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Biography ………………………..……………....…..page 3,4,5,6 Albums ……………….………………………..….……..page 6, 7, 8 Awards…..…………………………………….......…...page 8,9,10 Photos………………………………………………….……..page 10
Questions……………..………………………………….…page 11
Websites…………………………………………………….page 11 Song…………………………….………………..……..page 12,13

Biography One of the biggest country stars of the 90’s and 2000’s Faith Hill of course! Faith Hill’s movie star good looks surely helped her cause, and her much celebrated marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw gave her a career purists, but she had the star power of a diva even before her pop success.
Faith Hill was born Audrey Faith Perry on September 21, 1967(age 41), in Jackson Mississippi, she was adopted as an infant and raised by a couple in the nearby small town of Star where she grew up. At the age of three she was already singing for her family and first performed publicly at a 4-H luncheon when she was about seven. Faith Hill spent most of her childhood singing whenever the chance came. At age seventeen she formed a band that played local rodeos. At the age of nineteen she quit college and moved to Nashville to make it as a singer. During that time, she was married briefly to music supervisory Dan Hill. In time, she was hired as a secretary at a music publishing firm, where she was discovered by accident while singing to herself one day. Encouraged by company head Gary Morris, Faith Hill became a demo singer foot the firm and also preformed professionally as a harmony vocalist behind the singer, song writer, and producer Gary Burr and Faith Hill’s act at Nashville club, and wound up singing Faith Hill to a solo deal.
Faith Hill released her debut album; Take Me as I am, in the late 1993. Success wasn’t long in coming the lead single “Wild One” raced up the country charts in route to a four week run at number early the next year, making her the first female country

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