George Strait

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1952年5月18日，George Strait出生在美国Texas州的Pearsall。20岁时，George Strait与Norma步入了婚姻的殿堂。在夏威夷，George Strait进入军队服役。在军队中，George Strait开始和一支名叫Rambling Country的乐队一起为自己的战友们演出。1975年，George Strait离开了军队，他回到Texas，决定完成自己的学业。George Strait在西南德克萨斯州立大学拿到了自己的农业学位，在此学习期间，他还创建了自己的乡村乐队Ace in the Hole。Ace in the Hole乐队出版过几张唱片，但没有什么反响。之后，George尝试个人发展。1979年，George Strait认识了以前曾在MCA唱片公司工作过的Erv Woolsey。 Woolsey让MCA唱片公司的一些管理人员来德克萨斯听了George Strait的演唱，他的出色表现使自己成功签约。

1981年春，George Strait的首支单曲《Unwound》正式发行并一举进入排行榜前十。之后的《If You're Thinking You Want a Stranger (There's One Coming Home)》在82年成为排行榜第三的单曲。而从82年的《Fool Hearted Memory》算起，George Strait一共拥有了31首排行榜的冠军单曲。1992年，George Strait出演了自己的第一部电影《Pure Country》，片中George担任主演。1995年，George Strait推出了一张4碟的合辑，以回顾自己音乐生涯。

自从在80年代初崛起之后，George Strait的音乐生涯在90年代以及新世纪之初一直处于美国乡村音乐的最前沿，并且几乎每年都有一张新唱片出品。2004年10月，George Strait的经典合辑《50 Number Ones》成功发行并且成为了他近年来销量最出色的唱片之一，2005年6月28日，在时隔两年之后George Strait发行了他的第28张专辑《Somewhere Down in Texas》。

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Out of all the new country singers to emerge in the early 80s, George Strait stayed the closest to traditional country. Drawing from both the honky tonk and Western swing traditions, Strait didnt refashion the genres; instead, he revitalized them for a new decade. In the process, he became one of the most popular and influential singers of the decade, sparking a wave of neo-traditionalist singers from Randy Travis and Dwight Yoakam to Clint Black, Garth Brooks, and Alan Jackson.

Strait was born and raised in Texas, the son of a junior high school teacher who also owned and operated a ranch that had been in the Strait family for nearly hundred years. When George was a child, his mother left the family, taking her daughter but leaving behind her sons with the father. During his childhood, he would spend his weekdays in town and his weekends on the ranch. Strait began playing music as a teenager, joining a rock & roll garage band.

After his high-school graduation in the late 60s, Strait enrolled in college but soon dropped out and eloped with his high school sweetheart, Norma. In 1971, Strait enlisted in the Army; two years later, he was stationed Hawaii. While in Hawaii, he began playing country music, initially with an Army-sponsored country band called Rambling Country. They played several dates off the base under the name Santee. Strait left the Army in 1975, returning to Texas with the intent of completing his education. He enrolled in Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos, where he studied agriculture. While he was studying, he formed his own country band, Ace in the Hole.

Ace in the Hole made a few records for the independent Dallas-based label D in the late 70s, but they never went anywhere. Toward the end of the decade, Strait attempted to carve out a niche in Nashville, but he failed since he lacked any strong connections. In 1979, he became friends with Erv Woolsey, a Texas club owner who had formerly worked for MCA Records. Woolsey had several MCA executives come down to Texas to hear Strait. His performance convinced the company to sign him in 1980.

Unwound, Straits first single, was released in the spring of 1981 and climbed into the Top Ten. The follow-up, Down and Out, stalled at 16, but If Youre Thinking You Want a Stranger (Theres One Coming Home) reached number three in early 1982. The song sparked a remarkable string of Top Ten hits that ran well into the 90s. During that time he had an astonishing 31 number one singles, beginning with 1982s Fool Hearted Memory.

Throughout the 80s, he dominated the country singles charts, and his albums consistently went platinum or gold. Strait rarely abandoned hardcore honky tonk and Western swing — toward the beginning of the 90s, his sound became a little slicker, but it was only a relative change. Strait was also one of the few 80s superstars to survive the generational shift of the early 90s that began with the phenomenal success of Brooks. In 1992, he made his first movie, Pure Country, which featured him in the lead role. Strait released a four-disc box set career retrospective, Strait out of the Box, in 1995. By the spring of 1996, it had become one of the five biggest-selling box sets in popular music history. Blue Clear Sky, his 1996 album, debuted on the country charts at number one and the pop charts at number seven. In 1997, he released Carrying Your Love with Me, following it with One Step at a Time in 1998. Always Never the Same appeared a year later, as did the seasonal effort Merry Christmas Wherever You Are. The simply titled George Strait, featuring the hit single Go On, hit the shelves in late 2000.

Did Strait slow down? Nay. 2001 saw the release of The Road Less Traveled, which qualified as an experimental album of sorts for the veteran performer. While it didnt stray very far from his new traditionalist country sound, Road did include a foray into vocal processing that was about as country as a pair of stiletto-healed cowboy boots. But the experimentation was welcome, for it revealed that Strait was still hungry, even after millions upon millions of records sold. Strait issued two projects in 2003. For the Last Time: Live from the Astrodome chronicled his headlining set at the last Houston Livestock and Rodeo ever held in the big Texas dome, while Honkytonkville was a fiery set of hard country, lauded by critics for its mixture of the old Strait with his modern, superstar self. Somewhere Down in Texas arrived in 2005, followed by It Just Comes Natural in 2006.

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George Strait　乔治·斯雀特