Canada's country chart. 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. Since then, Adkins has released ten more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations. Adkins made his debut in 1996 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud, released on Capitol Records Nashville. Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins is an American country singer and actor.
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COUNTRY SINGER TRACE ADKINS SERIES
The series is produced and wholly owned by Fox Entertainment.American country singer and actor Trace AdkinsĬapitol Nashville Show Dog-Universal Wheelhouse Verge Records Adam Anders serves as executive music producer, with the series set to feature original music and covers.
Jason Ensler is directing and executive producing the first episode. Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady of The Jackal Group and Sandbox Entertainment’s Jason Owen also executive produce. Michael Rauch is the executive producer and showrunner. The series hails from writer Melissa London Hilfers, who will also executive produce. 30 immediately after the NFC Championship game, with the show’s second episode airing on Feb. “Monarch” will debut midseason for Fox on Jan. He is repped by repped by Greg Baker & Associates, Action Entertainment, and Fox Rothschild LLP.
COUNTRY SINGER TRACE ADKINS TV
He is no stranger to acting either, having appeared in numerous film and TV projects during his career. He is known for hits like “This Ain’t (No Thinkin’ Thing),” “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” and “Hillbilly Bone,” the last of which with Blake Shelton. He has also charted 20 singles and earned multiple Grammy Award nominations.
Adkins is a multi-platinum selling artist with more than 11 million albums sold to date.
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