Hometown Madison - March & April 2016
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On December 19th, the Mississippi<br />
Country Music Trail unveiled a trail<br />
marker honoring Faith Hill at the<br />
corner of Main and Mangum<br />
Streets in Star, Mississippi.<br />
As a young girl growing up in Star, Faith<br />
found her passion for music and singing and<br />
followed her heart to Nashville at the young age<br />
of 19. She has now been a force of nature in the<br />
entertainment industry for over two decades,<br />
having achieved unprecedented success in the<br />
worlds of country and pop music as one of the<br />
top-selling and most-awarded female artists of<br />
all time. Over the course of her career, she has<br />
had fourteen #1 singles and multiple albums<br />
topping both the Billboard Top 100 and<br />
Country charts, with six multi- platinum studio<br />
albums and selling more than 30 million albums<br />
worldwide. She’s won five Grammy Awards,<br />
twelve ACM Awards, four Billboard Music<br />
Awards, four American<br />
Music Awards, four<br />
People’s Choice Awards<br />
and three CMA Awards.<br />
We had the chance<br />
to ask Faith, and her<br />
close-knit family, a few<br />
questions and got a<br />
peek of what it was<br />
like for her growing<br />
up in Star.<br />
What is your favorite memory of growing up<br />
in Star, Mississippi?<br />
One of my fondest memories of growing up in Star was the<br />
winter that Highway 49 froze over completely from a big<br />
northeastern storm that fell down into the deep south in<br />
the early ‘80s. Highway 49 and everything else was closed.<br />
This is the day that Gaye McCann, now Gaye Knight, and<br />
I would become best friends. We played all day on the<br />
highway…sliding, falling, running, laughing, sliding, falling,<br />
and laughing again and again.<br />
What is the one thing you miss the most about<br />
living in a small town?<br />
Life in a small town is something everyone should have the<br />
opportunity to experience at least once in a lifetime. Dreams<br />
seem bigger when you come from a small town; although,<br />
somehow they seem more obtainable because either you have<br />
the support of friends and family, which gives you strength to<br />
work hard and be successful or you have so much drive to get<br />
out of the small town that it motivates you to work even harder.<br />
I miss my family and I miss knowing every road and where<br />
each one leads. There is power in that knowledge; the power<br />
of knowing where you are going, as well as the power that<br />
comes from the drive to get out of something so familiar and<br />
discover what the world has to offer.<br />
Is there a favorite tradition that you and your<br />
family had growing up that has been carried<br />
over to your family?<br />
There are many things that I have<br />
carried over to my family. Lots of<br />
traditions–and most all of them are<br />
related to food and faith. My<br />
parents had the most incredible<br />
vegetable garden. My brothers<br />
and I had the chore of weeding,<br />
shelling peas, butter beans–whatever<br />
was required. I absolutely<br />
hated it when I was growing up<br />
and usually found an excuse to<br />
not always be home when I<br />
needed to help.<br />
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