Childhood

Audrey Faith Perry was born on September 21, 1967, in Jackson, Mississippi and grew up in the small town of Star, Mississippi. Her father Ted was a factory worker and mother Edna a former bank employee.

Faith is adopted and met her biological mother in the early 1990's.

Faith began singing at a very early age.

As a high school student, she scheduled singing gigs at fairs and churches around her duties as prom queen and cheerleader.

Faith was influenced by Reba McEntire and formed her first band when she was 17 years old, performing at local rodeos.

After graduating from High School, Hill went to college but dropped out and moved to Nashville at the age of 19 in an attempt to pursue a career in country music.

At Nashville, Faith took up a job at the Country Music Fan Fair, selling t-shirts. Her next job, as a secretary at Gary Morris' publishing company, catapulted her to stardom.

Career

Working as a secretary to a music publishing company, Hill's singing was noticed as she sang to herself one day. She got soon signed for Warner Brothers Records.

Faith's first album, titled Take Me As I Am, was released in 1993, and sold 2 million copies with number one hits as "Wild One" (her debut country single) and a rendition of rocker Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart".

Take Me As I Am was a big hit, but surgery on her vocal cords delayed the making of It Matters To Me. This included a song about wife-beating, 'A Man's Home Is His Castle', a duet with Shelby Lynne, 'Keep Walkin' On', and a song written for her by Alan Jackson, 'I Can't Do That Anymore'.

Two years later, in the summer of 1995, her next album "It Matters To Me" was released. The album netted her triple platinum status. "A Man's Home Is His Castle" and the title track album topped the charts for weeks. In addition, the album sold over 3 million copies. After that Faith Hill was firmly established as a country hit maker.

Not long after giving birth to her daughter, Faith, together with husband Tim McGraw, created their duet "It's Your Love" (1997) which instantly burned up the country chart, ranking number one for six weeks.

Faith's third album, Faith broke the record of all previous album releases, selling 4 million copies. Her current album, Breathe, has already sold 3 million copies, while her single "This Kiss" has been at number one for several weeks and has received airplay on country music stations, pop stations, and adult contemporary stations around the world.

In 2002 Faith released her fifth album Cry. The album sold double what her record-breaking 1999 Breathe did. Hill also appeared in Pepsi commercials and landed guest performances on several TV shows and movies.

Faith had the role of Mel Gibson's wife in We Were Soldiers (2002), but left the film and was replaced by Madeleine Stowe.