"William "Billy" Ray Cyrus (born August 25, 1961) is an American country music singer, songwriter and actor, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. He has released eleven studio albums since 1992, released 38 singles, best known for his Number One single "Achy Breaky Heart", that became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia and the 1992's best selling single in the same country.Thanks to the video of this hit, there was the explosion of the linedance into the mainstream, becoming a worldwide craze.
Cyrus, a multi-platinum selling recording artist, has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the Billboard Country Songs chart. His most successful album to date is the debut of Some Gave All, which has been certified 9× Multi-Platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at Number One on the Billboard 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era.
From 2001 to 2004, Cyrus starred in the television show Doc. The show was about a country doctor who moved from Montana to New York City.
In late 2005, he began to co-star in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana with his daughter Miley Cyrus. The show is currently in its fourth season.
In 2010, it was announced that he and his son Trace Cyrus would take part in a new Syfy reality series called UFO: Unbelievably Freakin' Obvious.
“BROTHER CLYDE”
To understand the music of Billy Ray Cyrus now, you have to understand his music then. His boyhood home rang out with Gospel, country and bluegrass. Then, along came Z.Z. Top, Ted Nugent, Foghat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and every other bad-ass band to pass through eastern Kentucky in the 70s, and that was that.
A rock ‘n’ roll hellion was born. No matter how many country or Gospel chart-toppers he had, he never lost his passion for rock. With the self titled album “Brother Clyde”, the Fontana Records debut CD from his new band, Cyrus finally lets it rip. "I always loved rock ‘n’ roll," Cyrus says. "That was a heavy part of what I was as a young juvenile delinquent.
I tried from my first album to rock like any other Southern rock band." Fate – and country music immortality – intervened, but for “Brother Clyde”, he followed an oh-so-rock-and-roll dictum: No rules. No limits. No preconceptions. Cyrus not only produced the album, he co-wrote most of the songs, several with Morris Joseph Tancredi, a musician he met under unlikely of circumstances.
Tancredi was his driver in Vancouver, B.C., during production of the 2009 film, "Christmas in Canaan." Recalls Cyrus, "This kid asks me what I’m doing now musically. I played him the firstsong I had written for Brother Clyde, " You Better Run ...or Your Gonna Crawl", and he says, ‘I didn’t know you did that. That’s straight up alternative rock.’ Then he said, ‘I have some stuff of my own you gotta hear."
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17.05.2011