George Strait

George Harvey Strait is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer known as the King of Country and one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He is known for his neotraditionalist country style, cowboy look, and being one of the first and main country artists to bring country music back to its roots and away from the pop country era in the 1980s.

George Harvey Strait was born on May 18, 1952, in Poteet, Texas, to John Byron Strait, Sr. , and Doris Couser . He grew up in nearby Pearsall, in Frio County, where his father was a junior high school mathematics teacher and the owner of a 2,000acre cattle ranch outside of Big Wells, Texas. The family worked at the ranch on the weekends and in the summers. When George was in the fourth grade, his father and mother were divorced, and his mother moved away with his sister, Pency. George and his brother John, Jr., or Buddy , were raised by their father.

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