ABOUT Blake Shelton
Blake Shelton is a singer of America who also works as songwriter and television personality best in country and bro-country genre. His career started up in 2001 under Giant Records but later shifted to Warner Bros.
Records making a hit start with the song “Austin” that reached on top of Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks. He debuted with his first album “Blake Shelton” in 2001 followed by 10 more albums such as
• “The Dreamer” in 2003
• “Blake Shelton’s Barn & Grill” in 2004
• “Pure BS” in 2007
• “Startin’ Fires” in 2008
• “Red River Blue” in 2011
• “Cheers, It’s Christmas” in 2012
• “Based on a True Story” in 2013
• “Bring Back the Sunshine” in 2014
• “If I’m Honest” in 2016
From the above-given albums, all were a commercial success with “Red River Blue” being gold-certified and “Cheer’s It’s Christmas” ranking #1 and #2 on Top Holiday and Top Country Albums charts. Some of his smash hits singles from albums include: -
• The Baby (Reached no.1 on the country chart)
• When Somebody Knows You That Well (ranked #37)
• Nobody but Me (ranked #10)
• Don’t Make Me (among top 20 songs)
• The More I Drink
• Honey Bee (#1 on Hot Country Songs chart)
• Drink on It
• Came Here To Forget
• Friends
He was also raised to fame working on TV with 2011 “The Voice” playing the role of coach and winning 4 times in shows history.
He even made his appearance in 2015 “The Ridiculous 6” taking TV credits as Wyatt Erp and has hosted 2016 “Kid’s Choice Awards”.
EARLY LIFE
A 40-year-old Blake was born on 18th June 1976 in Ada Oklahoma, the United States in the family of Dorothy and Richard Shelton. He was raised with his older brother Richie who died at the age of 24 in an automobile accident.
He started singing at a young age and wrote his first song at being 15. He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee for a singing career.
TRIVIA
He joined YouTube on 25th September 2006 having gained around 1,172,664 subscribers and 553,942,955 views on his channel.
PERSONAL LIFE
He got married to Kaynette Gern in 2003 but soon divorced in 2006. He moved on in another marriage with Miranda Lambert in 2011 ending up in 2015 and starting a new relation with partner Gwen Stefani.
ACHIEVEMENTS
He has received the nomination in 2016 Grammy Awards under Best Country Duo/Group Performance category for the song “Lonely Tonight” and has also won the 2016 People’s Choice Awards under Favourite Male Country Artist category.
ASSOCIATED WITH
He was featured in two films of his till date career one is 2015 “Pitch Perfect 2” as the Voice Judge #1 and other 2016 “The Angry Birds Movie” as Earl witnessing his voice.
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Shelton
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/the-voice-blake-shelton-gwen-stefani-cry-speech
https://www.youtube.com/blakeshelton