William "Billy" Ray Cyrus was born on August 25, 1961. He is an American country music singer, songwriter and a frequent actor. Cyrus was also known to help make country music a worldwide outbreak and popular. He released eleven studio albums and has released 38 singles. Cyrus, a multi-platinum selling recording artist, has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the Billboard Country Songs chart which was clearly a record. Cyrus was born in Flatwoods, Kentucky in 1961. He grew up around a christian community and was also inspired by bluegrass and gospel music mixed together. Billy Ray's father was a politician while his grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. His father, a right-handed man, played guitar, but Billy Ray was left-handed. He attempted to play his father's guitar, but could never learn because of his dexterity of his left hand . Cyrus attended Georgetown College on a baseball scholarship before actually taking a full turn on towards music. During the 1980s, Cyrus played in a band called, Sly Dog before getting a contract and a record deal with the Mercury Nashville Records.
Acting Career
Cyrus starred in the 1999 film "Radical Jack". Cyrus' television appearances and credits include The Nanny, Diagnosis Murder, The Next Wave, Love Boat and TNN’s 18 Wheels Of Justice. Cyrus has also been the subject of many television specials that detail his rise to fame and his career. On the late year of 2005, Cyrus and his daughter Miley Cyrus began starring in the Disney Channel original television series, Hannah Montana, with Miley Cyrus as the main character and Cyrus, her father co-starring with her. This was probably where Billy Ray Cyrus received most of his fame for his young eager fans. Cyrus also inspires his young fans and encourages them by making frequent guest appearances in concerts, and often "nation-wide kids" meetings in famous television broadcast stations such as ABC, and Nickelodeon.In March 2007, Cyrus also canonized himself by joining several other celebrities to take part the famous dancing entertainment television broadcast show, Dancing with the Stars. He and his dance partner Karina Smirnoff, were eliminated in the eighth week of the competition, after having also placed sadly in the "bottom two". Cyrus also starred in Jackie Chan's movie The Spy Next Door which really had his young children and very "young" adults to see him active in acting and yet still being the old funny "Billy Ray Cyrus".
Cyrus' Christianity and Marriage
Although Cyrus was grown in a friendly Christian environment, he is not necessarily known to be the sharpest Christian celebrity as we know. Because of his passion for country music, he later on "forgot" about Christianity, but still he released albums such as, Time Flies and The Other Side, which were both released in the year 2003. Cyrus was known to almost have two failed marriages, but later on it turned out that he wasn't through with the divorce and the couple were still together. His first wife, was just a come and go wife, and Cyrus later on married Leticia "Tish" Cyrus, also known as Finley. Together they had three children: daughters Miley Ray (born Destiny Hope in 1992) and Noah Lindsey (born 2000), and son Braison Chance (born 1994). He also has two adopted stepchildren from Finley's previous marriage, Trace (born 1989), now a singer/guitarist for the hit-band Metro Station, and Brandi (born 1987), as well as a son, Christopher Cody (born 1992). Altogether Cyrus has 6 children, but he was known to file a divorce with Finely because of issues within the family. However, on March 11, 2011 it was decided that the family was still together.
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