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Alan Jackson
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- Works
- 57
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- New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature
- Growing Bob
- Strategies for Avoiding Foreclosure
- Portable Floating Houseboat Plans
- Lustful Desires Awakened from the Deepest Part of My Soul
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Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country singer and songwriter. He is known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own songs. Jackson has recorded 16 studio albums, three greatest hits albums, two Christmas albums, two gospel albums and several compilations. Jackson has sold over 80 million records, with 66 titles on…
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- Opry 100: A Live Celebration — Self - Performer2025
- Coal Miner's Daughter: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Loretta Lynn — Self2022
- Alan Jackson: Small Town Southern Man — Self2018
- CMA Country Christmas 2017 — Self - Performer2017
- Alan Jackson: Keepin' It Country — Singer2016
- CMA Music Festival - Country's Night to Rock 2015 — Self2015
- George Strait: The Cowboy Rides Away — Himself2014
- Country at the BBC — Self2011
- George Jones & Friends 50th Anniversary Tribute Concert — Self2007
- CMT Invitation Only — Self2007
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958
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Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 14 studio albums, three Greatest Hits albums, two Christmas albums, one Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista Nashville label. More than 50 of his singles have appeared on Billboard's list of the "Top 30 Country Songs". Of Jackson's entries, 35 were number-one hits, with 50 in
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Key facts
- Born
- Alan Eugene Jackson , ( 1958-10-17 ) October 17, 1958 (age 67) , Newnan, Georgia , U.S.
- Genres
- Neotraditional Country bluegrass gospel
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar
- Years active
- 1987–present
- Labels
- Arista Nashville EMI Nashville Alan's Country Records
- Spouse
- Denise Jackson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1979 )
- Website
- alanjackson .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jackson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Newnan
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- bluegrass music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- EMI
- Official website
- www.alanjackson.com
- Image
- Alan Jackson 1.jpg
- Work location
- Nashville
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- date of birth
- 1958-10-17
- Commons category
- Alan Jackson
- nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance
- name in native language
- Alan Jackson
- birth name
- Alan Eugene Jackson
- ethnic group
- English Americans
- start of work period
- 1983-00-00
- social media followers
- 3020000
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
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Encyclopedic overview
Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for performing a style widely regarded as "neotraditional country", as well as writing many of his own songs. Jackson has recorded 21 studio albums, including two Christmas albums, and two gospel albums, as well as three greatest-hits albums.
Jackson is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide, with 44 million sold in the United States alone. He has had 66 songs appear on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart; of the 66 titles, and six featured singles, 38 have reached the top five and 35 have claimed the number one spot. Out of 15 titles to reach the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, nine have been certified multi-platinum. He is the recipient of two Grammy Awards, 16 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, 17 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards, and nominee of multiple other awards. He is a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2001. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017 by Loretta Lynn and into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018.
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