Faith Hill: Sunday Night Football - Gotta have faith
Faith Hill (born
Audrey Faith Perry; September 21, 1967) is an American country singer. She is
known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star
Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and
accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S.
Country charts.
Hill has been
honored by the Grammy Awards, the Academy of Country Music, the Country Music
Association, the American Music Awards and the People's Choice Awards. Her
Soul2Soul II Tour 2006 with McGraw became the highest-grossing country tour of
all time.[1] In 2001, she was named one of the "30 Most Powerful Women in
America" by Ladies Home Journal. In 2008, Hill released her first
Christmas album, titled Joy to the World. In 2009 Billboard named her as the
No. 1 Adult Contemporary artist of the decade 2000–2009. Hill was ranked the
39th best artist of the 2000–2010 decade by Billboard.
In 2007 Hill took
over as the signature voice of NFL on NBC's Sunday Night Football, singing the
theme song about which the show's producer said:[24]
It's not often that you get the opportunity
to have a mega-star like Faith Hill perform the signature open to your show.
—NBC Sunday Night Football producer Fred
Gaudelli, MSNBC
In September 2008,
Hill issued her first Christmas album, titled Joy to the World. The compilation
was given positive reviews, including about.com, which gave the album four and
a half out of five stars, calling the album, "a great collection of classic
Christmas songs." Hill continually worked on the album two years prior to
its official release. The album included one new track, "A Baby Changes
Everything", which was released as the album's only single in late
2008.[25] The song debuted at No. 24 on Billboard's AC chart, and quickly rose
to No. 1, becoming Hill's fourth number one on that chart.
On February 1, 2009
Hill performed "America the Beautiful" at the Super Bowl XLIII
pregame show. The other performers at the pregame show were Jennifer Hudson and
Journey, and Bruce Springsteen performed at the Halftime show.[26]
In October 2010,
Hill contributed to the Country Strong soundtrack. On it, she recorded a song
titled 'Give In To Me'. Hill also appears on Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute
To Loretta Lynn, on which she performs "Love Is The Foundation." Hill
also contributed her vocals on the Ryan Tedder penned song "All I Ever
Wanted" for the 2010 feature film Life As We Know It . The song was used
in trailers to promote the film and also appeared during the end credits of the
film. -Wikipedia
