Blake Shelton
Blake Shelton
Blake Tollison Shelton is an American country music singer, songwriter and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin". The lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, "Austin" spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The gold-certified debut album also produced two more top 20 hits. Although the album was released on Giant Records Nashville, he was transferred to Warner Bros. Records Nashville after Giant closed in late 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth18 June 1976
CityAda, OK
CountryUnited States of America
My fans are the best; I love hanging with them.
People are scrambling to figure out how they can prolong the life of an album. But as long as the shelf space continues to shrink at retail, there's just no room for them anymore... which is fine with me! I would love to be the next person in country to just release digital singles, but I think we're probably a little ways from that.
My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.
I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.
I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.
I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.
I love getting the pontoon boat out, and I don't get to do it as much anymore. If I know in two weeks or a month from now I've got three days off, I can start planning for that stuff, getting out there with friends and family and relaxing, just floating around and hanging out.
I'd love to have a big old hug with Richard Simmons.
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.
I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.
Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.
I would not want to be Richard Simmons... right now or anytime. He seems like a nice guy, but if I had to dress like that? That would absolutely suck.
I think just knowing you're married and having that in the back of your mind all the time - it sounds official, but it doesn't really feel any different. We don't do anything differently than we did before.
I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.