About: George Strait   Goto Sponge  NotDistinct  Permalink

An Entity of Type : wsb:Artist_Person, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
type
label
  • George Strait
sameAs
name
  • George Strait
gender
  • Male
dbo:genre
dbo:associatedMusicalArtist
  • Ace_in_the_Hole_Band
  • Alan_Jackson
  • Dean_Dillon
  • Eric_Church
  • Kenny_Chesney
  • »more»
subject
  • Living people
  • MCA Records artists
  • American country singer-songwriters
  • American country singers
  • Grammy Award winners
  • »more»
abstract
  • George Strait was born on May 18, 1952, in Poteet, Texas and is an american country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer. Father of [a3924023].
dbo:abstract
  • George Harvey Strait (born May 18, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer known as the %22King of Country%22 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.Strait's success began when his first single %22Unwound%22 was a hit in 1981. During the 1980s, seven of his albums reached number one on the country charts. In the 2000s, Strait was named Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music, was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy award for the album Troubadour. Strait was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 2013, and ACM Entertainer of the Year in 1990 and 2014. He has been nominated for more CMA and ACM awards and has more wins in both categories than any other artist. In 2009, he broke Conway Twitty's previous record for the most number-one hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart when his 44 number one singles surpassed Twitty's 40. Counting all music charts, Strait has amassed a total of 60 number-one hits, breaking a record also previously set by Twitty, and giving him more number one songs than any other artist in any genre of music.Strait has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. His certifications from the RIAA include 13 multi-platinum, 33 platinum, and 38 gold albums. His best-selling album is Pure Country (1992), which sold 6 million (6× platinum). His highest certified album is Strait Out of the Box (1995), which sold 2 million copies (8× Platinum due to being a box set with four CDs). According to the RIAA, Strait is the 12th best-selling album recording artist in the United States overall.
discogs
homepage
musicbrainz
Musicbrainz GUID
  • 5ab2cf34-517e-48eb-b3a5-34e1cbcd600a
universally unique identifier
  • 56d8350053a7ddfc01f957b4
wikipedia
myspace
schema:birthDate
  • 1952-05-18
schema:members
wsb:BBC_page
wsb:allMusic_page
wsb:deezer_artist_id
  • 5235
wsb:deezer_fans
wsb:deezer_page
wsb:discogs_id
  • 829795
wsb:facebook_page
wsb:iTunes_page
wsb:location
wsb:name_without_accent
  • George Strait
wsb:record_label
  • MCA Records
wsb:spotify_page
wsb:twitter_page
wsb:wikia_page
wsb:wikidata_page
wsb:youTube_page
schema:genre
  • Country
is mo:performer of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.13.91 as of Mar 24 2020


Alternative Linked Data Documents: Sponger | ODE     Content Formats:       RDF       ODATA       Microdata      About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data]
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3229 as of Jul 10 2020, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Single-Server Edition (94 GB total memory)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software