Blake Shelton
Blake Tollison Shelton is an American country music singer and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single \”Austin\”. As of May 2020, Shelton has charted 40 singles, including 27 number ones, 17 of which were consecutive. He is also known for his role as a judge on the televised singing competitions Nashville Star, Clash of the Choirs, and as a coach on NBC’s The Voice.
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Blake Tollison Shelton is an American country music singer and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single \”Austin\”. As of May 2020, Shelton has charted 40 singles, including 27 number ones, 17 of which were consecutive. He is also known for his role as a judge on the televised singing competitions Nashville Star, Clash of the Choirs, and as a coach on NBC’s The Voice. Shelton was born in Ada, Oklahoma, to Dorothy, a beauty salon owner, and Richard Shelton, a used car salesman. On November 13, 1990, his older brother Richie Shelton was killed in an automobile accident. After graduating from high school at 17, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a singing career. In 1997, he was aided by Bobby Braddock to obtain a production contract with Sony Music. Some years later in Nashville, he signed to Giant Records. He has been on The Voice since its inception, and, so far, in seven of nineteen seasons, a member of his team has won. His fifth album, Startin’ Fires was released in November 2008. It was followed by the extended plays Hillbilly Bone and All About Tonight in 2010, and the albums Red River Blue in 2011, Based on a True Story… in 2013, Bringing Back the Sunshine in 2014, If I’m Honest in 2016, and Texoma Shore in 2017. His second and third albums, 2003’s The Dreamer and 2004’s Blake Shelton’s Barn & Grill, are gold and platinum, respectively.
His fourth album, Pure BS, was re-issued in 2008 with a cover of Michael Bublé’s pop hit \”Home\” as one of the bonus tracks. His first album was released on February 4, 2003, on Warner Bros. Records. It also produced the Top 20 hits \”All Over Me\”, which Shelton co-wrote with Earl Thomas Conley and Mike Pyle, and \”Ol’ Red\”. The album received a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 1,000,000 copies. The 11th No. 1 broke the record for the most consecutive No. 1 singles in the Country Airplay chart’s 24-year history. His lead-off single, The Baby, reached No 1 on the country charts for three, holding that position for three weeks. Although only reached No 32 and No 32, the second single, Harley Allen Knows That You Well, peaked at No. 24, and earned gold certification as well. He along with Andy Griggs, Tracy Byrd, and Montgomery Gentry, sang guest vocals on Tracy Byrd’s mid-2003 single, “The Truth About Men” The song was the title of Shelton’s third studio album, Blake’s Barn and Grill. The album also produced two more top 20 entries, including the single “When You Knows that You Well’re Well”.
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