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<a href="/biography/travis-tritt">James Travis Tritt</a> was born on February 9, 1963 in Marietta, Georgia. He is an American <a href="/biography/travis-tritt">country music singer</a>, songwriter, and also an actor. Born from <a href="/biography/travis-tritt">James</a> and Gwen Tritt, he had the music on his blood since he was very young: Travis received his first guitar when he was 8 years old, and he taught himself how to play it. He started playing the guitar at school, and he’s been invited to play for his class but also in front of other ones. When he was 14yo, he got another guitar as a present from his parents, and he learned more songs even from his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Lockhart">uncle</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Lockhart">Sam Lockhart</a>. Travis attended the “Sprayberry High School”, where he started writing songs.

One of his first compositions, “Spend a Little Time”, was about a girlfriend with whom he had broken up. Travis founded a bluegrass group with his friends, and he placed on the second place in a local tournament. Travis’ parents divorced, and he went to live with his mother. He worked at a furniture store, as a supermarket clerk, and at an air conditioning company. His father didn’t believe he could have become a successful musician, while his mother wanted him to play Christian music rather than country. With the help of the executive of Warner Bros Records, Danny Davenport, Travis recorded some demos, including the demo album “Proud of the Country”, that convinced someone at the Warner Bros division of Nashville to sign <a href="/biography/travis-tritt">James</a> in 1987. His first single has been “Country Club” in 1988, and it spent 26 weeks in the Hot Country Singles & Tracks, reaching the position number 9.

This song was also the title of his debut album. His second single “Help Me Hold On” reached the number 1 in 1990, and the other third and fifth singles always of his debut album, the tracks “I’m Gonna Be Somebody” and “Drift Off to Dream”, reached the number 2 and the number 3 of the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, while the track “Put Some Drive In Your Country”, reached the number 29 on Hot Country Songs. His album sold more than 1 million copies, and got certified as platinum by the RIAA in 1991, becoming later in 1996 a double-platinum. Travis won in 1990 the award from Billboard as the “Top New Male Artist”, while in 1991 he won the Horizon Award.

He also released his second album, “It’s All About to Change”, that became a triple-platinum, with all four of its singles that reached the top 5 on the country music charts (the tracks were "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)", "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'," "Anymore", and "Nothing Short of Dying"). Travis sang with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Stuart">Marty Stuart</a> the song "The Whiskey Ain't Working", and the duet won the “Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals” in 1992. Travis and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Stuart">Marty</a> began a tour in 1992, the “No Hats Tour”, and in August of the same year Travis released his third album, “T-R-O-U-B-L-E”. The song “Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man” reached the number 4, while it follow-up, “Can I Trust You with My Heart”, reached the number 1 in the Billboard. The other singles “T-R-O-U-B-L-E”, “Looking Out for Number One”, and “Worth Every Mile” reached respectively the places number 13, 11, and 30.

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The album became a double-platinum, and in the same year Travis released a Christmas album titled “A Travis Tritt Christmas: Loving Time of the Year”. In the early 1994 Travis recorded the cover of the Eagles’ “Take It Easy”, and he got to have the band, that was in a hiatus at that time, to participate to the video of the song. Always in 1994 Travis recorded his fourth album, “Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof”. The singles “Foolish Pride” and “Tell Me I Was Dreaming” reached the number 1 and the number 2 of the billboard. Even this album became a best seller, reaching the platinum certification by December of the same year. In 1995 Travis released his fifth album “Greatest Hits: From The Beginning”.

In 1996 Travis and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Stuart">Marty Stuart</a> recorded another duet, “Honky Tonkin’s What I Do Best”, and they won the Country Music Association award for “Vocal Event”. They also started another tour together in that same year, the “Double Trouble Tour”. Always in 1996 Travis released is fifth album, “The Restless Kind”, with the single “More Than You’ll Ever Know” at the number 3, and the cover “Where Corn Don’t Grow” at the number 6. In 1998 Travis released his sixth album, the last one for WB, whose title was “No More Looking over My Shoulder”, with the song “If I Lost You” that reached the number 29 on the Country Charts. In 1999 he won the Grammy for the “Best Country Collaboration with Vocals” for “Same Old Train”, always in couple with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Stuart">Marty Stuart</a>. Travis signed with Columbia Records, and in 2000 he released the album “Down The Road I Go”.

The single “Best of Intentions” reached his fifth and last (at least for now) number 1 in the Billboard, while the songs “It’s A Great Day to Be Alive” and “Love of a Woman” reached both the number 2. In 2002 Travis released “Strong Enough” and, in 2004, he released his 10th studio album “My Honky Tonk History”. Travis’ last two albums are “The Storm” in 2007”, and “The Calm After..” in 2013.

Travis has also participated in more than 20 movies and TV Series, mostly impersonating himself, the most famous of which are “King Of The Hill” (2003) and “The Girls  Next Door” (2008). 
 
Travis married his high school fiancée Karen Ryon in 1982, but they divorced already in 1984. His second wedding has been with Jodi Barnett, a woman 12 years older than him, but they divorced after a few years. In 1997 Travis married Theresa Nelson, and the couple had two sons, Tristan James (1999), and Tarian Nathaniel (2003) and one daughter, Tyler Reese (1998).

Travis is active on social media, and he has a twitter account with about 75k followers, and a Facebook page with almost 1.2 million of followers.

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