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spent his youth abusing drugs and alcohol and on the wrong side of the law. He also discovered a love of music and was playing guitar at a small local club when he was spotted by a nightclub owner Lib Hatcher, who would go on to be his manager and then his wife. After five years of paying dues in North Carolina, Travis and Hatcher moved to Nashville in 1981, where every record turned them down. Hatcher took a job managing a club called the Nashville Palace, and while their Travis recorded an independent album, based upon which Hatcher convinced Warner Brothers to offer Travis a record deal. Travis' second single for Warner, "1982," was a Top 10 hit that kicked his career into high gear. In 1986, Travis' debut album for Warner, Storms of Life, sold five million copies. In the same year, he was invited to become a member of the prestigious Grand Ole Opry. The following year, the LP Always And Forever earned Travis a Grammy Award, as well as the Country Music Association's Male Vocalist of the Year Award. His next three albums -- Old 8 X 10 (1988), No Holdin' Back (1989), and Heroes And Friends (1990), which included duets with George Jones, Tammy Wynette, B. B. King, and Roy Rogers -- also sold millions of copies, and proved that Hatcher's faith in the artist had not been misplaced.



Travis spent most of the 90s pursuing a successful acting career, but returned to music with 1998's You and You Alone, which put Travis back in the spotlight with Top 5 singles "Out of My Bones," and "Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man," and the Top 10 single "The Hole." In 2000, he followed with Inspirational Journey, a contemporary Gospel album on Warner Bros. Travis released a second Christian-themed album, Rise and Shine, in 2002. In 2004, he was awarded a Grammy for the album and thereafter continued to pursue the Christian inspirational market. Indeed, Randy Travis had completely transformed himself through music, an extraordinary inspirational accomplishment in in of itself.