Tim McGraw

In 1966, D'Agostino was a student at Terry Parker High School.

She lived in the same apartment building as Tug McGraw, who was playing baseball for Jacksonville.

When she became pregnant with McGraw as a teen, D'Agostino's parents sent her to Louisiana to live with relatives.

Through his father, McGraw has two half-brothers, Mark and Matthew, and a half-sister named Cari.

He also has two younger half-sisters, Tracey and Sandra, through his mother's marriage to Horace Smith.

McGraw grew up believing Smith was his father, and used this stepfather's surname until meeting Tug.

At age 11, McGraw discovered his birth certificate while searching in his mother's closet to look for a picture for a school project.

Following the discovery, he learned from her who his biological father was and she took him to meet the elder McGraw for the first time.

Tug McGraw denied the parentage for seven years until Tim was 18 years old.

Samuel Timothy McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

He has released 16 studio albums (11 for Curb Records, four for Big Machine Records and one for Arista Nashville).

McGraw followed his mother when she returned to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1987.

After the move, he attended Florida Community College at Jacksonville for one term, and occasionally sat in with local bands.

In 1989, on the day his hero Keith Whitley died, McGraw dropped out of college to head to Nashville and pursue a musical career.

McGraw came to the attention of Curb Records in 1990.

After cutting a demo single, McGraw gave a copy to his father.

A man who was friends with Curb Records executives heard the demo while driving with Tug one day and recommended that Curb contact the young singer.

Several weeks later, he was able to play his tape for Curb executives, after which they signed him to a recording contract.

McGraw made his debut with the single "What Room Was the Holiday In", which was released on March 29, 1991, and did not enter the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart upon its release.

Two years later in April 1993, McGraw released his debut album Tim McGraw, which was commercially unsuccessful and did not sell well.

This is his only studio album not to achieve a music recording sales certification or to enter the Top Country Albums charts.

Three more singles were released from Tim McGraw: "Welcome to the Club", "Memory Lane", and "Two Steppin' Mind".

10 of those albums have reached number one on the Top Country Albums charts, with his 1994 breakthrough album Not a Moment Too Soon being the top country album of 1994.

In total, McGraw's albums have produced 65 singles, 25 of which have reached number one on the Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts.

He has been married to singer Faith Hill since 1996 and is the son of former MLB pitcher Tug McGraw.

Samuel Timothy McGraw was born in Delhi, Louisiana, the only child of Elizabeth "Betty" Ann D'Agostino, a waitress from Jacksonville, Florida, and Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr., a pitcher for the minor league Jacksonville Suns and future star pitcher for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies.

Three of these singles – "It's Your Love", "Just to See You Smile", and "Live Like You Were Dying" – were respectively the top country songs of 1997, 1998, and 2004 according to Billboard Year-End.

He has also won three Grammy Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and three People's Choice Awards.

His Soul2Soul II Tour, which was done in partnership with his wife, Faith Hill, is one of the highest-grossing tours in country music history, and one of the top five among all genres of music.

He has sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

In a 2001 retrospective on McGraw's career in Billboard, a former program director for Nashville station WSM-FM said that he added the song to the station's playlist because it showed "undeniable promise", while another former program director at WXTU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recalled that McGraw's debut single was "terrible" but that he booked the singer to make an appearance at the station due to his father's fame.

After that time, the two formed a relationship and remained close until the former baseball star died in 2004.

As a child, McGraw played competitive sports, including baseball, even before the knowledge of who his father was and his professional baseball career.

McGraw was also a member of the FFA in high school.

Following high school graduation, he attended Northeast Louisiana University on a baseball scholarship, where he was a pre-law major and pledged as a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

A knee injury sustained while playing baseball for the college prevented him from pursuing a professional career in sports.

While in college, McGraw learned to play guitar and would frequently perform and sing for money.

He has claimed his roommates often hid the guitar because he was so bad.

McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side, Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, Tomorrowland, Four Christmases, and The Shack as well as lead roles in Flicka (2006), Country Strong (2010), and 1883 (2021).

He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats.