Alan Jackson Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the 1994 Country Music Association song of the year award for "Chattahoochee․"
• Joined Glen Campbell's songwriting company in 1986 after his wife, Denise, met the country music legend at an airport and asked him for advice about her husband's career
• Started out working in the mailroom of The Nashville Network
• Quote: "[on his 9/11 ballad "Where Were You"] "Everybody wanted to put me up on a pedestal after that․ A lot of people were emotionally affected by that song․ But I'm still playing the same old kind of honky tonk songs I played 20 years ago in the bars․""
• Quote: "Most of my initial hunger probably came just because I grew up with nothing․ It was either just be a working man and get by, or take a chance on the music business․"
• Country music singer-songwriter whose hit songs include "Remember When" and "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)․"
• In 2006, he released a gospel music album titled "Precious Memories," which was recorded as a gift for his mother
• In 1991, he was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry
• Was the first music artist signed to the Arista Nashville record company