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Clint Black may be available for your next special event!
Grand Ole Opry Member
-- since 1991
During
his long reign as one of country music's most consistent chart kings, Clint
Black has established a sterling reputation as a song poet, singer
and showman. He has brought the music world a string of million-selling albums
and more than 20 top-10 hits by continually urging his creative spirits
to new heights.
 "Every now and then I like to throw myself a curve
ball, just to see which way I'll move," says Black with a chuckle.
"You won't naturally move in any direction unless you make
yourself."
Clint Black was born in New Jersey, but raised
in Katy, Texas, a suburb of Houston. As a child, he listened to both
country and rock & roll, but he didn't begin playing guitar until
the age of 13, when he started playing harmonica. Two years later, he
began writing songs, as well as performing in his brother Kevin's band,
where he played bass and sang. In the early '80s, he began playing music
on the streets of Katy, eventually working his way into coffeehouses,
bars, and night clubs.
 Hayden
Nicholas was the first to join Clint Black in his creative endeavor. The
struggling Houston honky-tonker met Nicholas in January
1987. They began to co-write and to record in Hayden's little studio.
The first thing they got on tape was "Nobody's Home," which
later became one of Black's chart-topping hits. That fall, Clint Black
introduced his music to RCA Records, who subsequently released his debut
album, "Killin'
Time," in 1989.
He burst on the charts in February 1989 with
"Better Man," the first of five consecutive No.1 hits from his
debut album that made him the leader of the "new country"
movement. By that summer, Black was playing arenas as a special guest on
some of the biggest country tours. In October of that year, Clint
Black was awarded the Country Music Association's prestigious Horizon
Award for his achievements as a new artist. His reputation spread like wildfire throughout 1990.
Black became a huge media and fan favorite with his unflagging energy,
professionalism, friendliness, magnetism and easy-going charm. "Killin'
Time" was succeeded by "Put Yourself In My
Shoes," which yielded four more top-10 hits and became his second multi-million
seller. He won the CMA's Male Vocalist of the Year award, the
American Music Award as Favorite New Male Country Artist and also
received Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Best New Male Vocalist
and Best Male Vocalist awards from the Academy of Country Music, all in
one year.
 Clint Black joined the cast of the Grand Ole Opry in January
1991. In mid-year the legendary Roy Rogers became the first of his duet
partners. He and Lisa Hartman married that October. "The Hard Way"
became his third album in early 1992; and Black promoted it with a
lavish $250,000 stage production that was seen by more than a million
people that year.
His duet with Wynonna, "A Bad Goodbye,"
became a massive hit in 1993 and their national tour together was named
Concert of the Year by Playboy. "No
Time To Kill" was issued
as Black's fourth platinum CD. Contributing to "Common
Thread: Songs of The Eagles," he recorded "Desperado,"
which found
its own legs as a country radio favorite. That album earned the CMA's
Album of the Year honor.
Thanks to a string of hits from his fifth CD, "One
Emotion," Clint Black was named radio's most played country
artist of 1994 by Billboard magazine. In September 1994, his
Merle
Haggard song collaboration "Untanglin' My Mind" hit the
charts. Also in '94, Black staged his acting debut in TV's "Wings"
and recorded "A Good Run of Bad Luck" for Mel Gibson's "Maverick," where he appeared as a gambler who was thrown overboard for
cheating. The song, which was featured on the movie's soundtrack, also
inspired Black's first foray into video directing.
Black continued to
direct his own videos, including "Summer's Comin'," a
star-studded video featuring appearances by
Jay
Leno, Dick Clark,
Howie
Mandel, David Hasselhoff, Joey Lawrence, Lee
Sklar, George Kennedy, Gerald McRainey and Lisa Hartman Black.
In 1995, Clint Black issued his holiday
collection of original compositions, "Looking for
Christmas,"
and was still seeing success from back-to-back chart-topping singles
from his "One
Emotion" album.
The "Greatest Hits" album contained three
new tunes. Two of them, "Like the Rain" and "Halfway
Up," became his 23rd and 24th top-10 smashes.
Awards include --
 Country Weekly Presents the TNN Music Awards |
Collaborative Event of the Year |
2000 |
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Academy of Country Music |
Vocal Event of the Year |
1999 |
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GRAMMY |
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals |
1998 |
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CMA |
Vocal Event of the Year |
1993 |
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American Music Awards |
Favorite New Artist |
1990 |
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CMA |
Male Vocalist of the Year |
1990 |
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TNN/Music City News |
Star of Tomorrow |
1990 |
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TNN/Music City News |
Album of the Year |
1990 |
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CMA |
Horizon Award |
1989 |
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Academy of Country Music |
Album of the Year |
1989 |
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Academy of Country Music |
Single of the Year |
1989 |
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Academy of Country Music |
Top Male Vocalist |
1989 |
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Academy of Country Music |
Top New Male Vocalist |
1989 |
Hit songs include --
- Killin' Time
- Like the Rain
- Loving Blind
- Nobody's Home
- Nothin' But the Taillights
- Summer's Coming
- Walkin' Away
- When I Said I Do
- When My Ship Comes In
- Where Are You Now
- A Better Man
- A Good Run of Bad Luck
- The Shoes You're Wearing
- One Emotion
- Something That We Do
- State of Mind
Clint Black
may be available for your next special event!
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Genre:
Country
Styles:
.New Traditionalist. / NewTraditionalist
.Contemporary Country. / ContemporaryCountry
Years active:
x80s, x90s, x00s, x10s
Born: ..in New Jersey / born nNewJersey
Born: ..in Long Branch / born
LongBranchNJ
Born: Feb 4, 1962
Raised: ..in Texas / nTexas
Raised: ..in Houston
area / HoustonTX
Raised: ..in Katy / KatyTX
Based: ..in US
Based: ..in Tennessee / based nTennessee
Based: ..in Nashville /
based NashvilleTN
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