50 facts about Faith Hill: her nineteen-year career has been highlighted by the sale of over 30 million records worldwide

Faith Hill won 3 Country Music Association Awards, 12 Academy of Country Music Awards, 4 American Music Awards, and 4 People's Choice Awards. Learn 50 things you didn't know about your favorite singer Hill.

1. Faith Hill has established herself as one of the music industry's top vocalists, with a voice that is as powerful as it is recognizable.

2. Her nineteen-year career has been highlighted by the sale of over 30 million records worldwide.

3. Hill has celebrated thirteen #1 singles and twenty #1 videos.

4. She is the only female artist to have her last 3 studio albums all debut consecutively at #1 on Billboard's Top Pop Album Chart and Country Chart.

5. Faith is a five-time Grammy Award winner.

6. She has also won 3 Country Music Association Awards, 12 Academy of Country Music Awards, 4 American Music Awards, and 4 People's Choice Awards.

7. Her ability to draw television audiences nationwide is evidenced by the success of her own network television specials; 2000's CBS Network broadcast of "FAITH!", NBC Network's broadcast of 2002's "FAITH HILL: When The Lights Go Down," 2005's "FAITH HILL: FIREFLIES," as well as hosting CBS' "HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS" in 2008 and 2009.

8. In 2008, Faith released her first Christmas album, JOY TO THE WORLD, and performed those songs with an orchestra for PBS' Soundstage that same year.

9. For the 4th consecutive year, Faith is once again the voice of NBC's Sunday Night Football's weekly show open.

10. In 2009, when Faith performed America The Beautiful at the Super Bowl, she became the only country artist to ever perform both America The Beautiful and the National Anthem at the Super Bowl.

11. She performed the Anthem at Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000. She has performed at every major awards show including multiple appearances at The Academy Awards, The Grammy Awards and VH1's Divas 1999 and 2000.

12. In 2001, Faith appeared on "America: A Tribute To Heroes," a benefit for the rescue workers and victims of the September 11th attacks.

13. In 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, she appeared on NBC's "A Concert for Hurricane Relief."

14. Faith co-headlined 2006's Soul2Soul II Tour, which became the highest grossing country tour of all time and the most attended of the year, in any musical genre.

15. In 2009, Coty, Inc. debuted Faith's first fragrance called Faith Hill Parfums.

16. Her second fragrance, Faith Hill True, arrived in stores in the fall of 2010.

17. Raised in Star, Mississippi, Faith moved to Nashville at the age of 19.

18. In 1993, her debut single, "Wild One", spent four weeks at #1 and from there she never looked back.

19. Faith is married to fellow country music superstar Tim McGraw.

20. Together they have 3 children: Gracie, Maggie & Audrey.

21. Faith Hill was born as Audrey Faith Perry.

22. She is an American country pop singer and occasional actress.

23. She is one of the most successful country artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million records worldwide.

24. Hill's first two albums, Take Me as I Am (1993) and It Matters to Me (1995), established her as a popular country singer.

25. She later rose to mainstream, crossover and international fame with the release of her next two albums, Faith (1998) and Breathe (1999).

26. Faith spawned her first international hit, "This Kiss", and went multi-platinum in various countries.

27. Breathe became her best-selling album to date and one of the best-selling country albums of all time, with the huge crossover success of her signature songs, "Breathe" and "The Way You Love Me".

28. Breathe had massive sales worldwide and earned Hill three Grammy Awards, including Best Country Album.

29. In 2001, she recorded "There You'll Be" for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack and it became an international hit and her best-selling single in Europe.

30. In 2001, she was named one of the "30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies Home Journal.

31. In 2009, Billboard named her as the No. 1 Adult Contemporary artist of the 2000 decade and also as the 39th best artist.

32. From 2007 to 2012, Hill was the voice of NBC Sunday Night Football's intro song.

33. Hill was born in Ridgeland, Mississippi, north of Jackson, Mississippi.

34. She was adopted as an infant, and named Audrey Faith Perry.

35. Her adoptive parents, Edna and Ted Perry, raised her with their two biological sons in a devout Christian environment.

36. Hill's vocal talent was apparent early, and she had her first public performance, at a 4-H luncheon, when she was seven.

37. In 1976, a few days before her 9th birthday, she attended a concert by Elvis Presley at the State Fair Coliseum, in Jackson, which impressed her deeply.

38. By the time she was a teenager, Hill was a regular performer at area churches, even those not in her own Baptist denomination.

39. At 17, Hill formed a band that played in local rodeos.

40. At times, she sang for prisoners at the Hinds County Jail, her song of choice being "Amazing Grace".

41. At age 19 she quit school to move to Nashville and pursue her dream of being a country singer.

42. In her early days in Nashville, Hill auditioned to be a backup singer for Reba McEntire, but failed to secure the job.

43. After a stint selling T-shirts, Hill became a secretary at a music publishing firm.

44. Additionally, Hill also landed a job at a local McDonald's restaurant franchise, which she disliked intensely. "Fries, burgers, cash register - I did it all, I hated it," she has said.

45. A co-worker heard Hill singing to herself one day, and soon the head of her music publishing company was encouraging her to become a demo singer for the firm.

46. She supplemented this work by singing backup vocals for songwriter Gary Burr, who often performed his new songs at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe.

47. During one of those performances, Bob Saporiti, an executive from Warner Bros. Records was in the audience, and, impressed with Hill's voice, began the process of signing her to a recording contract. Shortly after the release of her album, Hill's marriage fell apart. She and Daniel Hill divorced in 1994.

48. In 1995, Hill guest starred in an episode of Touched by an Angel. Hill won the role of Julia Compton Moore, the wife of LTC Hal Moore, played by Mel Gibson, in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers but ultimately left the film, giving the role to Madeline Stowe.

49. Her film debut was in the summer of 2004, when Hill co-starred with Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick and Glenn Close in director Frank Oz's remake of the 1975 thriller The Stepford Wives.

50. Hill used her 1999 tour to support a national children's book drive, The Faith Hill Family Literacy Project. The charity was inspired by Faith's father, who faced challenges with literacy.

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