Biography

When growing higher, Travis was forced to require guitar lessons by his father, Harold Traywick, and Travis began performing at a age of eight using his brother, Ricky. Travis typically fought by owning his father & shortly dropped away from senior high. He became the juvenile delinquent & was arrested for various offenses including auto thievery and burglary.

Harold Traywick entered Randy & Ricky within the talent contest at the nightclub called "Country City, USA" inside Charlotte, North Carolina. Ricky, world health organization as well got brushes using a law, was sentenced to gaol & Randy experienced to complete a contest solo, however won anyway. A club's manager, Mary Elizabeth "Lib" Hatcher, took an interest inside Travis & gave him a job singing at the club. Travis began focusing in music. He foremost recorded for Paula Records and released an abortive individual, "She's My Woman."

Travis' legal troubles continued & he dollarfish within court for probation violations. Hatcher pleaded sustaining a judge & Travis was freed around her custody using a warning that whenever a judge ever saw him over again "he'd better bring his toothbrush, because he would be going to jail for a very long time."

Travis moved around by owning Hatcher. This put farther strain in her already fragile marriage. She finally left her married man &, within 1981, she and Travis moved to Nashville, Tennessee without much to the higher degree a dream. Travis was shortly turned down by each record label around town. His early demonstration tapes were criticized by Nashville record executives when existence "too country." Hatcher took the job when manager of the cabaret, "The Nashville Palace," & leased Travis as a cook & singer. Around 1982, Travis recorded an independent album Randy Ray Live and Lib Hatcher used it to locate the treat by using Warner Bros. records. Inside 1985, Warner Bros. discharged Travis' individual. "On the Other Hand." which topped retired at 67 on the united states stock and index charts. His next only, "1982," turn into a Top 10 hit followed the re-release of "On the Other Hand" around 1986. A re-release became Travis' foremost first hit.

His debut album, Storms of Life, went on to sell further than Four million copies. In the late 1980s, he had the string of hits including "Forever and Ever, Amen", "No Place Like Home" & "Diggin' Up Bones." 2 years around a row, he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, for the album Always & Forever within 1988, and for Old 8x10 in 1989. Universally & Forever was There are no. Single for 43 weeks.

Travis & Hatcher married around 1991, that year Travis participate within Voices That Care, the multi-artist task that features more top list inside music for the 1-off lone to raise money for the allied troops in the Gulf War. A plan involved fellow united states singers Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers and Kathy Mattea. By 1992, Travis wwhen no protracted charting high, as Brooks, Clint Black and others had taken all over Nashville. He took the break from either music to concentrate in acting and landed roles in many American genre films. He returned to recording by owning 1994's This Is Me and the hit individual "Whisper My Name."

Around 1997, Travis was not re-signed by Warner Brothers. He moved to DreamWorks Nashville and recorded Busy people & You Alone which produced a top Tenner hits "Out of My Bones" & "Spirit of a Boy, Wisom of a Man." His latest albums come 2000's Inspirational Journey, 2002's Rise and Shine and 2003's Worship and Faith. A only "Three Wooden Crosses" from either a Rise & Refulgency album reached There is no. Single & won a CMA song of the season within 2003. Travis continues to work inside film & television. His virtually all recent album, Passing Across, was freed around November of 2004. It combines a c and w of his sooner years using a bit gospel mixed inside from either supplementary recent albums.

Discography

Storms Of Life................(Discharged in 6/6/86)

Universally & Forever............(Discharged in 5/4/87)

Old 8x10......................(Discharged in 7/12/88)

An Old Instance Christmas.........(Discharged in 8/29/89)

There are no Holdin' Back...............(Discharged in 9/26/89)

Heroes & Friends............(Discharged in 9/11/90)

High Lonesome.................(Discharged in 8/23/91)

Greatest Hits Album Vol. One&2..(Released on 9/15/92)

Wind In The Wire..............(Discharged in 8/17/93)

This Is Pine tree state....................(Discharged in 4/26/94)

Good Circle...................(Discharged in 8/13/96)

Professional people & We Alone.............(Discharged in 4/21/98)

The Human Ain't Manufactured Of Stone.....(Discharged in 9/21/99)

Inspirational Journeying.........(Discharged around 10/00)

Randy Travis Survive.............(Discharged within 8/01)

Anthology.....................(Discharged in 7/16/02)

Rise & Shine................(Discharged in 10/15/02)

Worship & Faith...............(Released on 11/11/03)

Passing Across...............(Discharged in 11/09/04)