Faith Hill

中文名： 菲絲·希爾
外文名： Faith Hill
國籍： 美國
出生地： 美國密西西比州
出生日期： 1967年9月21日
職業： 鄉村音樂歌手
小簡介
來自美國小鎮，歌聲感動全國，費絲希爾的成長和愛情故事都是美國夢的實現，人們稱她為“國民天后”。翻開美國告示牌（Billboard）雜志單曲榜，誰敢宣稱自己的歌曲占了三席？費絲希爾辦到了， 這位2000年紅遍全美的實力美女在9月同時以“Breathe”、“The Way You Love Me”及“Let's Make Love”三首歌曲占據排行榜：挺立單曲榜48周的亞軍曲“Breathe”在抒情榜寫下17周冠軍紀錄 ，肯定是千禧年年度抒情冠軍曲 ；“The Way You Love Me”以性感甜美造型二度打入排行榜，被一致看好再為費絲寫下佳績；“Let's Make Love” 則是費絲和樂壇天王老公提姆麥克勞三度對唱的恩愛情歌，夫婦濃濃愛意燃燒人心，再造話題。在此同時，費絲冠軍專輯“呼吸”已寫下四百萬張的驚人銷售，過去四張大碟總銷量更達1500萬張，不過費絲的本事不僅如此。
又有誰2000年先后在超級杯、葛萊美獎、奧斯卡獎、VH1 電視臺天后演唱會（Divas Live）領銜主唱，以歌聲擄獲人心？答案還是費絲希爾，六年來費絲已經拿到 26 座音樂獎項，今年她除了連獲葛萊美獎、百事達獎、VH1 時尚流行獎、全美音樂獎、告示牌音樂影帶獎提名外，更連續兩年蟬聯鄉村協會音樂獎及 TNN鄉村獎年度女歌手的雙重肯定，又證明國民天后的非凡實力。
還有誰能成為今年美國百事可樂、知名化妝品牌Cover Girl、通訊公司Alltel廣告代言人、再次獲選People雜志全球50名最美人物 、成為時尚雜志最愛的封面女郎？仍然是費絲希爾，她是美國NBC電視網Access Hollywood節目選出的2000年娛樂界十大風云人物，費絲的美令人屏息。但最要緊的是一顆歌唱真心意，“當我站在麥克風前那一刻，我告訴自己要發自內心，我就在歌曲中”，就和費絲希爾名字“Faith”一樣，情歌因為費絲·希爾而美麗。
One of the biggest female country stars of the '90s and 2000s, Faith Hill also took advantage of the inroads Shania Twain made into pop territory, becoming an enormous crossover success by the end of the millennium. Of course, Hill's movie star good looks certainly helped her cause, and her much-celebrated marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw gave her career an extra kick of glamour and mystique. Hill may not have appealed to country purists, but she had the star power of a diva even before her pop success.
Faith Hill was born Audrey Faith Perry on September 21, 1967, in Jackson, MS, and grew up in the nearby small town of Star. She was singing for her family as young as age three and first performed publicly at a 4-H luncheon when she was seven. Hill spent much of her childhood singing wherever the opportunity arose, influenced primarily by Reba McEntire, and at age 17 formed a band that played local rodeos. At 19, she quit college and moved to Nashville to make it as a singer, first finding work selling T-shirts. During this time, she was married briefly to music executive Dan Hill. Eventually she was hired as a secretary at a music publishing firm, where she was discovered by accident while singing to herself one day. Encouraged by company head Gary Morris, Hill became a demo singer for the firm and also performed professionally as a harmony vocalist behind singer/songwriter/producer Gary Burr, who produced Hill's own demo tape. A Warner Brothers executive caught Burr and Hill's act at a Nashville club, and wound up signing Hill to a solo deal.
Hill released her debut album, Take Me as I Am, in late 1993, with producer Scott Hendricks at the helm. Success wasn't long in coming; the lead single "Wild One" raced up the country charts en route to a four-week run at number one early the next year, making her the first female country singer in 30 years to top the charts for that long with her debut single. The follow-up, a countrified cover of Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart," also hit number one, as did the album's title track, and Take Me as I Am wound up selling over three million copies. Hill was set to build on her success right away, but had to undergo surgery on her vocal cords, which delayed the recording of her next album. Nevertheless, the wait wasn't unreasonable, and It Matters to Me appeared in the summer of 1995. The title track became her fourth number one country single, and it was accompanied by a string of Top Ten hits that helped push initial sales of the album past the three million mark. Hill was by now a firmly established country hitmaker, and she continued her active touring schedule by teaming up with Tim McGraw in 1996 for the Spontaneous Combustion Tour. It was an apt name, as Hill married McGraw that October. The couple's first child, daughter Gracie, was born in May of 1997, and not long after, their duet "It's Your Love" — recorded for McGraw's Everywhere album — was burning up the country charts, staying at number one for six weeks.
Hill returned in the spring of 1998 with Faith, which provided the first signs that she was interested in crossing over to pop audiences, even if the still-countrified music often straddled the fence instead of making her ambitions explicit. The single "This Kiss" proved the savvy of her approach; not only did it top the country charts for three weeks, but it also became her first pop hit, climbing to number seven. By the time "This Kiss" had run its course on the charts, Hill had given birth to her second daughter with McGraw, Maggie. If Hill had been a star in the country world, she was now rapidly becoming a superstar, known not just for her music but also her pure celebrity; she also signed an endorsement deal with Cover Girl makeup. Her next two singles, "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" (another duet with McGraw) and "Let Me Let Go," hit number one country, though they didn't duplicate the pop success of "This Kiss."
Faith, released in 1998, became Hill's biggest-selling album yet, eventually moving over six million copies and reaching the Top Ten on the LP charts; plus, it became crystal clear that Hill held major crossover appeal. Accordingly, she re-entered the studio immediately after her supporting tour and cut Breathe, a full-fledged bid for pop and adult contemporary success. Breathe entered the charts at number one upon its release in late 1999, and its title track became Hill's biggest hit yet; it spent six weeks on top of the country charts and was an even bigger hit on the adult contemporary charts. While it only climbed to number two pop, the single had such staying power that it wound up the biggest hit of the year 2000. The follow-ups were pretty successful in their own right: "The Way You Love Me" and "There You'll Be" both hit the pop Top Ten, with the former topping the country charts and the latter hitting number one AC. Hill also scored a Top Ten country hit with "Let's Make Love," a third duet with McGraw, and the two teamed up for another tour in 2000. Breathe was a bona fide blockbuster, selling over seven million copies in the U.S. and earning her a slew of award nominations. Hill spent much of 2001 taking a break and spending time with Audrey, her third daughter with McGraw.
In 2002, Hill returned to the spotlight with her fifth studio recording, Cry, a three-million seller whose title track netted her the Best Female Vocal Performance Grammy for 2003. Hill took nearly three years to return to recording, but when she released Fireflies in August 2005 it was hailed as one of her finest works. The lead single "Mississippi Girl" (written by John Rich of the hit country duo Big & Rich) hit number one on the country singles chart, and the album reached number one on the album charts. Her Soul2Soul II tour of 2006, which she co-headlined with McGraw, became the highest-grossing country tour of all time.