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Jul 7, 2023 · Lee Greenwood's Wife, Kimberly Payne, Was Once Miss Tennessee USA. Kimberly graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Communications. She won the Junior Miss Tennessee pageant in 1985 as a teen before earning the Miss Tennessee USA crown in 1989.
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- Anything Specific That Comes to Mind?
- Were There Inspiring Reactions to It?
- Any Other Songs You’Re Proud of That May Have Been Overshadowed by Its Success?
- You’Ve Sang at A Few Presidential Inaugurations. How Did That Feel?
- And You Were Just Appointed to The John F. Kennedy Center Board of Trustees!
- Have You Worked with Any Legends?
- Did Anything in Your Childhood Put You on Your Path?
- How Did Your Parents’ Split Affect You?
It’s going to cover all of the hits we had in country music. It will also include, as we go on during the year, the release of a new CD with original songs in 2020. We’re just about finished with that project.
I hadn’t traveled much until I left home at 16 and went to Nevada. I was exposed to so many different people from all over the world. After I moved to Nashville in 1979, I wanted to write a song that identified my entire country with who I was.
The first line, “If tomorrow all the things were gone I worked for all my life,” was about my grandparents and their farm, where I was raised in Sacramento, Calif. We were sharecroppers. Farming got to be less profitable, and as I left home they were moving from farming to renting apartments. And not to forget the military, of course, because my fa...
You can’t help but be moved by a soldier that’s lost two legs who told you the reason they joined the Army was because they heard my song, or singing it off an aircraft carrier for so many in the military. Then you do a July 4th show where the citizens are waving flags and lights as you sing a tribute to the country.
While touring with Kenny Rogers, I wrote a hit song for him called “A Love Song.” Kenny told me, “Well, you made it a hit.”
I sang at the Lincoln Memorial for George Bush and Donald Trump, and at parties at several others. When the Reagan Library opened [in 1988], sitting behind me while I was singing were Nixon, Carter, Ford, Bush, Reagan, their wives and Lady Bird Johnson. And recently at a Texas A&M event that raised money for hurricane relief, I sang for Obama, Clin...
I was appointed to the National Council on the Arts by Bush 43, so to be appointed as a trustee to the Kennedy Center by the president was fantastic.
In 1988 we did our fifth or sixth USO Tour with Bob Hope — eight shows around the world in eight days. That was tremendous.
My parents divorced when I was a year old because the war tore them apart. So I was raised by my grandparents, and my grandmother always let me play the piano in the corner of our trailer. My mother had several marriages — I didn’t see her much — and didn’t know my father until I was 14 or 15. So I had two driving forces: baseball and music. I play...
I didn’t know until I was 7 or 8 that they weren’t together. When I was maybe 12 I started asking where he was. They finally allowed me to see him when I was 13, and we had a good relationship until he died. I absolutely loved Louis D’Antonoli, my stepfather for my last years growing up. He proudly wore my tour jacket.
May 19, 2023 · On April 11, 1992, Lee Greenwood married Kimberly Payne, who had recently held the title of Miss Tennessee. This married couple is the happy guardian of two young men named Dalton and Parker Greenwood.
He's been married to former Miss Tennessee USA, Kimberly Payne, for 17 years. Living happily ever after in the fishbowl world of the music business can be a challenge, but Lee,...
Jul 15, 2022 · Kimberly Payne. Lee Greenwood and his wife Kimberly, a former Miss Tennessee, fell in love on his 1989 USO/DOD tour. After their 1992 wedding in Nashville, the two welcomed their two kids, Dalton and Parker.
- 80 years (as of 2022)
- Melvin Lee Greenwood
- October 27, 1942
Jun 14, 2023 · Kimberly Payne is the second wife of country singer Lee Greenwood, whom he married in 1992. They have two sons, Dalton and Parker, who have musical talent and graduated from college.
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Mar 31, 2020 · Lee Greenwood, the singer of 'God Bless the U.S.A.', married Kimberly Payne, the former Miss Tennessee, in 1992. They live in Tennessee and have a blissful marriage of 27 years.
