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Billy Ray Cyrus曾以一曲"Achy Breaky Heart" 于1992年走红。他也参演过几部电影,近期最引人注目的就是与他的女儿Miley Cyrus出演Disney剧集《Hannah Montana》,并在Hannah Montana原声大碟里与女儿合唱"I learned from you".这张新专辑由disney records发行,其中包括与女儿最新温情演绎的新歌“Ready, Set, Don't Go”.似乎每次Billy Ray Cyrus出名的理由都特殊的尴尬,从前总因为自己的一首“Achy Breaky Heart"而今又因为女儿走红而再度出击。Billy ray Cyrus真的像有些人评价的那样除了帅气的外表和一首好歌之外没有什么出众的才华吗?大家用自己的耳朵来发现吧!
Billy Ray Cyrus will forever be known for the catchy, lightweight single Achy, Breaky Heart, which became a line-dancing anthem upon its 1992 release. Achy, Breaky Heart made Cyrus famous, but it also proved to be his undoing. No matter how he tried, he couldnt escape the song, nor could he replicate the success. Cyrus music was never particularly innovative — it owed as much to the country-rock of the Eagles as it did to the new traditionalism of George Strait and the new country of Clint Black and Garth Brooks — but his musical worth became irrelevant in the wake of the success of Achy, Breaky Heart and its accompanying album, Some Gave All. The album became a crossover success after the single became a hit, spending 17 weeks on the top of the album charts. Part of Cyrus success was due to his handsome, hunky good looks, and part of it was due to the catchiness of Achy, Breaky Heart. However, both his good looks and the single were soon forgotten, and just two years after Some Gave All ruled the charts, Cyrus virtually disappeared from both the pop and country charts. Cyrus spent a decade as part of the long history of one-hit wonders, only to return to chart success in the wake of his daughter Mileys popular TV show, Hannah Montana, in 2007.
Enamored of baseball, Cyrus intended to become another Johnny Bench as he grew up in Flatlands, KY. While attending Georgetown College on a baseball scholarship, he bought a guitar and decided immediately that athletics wasnt the proper direction for his life. Instead, he formed a band called Sly Dog with his brother and gave himself a ten-month deadline for finding a place to play. One week prior to that cutoff date, the group went to work as the house band for a club in Ironton, OH, where they remained for two years. When a 1984 fire destroyed the bar — and Cyrus equipment — he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career. Eventually, he decided to return to Kentucky and commuted regularly from there to Nashville in search of a record deal. Grand Ole Opry star Del Reeves got Mercury Records to take a look, and division head Harold Shedd signed him in the summer of 1990. When his first album came out in mid-1992, Cyrus — with his good looks, sculpted body, and the infectious Achy, Breaky Heart — became an instant groundbreaking sensation. Spending five weeks at the top of the country charts, Achy, Breaky Heart made his debut album, Some Gave All, a blockbuster success. By the time it fell off the charts, it had sold over nine million copies and spent 17 weeks on the top of the pop charts.
Despite his attempts, Cyrus wasnt able to replicate the success of Some Gave All. He quickly followed the album with It Wont Be the Last in the summer of 1993. Initially, the album sold well, entering the pop charts at number three, but it fell far short of expectations by only reaching platinum status. Storm in the Heartland, delivered in the fall of 1994, managed to go gold, even though it was ignored by country radio. However, by the time it finished its chart run, Cyrus had slipped from the publics eye. When he returned with the harder-edged, introspective Trail of Tears in 1996, his audience had virtually disappeared — the album only spent four weeks on the charts and didnt even go gold. Shot Full of Love followed in 1998 and Southern Rain was issued two years later.
In March 2001, Cyrus hit TV screens in the role of a country doctor moved to Manhattan in the sitcom Doc. He returned to music world with 2003s Time Flies and the gospel-inspired Other Side, and in 2006, the same year Cyrus appeared on the Disney Channels Hannah Montana, a show starring his real-life daughter Miley, Wanna Be Your Joe came out. While the album failed to spawn a successful single, it nevertheless went gold — Cyrus first album in eight years to do so. Riding on the wave of Hannah Montanas popularity, Cyrus released his tenth studio album, Home at Last, in 2007 on the Disney label. The album debuted at number 20 on the U.S. Billboard charts, both re-establishing Cyrus as a presence in country music and highlighting the popularity (not to mention influence) of his daughters show.