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Alan Jackson born on October 17, 1958 is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the a single of the best-selling nation musicians of the 1990s and has sold over 40 million albums with 30 quantity 1 hits.

Jackson is originally from Newnan, Georgia. He previously worked in The Nashville Network's mailroom. Jackson's wife Denise got him connected to Glen Campbell, who assisted him jumpstart his profession.

His very first album, 1990's Right here in the Genuine Planet, was a key hit, as was his second (1991) album, Don't Rock the Jukebox. His 1992 release, A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'Bout Adore) was a smash achievement, spawning 5 significant singles with "Chattahoochee" getting the most enduring and successful. After a couple of far more hit albums, Jackson once again rocketed to fame with "Where Had been You (When the Globe Stopped Turning)," a song about the September 11, 2001 attacks, which became a hit single and briefly propelled him into the mainstream spotlight the song was even the subject of parody on the well-liked animated series South Park, in the episode "A Ladder To Heaven".

Even though Jackson has been characterized as a "hat act", his influences go deep into the roots of country music and his songs have been recorded by some of the greats like Charley Pride, who recorded "Right here In The Real Globe". He has sung with George Jones on the award-winning "I Never Require Your Rockin' Chair" and "A Very good Year for the Roses." His sense of humor comes through in "Gone Nation" with the satirical description of the wannabes who cynically jumped on the nation music bandwagon in the 1990s: "Everybody's gone nation/Yeah we've gone nation/The whole world's gone nation." He has been credited for popularizing a Neotraditional Country sound.

Alan's band is named the Stray Horns.

Some of Alan Jackson Albums are :

Drive (2002)

Let It Be Christmas (2002)

Greatest Hits Volume II And Some Other Stuff (2003)

What I Do (2004)

Valuable Memories (2006)

and many much more

He has received many awards like :

Grammy sward for Very best Nation Song "Where Had been You (When The Globe Stopped Turning)" 2002

Entertainer of the Year 1995

All time winner: Single of the Year 2005

Album of the Year, Common Threads: The Songs of the Eagles 1994

and several far more