Apparently, there was a lot of disagreement between the two on starting a family. The infamous drama came about when Shelton was allegedly discovered cheating on Miranda with The Voice co-judge, Gwen Stefani. After the scandal went nationwide, the pair quickly got a divorce, and Shelton has been dating Stefani ever since.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time, George Strait has garnered a staggering 61 No. When it came to love, Strait knew what he wanted. He eloped with his high-school sweetheart, Norma, with the pair marrying in Mexico in December of Army, and actually started performing with a U.
The now year-old is still going strong, and along with his musical ventures, he adds a number of country-themed films to his belt, such as Pure Country and Grand Champion. Now, this pair has a pretty cute story — they met in a nightclub in Oklahoma in , when Toby was 20 and Tricia just Three years later, the pair tied the knot and have been happily married ever since!
They have three children together: Shelley, who was actually adopted the year the couple was wed, and two other children: Krystal and son, Stelen. Covel is actually a grandfather now too, with his adopted daughter Shelley having two kids of her own! To be performing at 78 years old is impressive enough, but not so hard to believe when it comes to legendary country singer, Kenny Rogers.
As for his love life, he's been married a staggering five times! However, his current wife, Wanda Miller, seems to be the one that will last. Married in , the pair have been together for over twenty years, and have had two children together. However, when the band formed in , Karen was actually married to her first husband.
A few years later, they divorced, and Karen and Jimi started dating. They walked down the aisle in May , having a very low-key, intimate wedding. The couple has a son together, Elijah. After three years of marriage, this pair surprised adoring fans by parting ways. But before we get to that, let us introduce Jake Owen first. A country music singer who quickly rose to fame after touring with greats such as Little Big Town, Sugarland, Keith Urban, and more, Jake's been hot property for a while now.
But even hotter still was his wife to be — Lacey Buchanan. The model caught Jake's eye during a music video shoot. In a very romantic move, Owen proposed onstage during one of his concerts in The very next month, the pair tied the knot in Vero Beach, Florida. Just months later, the pair welcomed their first child — Olive Pearl, on November But it seems that the couple had issues brewing under the surface of what seemed like an idyllic marriage, deciding to part ways in August Chris Carmack is up next on our list!
Best known for appearing in cult TV series, The O. Perhaps his role as Will Lexington on Nashville prompted him to give country music a go. He released an EP titled Pieces of You in , and while his career was taking off, he decided to propose to his girlfriend, fiddle player Erin Slaver. Around the same time, this gorgeous couple announced that Erin was pregnant, giving birth to a baby girl in August of ! Church is a talented country-music singer and very much a family man.
Blasingame is actually a music publisher — so that takes the guesswork out of how these two initially crossed paths. It was just meant to be, it seems! This lovely couple has two gorgeous sons together.
They settled down in Nashville, Tennessee. With a career spanning over 60 years, this woman is a country music legend. Born into a family who was all about country music, Loretta Lynn became one of the most groundbreaking female artists in the industry. Since then, her career has shot to stardom, garnering praise and acclaim all over the world. Married for over fifty years, the pair had six children together, with three of them born before her 20th birthday!
In , her spouse Oliver passed away, five days before his 70th birthday,. Being a devout Christian, Turner often refers to his great faith in his songs. As for his wife, well, he and Jennifer Ford met at Belmont University, where they were both studying at the time.
The same year he released his debut album, he also wed Ford! The couple has four sons together, and are enjoying wedded bliss.
In , she was proposed to by her then-boyfriend, and despite her shock, she accepted. The pair wed privately in the same year. Two years into the marriage, Krauss gave birth to a son. However, the pair divorced in and went their separate ways. The winner of 27 Grammy Awards, this gifted and accomplished musician has given us a lot of amazing music, and will continue to do so! It's only fitting that Kris Kristofferson makes our list. The now year-old renowned country singer is a proud inductee of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and is known for his part in the country supergroup, The Highwaymen, as well as for winning a Golden Globe Award for his performance in A Star is Born!
Before his career in music, Kristofferson was a military man — quite a change from being out in the field, right? Kris Kristofferson has eight children from his three marriages — Fran Beer, Rita Coolidge another successful singer, though this lasted only 7 years , and finally his third wife, Lisa Meyers.
He seems pretty chuffed with Lisa, and we wish them all the best! Another great love story is that of famous country music bad boy, Travis Tritt. He has won two Grammy Awards, had seven platinum-certified albums and one triple-platinum album. During his early years, Tritt had a rough start to life. He then married Jodi Barnett, a woman over a decade older than him, but this too, ended in divorce. Charlie met his Hazel pretty early on, and the pair were wed in September They have one son together, Charlie Daniels, Jr.
The American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is a testament to what country music should be. Despite her success, the now year-old has had a bit of a rough ride with relationships. But it was her short relationship with actor Ben Reed that led to her two children.
However, the pair split up. Fast forward a few years, and Tucker was having an on-again, off-again relationship with Nashville musician, Jerry Laseter. They were engaged twice and were just about to walk down the aisle when she discovered she was pregnant with his child.
The much-loved country music artist Glen Campbell had an epic career, spanning 50 years. The Arkansas-born singer is best known for his hits throughout the 60s and 70s, as well as for hosting the music and comedy variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
Having sold over 45 million records worldwide, Campbell will forever be remembered as a legend of the industry. His love life was somewhat more complex, having been married four times. However, his fourth wife, Kimberley Woollen, seemed to stand the test of time, tying the knot in , and remaining married up until his passing.
Kacey Musgraves made a name for herself with a stunning debut album in Golden Hour. Musgraves is married to fellow singer-songwriter, Ruston Kelly. She introduced herself and the two organized to do some songwriting together. The pair got married in October With a long career beginning in , Randy Travis recorded 20 studio albums, as well as charting over 50 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. The year-old has been married twice, first divorcing his wife Lib Hatcher, of 19 years, as well as ending their business relationship.
He remarried in , tying the knot with Mary Davis. It was rather scandalous for Travis, as he allegedly was caught cheating with Mary, who was his dentist at the time! The drop-dead gorgeous blonde bombshell is perhaps the most recognizable female country singer in the world. With her strong but sweet voice, the former American Idol winner has gone from strength to strength.
Clearly, Fisher had a bit of a crush and met the beautiful Carrie backstage at one of her concerts, in They were engaged just a year later! The pair tied the knot in in Georgia, and in , announced the arrival of their first child — Isaiah Michael. Now, this is one for the books!
This pair met back in high school and stuck it through thick and thin. Denise, however, was the rock who held fast and helped him get his start in country music.
Fast forward and the couple have three daughters. They separated, but amazingly got back together, and have stuck by each other ever since. First working as a landscaper for Roy Orbison's wife, and it was this connection that shot him to stardom. Barbara Orbison offered him his first publishing deal, and the rest is history! In , he moved to Nashville, where he was invited to play live. After his first performance, he soon became a regular and became close with Darren Theriault, the bassist for Jypsi.
Now, for the woman in his life. Alexander met Liz Bok on a ferry ride down under back in The meeting led to the pair dating, and in , Alexander proposed. This year-old country music starlet is up there with the Madonnas of the world. The singing competition saw her proceed to the quarter-finals, before being eliminated.
However, she then signed on with Republic Nashville. Set to release more in the future, RaeLynn has a lot ahead of her. When it comes to her love life, it was certainly smoother sailing, becoming engaged in October to her boyfriend Josh Davis, and marrying in February of the following year. Country singer-songwriter Justin Moore is no stranger to the guitar or the stage. On a personal note, Moore married his girlfriend, Kate Gales, in The pair met as teenagers, and from then on, there was something that neither one could let go of!
American bassist, vocalist, pianist, record producer and songwriter, Jay DeMarcus is pretty well accomplished! Best known for being a member of the country-pop group Rascal Flats, DeMarcus is also quite the advocate for Christian music.
As for his love life? Well, this country music man is married to former beauty queen and Miss Tennessee, Allison Alderson. Crowned twice, Alderson must also be twice as nice! Born Kenneth Mobley Brice, Jr. Not to mention the fact that eleven of his released singles charted, with some reaching number one on Billboard Hot Country Songs. As for his partner: well, in , Brice tied the knot with his long-time girlfriend, Sarah Reeveley. The frontman of the Georgia-based country band, The Zac Brown Band, Brown is a bit of a legend when it comes to his vocals and guitar.
The seven-piece band is known for their use of the fiddle, banjo, ukulele and even a mandolin on occasion. The band has been quite successful, releasing six albums and having sixteen singles make the country music charts! Brown is happily married to his wife Shelly, with the pair tying the knot just over ten years ago. Legend alert!
Willie Nelson has to be one of the best-recognized Americans, ever. A living icon, this country music star has successfully crossed over into acting, songwriting, writing, and activism over his long, star-studded career.
It seems that his love life has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride, so much so that it perhaps even rivals his career milestones. Having married four times, Nelson has fathered seven children.
We feel a bit bad for Shirley Collie — he fathered a child with Connie Koepke while still married to Collie. Founding member of the gorgeous country music trio Lady Antebellum, next up on our list of country music stars is Charles Kelley.
Born in Augusta, Georgia, the now year-old is, of course, best known for his part in the trio. Anyway, back to Charles — he wed music rep Cassie McConnell in a Nashville courthouse on June , before flying off to the Bahamas for a destination wedding. The couple has a son together — Ward Charles Kelley. Recently nominated for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame for , Paisley certainly has enjoyed success over the course of his twenty-year career. After seeing her performance in Father of the Bride, Paisley was absolutely smitten with actress Kimberly Williams.
Happily married, their family grew to include two sons, William Huckleberry, and Jasper Warren. Too cute! Did you know that this hunky American country music star has recorded 20 albums, and 14 of those have been certified Gold?
But more to the point, what actually happened between Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger? Married in , the actress of Bridget Jones and the country star seemed very much in love. Four months later, however, it seemed that the wedded bliss was in fact not meant to last, with the pair splitting up. Chesney has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Who knows, maybe marriage round two is on the cards for the pair! The queen of country music has had one very special man all her life, and that is Carl Dean.
For 53 years this couple has stuck through thick and thin. What's the secret to this unbreakable bond? Well, it seems to be the fact that they lead completely different lives.
The ten-time Grammy Award winner, winner of ten Country Music Association Awards and much, much more has clearly been busy making some of the most beloved country songs for decades. Carl on the other hand, a businessman, has been in his world and completely out of the spotlight. The two met a laundromat in and experienced what could only be described as love at first sight.
Two years later they were hitched and have been going strong ever since. Dolly credits her crazy touring schedule over the years claiming that that has been the key to their successful marriage.
I travel a lot, but we really enjoy each other when we're together and the little things we do. Miley may have crossed over into the pop genre, but as the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and god-daughter to Dolly Parton, she sure has her roots in the country.
The "bitter withy" is willow, and for its part in the story, the tree was cursed to "perish at the heart" — rot from within — as indeed it does. Sam Lee is one of Britain's finest singers and the most cogent force of his generation in British folk music; an heir to the great revival during the s and 60s led by Martin Carthy and the Watersons, and Fairport Convention in their wake. Lee brings contemporary folk music back to whence much of it came: Roma, Gypsies and Scottish and Irish Travellers, who have passed these songs from generation to generation, over centuries.
He scours Britain for those whom many avoid or despise — travellers in camps or housed — to learn their lore and songs. And a first collection makes up his debut album: Ground of Its Own, nominated for a Mercury award last month.
When Freda Black talks to him about "your music" on the album, he replies: "Not my music, Freda, it's yours. For her part, Freda was born on Christmas Day in Somerset to a Romany mother and father "who knew everything about a horse". The family moved to the south-east when Freda was five, to weave baskets, train horses and work as circus performers, among other things. Freda, raising infants in caravans and around campfires, hawked antiques door to door, before being installed under a roof during the 60s as part of a government drive to get travellers off the roads they had navigated for a millennium and more.
Labour continued the policy, Jack Straw proclaiming open season in when he said there was "too much tolerance of travellers" in Britain.
Those who still resist are modern Britain's outcasts, as demonstrated by the violence at Dale Farm last year.
Freda married a man from that other ancestry of travellers in Britain, pre-Celts from Ireland and Scotland, so that her nine children are "mixed" — but pure highway.
It's hard to gauge who is happiest to be with whom — Lee with the women or the women with this young man who has sought them out so eagerly.
But their trust is not automatic: "You've worked for this," Freda tells Lee. She sings a song called The Pied Straw, to which Lee says: "You're only the second person in the world I've heard sing that. Lee was born to a Jewish family of artists in Tufnell Park, north London, from a Polish ancestry of tailors on his father's side.
He attended a private school where "I was miserable, the bullied Jewish kid, because I was uncompromising in my refusal to be interested in what everyone else was interested in. But I saw those pains as something I had to fill. My father used to call it God-grovelling — but he'd say, 'Listen through it and enjoy the bits you enjoy.
But schoolboy Lee filled the pain at the antithesis of school: the Forest School Camps to which he went during holidays. These offered "a kind of Quaker- and Native American-inspired alternative to Scouts — teaching kids a new way of living; building a community in the wild, breaking the rules of health and safety, turning children into wildwood folk, encouraged to 'sing everything you see'".
There was, he recalls, "an FSC songbook, a mongrel of 60s pop songs, north-east mining songs, union songs, American folk songs, English drinking songs and murder ballads. His path was charted, but not yet found. Lee graduated from art school in Chelsea and secured work dancing in a burlesque West End show near Leicester Square. He would scramble across roofs into the unlocked bookshop on the top floor of the Photographers' Gallery, where he would rehearse, unknown to its owners.
I suppose that's what I do — climb into other worlds. Lee harboured two great loves: singing and the wild — as he saw it. I see wilderness in Britain as stinging nettles submerging a disused rubbish tip. Or a Gypsy camp, washing hanging between the caravans. Gypsies and nettles fit into any landscape, and Gypsy folk song is made-up cultural nettles. Lee alternated performance nights at the burlesque club with days researching at Cecil Sharp House the north London headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society , a double life that involved, he recalls, "sitting under the table backstage, surrounded by dancing girls attaching their nipple tassels, learning songs by old shepherds".
He looked to find his way through a folk world in which, he says, Martin Carthy and the Watersons had "set the bar" in terms of performing, and in the wake of whom he felt a "terrible sense of filtration" of folk music. I wanted to go upstream, get to the roots.
I bought their CDs and was blown away. I thought, I have to learn all these songs. The Gypsies are our Native Americans: they practise a kind of shamanism mixed with Christianity and the old beliefs. The glory of folk music is "this latency — the power within to express these things, like the power within everything, trees, plants, the inanimate".
Lee's love of song was inseparable from his love of nature and he felt this in the travellers' songs: "I'm a tree-climber," he says, "and this music is for me like being up in the branches, knowing you are connected by its roots, deep into the earth. Lee's muse appears to be a kind of paganism: "It's about respect, really, for these gods, whatever and wherever they are, and the land. When you're close to the land, respect it. Know that whatever you do, every plant you pick, will have consequences.
I know that even walking through a wood has an impact, which makes me lightfooted. I ask. Most of this interview takes place on the terrace of a house that has been in my family for nearly five decades, near to Freda's. Lee and I had arrived late the night before through lashing rain, now blown away by a strong, cold wind in which Lee is happy to sit out in now looking across the downs and at red kites on the wing searching for carrion. Sure thing! Related Posts. About The Author Asa Hawks.
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