Name	Tracy Lawrence
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	27 January 1968
Place of Birth	Atlanta, Texas, United States
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Tracy Lawrence was born in Atlanta, Texas and raised in Foreman, Arkansas. He played in his first band at the age of sixteen and later attended Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Arkansas, where he was a member of the Sigma Pi Fraternity. In 1990 Lawrence left Arkansas for Nashville, Tennessee where he hoped to find success as a recording artist.

Lawrence worked as an ironworker and in phone sales while he tried to break into the music business. He began participating in talent shows and earned enough money to live on. In 1991 he had a gig at the Bluebird Cafe and met Wayne Edwards who became his manager.

With Edwards assistance, Lawrence signed with Atlantic Records and released his first album Sticks and Stones. On May 31, 1991 Lawrence walked his former girlfriend to the door of her hotel room and was confronted by three armed men. The men robbed them and attempted to force Lawrence and his friend into her motel room. Lawrence resisted and was shot four times, allowing his friend to escape. Two of the wounds were major and necessitated surgery. One of the bullets remains embedded in Lawrence's pelvis.

Lawrence's debut album shot up the charts to number one and spawned several Top 10 singles. Lawrence's second album Alibis went Platinum and generated four straight Number One singles.

Lawrence was Billboard's Top New Male Vocalist in 1992 and received the Academy of Country Music's Best New Artist and Top New Male Vocalist in 1993.

In 1994 Lawrence released his third album, I See It Now which also went Platinum. Lawrence released a Live album in 1995 and another studio album entitled Time Marches On in 1996. In 1997, Lawrence released his Coast Is Clear album which he co-produced. Tracy also sang harmony on Trace Adkins' 1997 single, "Every Light in the House Is On."

In March 1997, Lawrence married a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. By September of that year, they'd separated. By December she'd filed charges against him in Nevada for allegedly choking her with her cheerleader pantyhose, throwing her into a wall, and threatening to kill her. Lawrence, who admitted to shoving his wife, was eventually convicted of misdemeanor battery and suspended by his record label until he got "his personal matters straight." He was ordered to pay a $500 fine to a women's shelter in Las Vegas.

By the late 1990's, Lawrence's career was at a standstill with many of his singles starting to chart in the lower regions of the country charts.