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Billy Ray Cyrus Biography
Billy Ray Cyrus will forever be known for the catchy,
lightweight single Achy, Breaky Heart, which became a line-dancing
anthem upon its 1992 release. Achy, Breaky Heart made Cyrus famous,
but it also proved to be his undoing. No matter how he tried, he
couldn't escape the song, nor could he replicate the success. Cyrus'
music was never particularly innovative -- it owed as much to the
country-rock of the Eagles as it did to the new traditionalism of
George Strait and the new country of Clint Black and Garth Brooks --
but his musical worth became irrelevant in the wake of the success of
Achy, Breaky Heart and its accompanying album, Some Gave All. The
album became a crossover success after the single became a hit,
spending 17 weeks on the top of the album charts. Part of Cyrus'
success was due to his handsome, hunky good looks, and part of it was
due to the catchiness of Achy, Breaky Heart. However, both his good
looks and the single were soon forgotten, and just two years after Some
Gave All ruled the charts, Cyrus virtually disappeared from both the
pop and country charts and became part of the long history one-hit
wonders.
Enamored of baseball, Cyrus intended to become another Johnny Bench as
he grew up in Flatlands, KY. While attending Georgetown College on a
baseball scholarship, he bought a guitar and decided immediately that
athletics wasn't the proper direction for his life. Instead, he formed
a band called Sly Dog with his brother and gave himself a ten-month
deadline for finding a place to play. One week prior to that cutoff
date, the group went to work as the house band for a club in Ironton,
OH, where they remained for two years. When a 1984 fire destroyed the
bar -- and Cyrus' equipment -- he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his
career. Eventually, he decided to return to Kentucky and commuted
regularly from there to Nashville in search of a record deal. Grand Ole
Opry star Del Reeves got Mercury Records to take a look, and division
head Harold Shedd signed him in the summer of 1990. When his first
album came out in mid-1992, Cyrus -- with his good looks, sculpted
body, and the infectious Achy, Breaky Heart -- became an instant
groundbreaking sensation. Spending five weeks at the top of the country
charts, Achy, Breaky Heart made his debut album, Some Gave All, a
blockbuster success. By the time it fell off the charts, it had sold
over nine million copies and spent 17 weeks on the top of the pop
charts.
Despite his attempts, Cyrus wasn't able to replicate the success of
Some Gave All. He quickly followed the album with It Won't Be the Last
in the summer of 1993. Initially, the album sold well, entering the pop
charts at number three, but it fell far short of expectations by only
reaching platinum status. Storm in the Heartland, delivered in the fall
of 1994, managed to go gold, even though it was ignored by country
radio. However, by the time it finished its chart run, Cyrus had
slipped from the public's eye. When he returned with the harder-edged,
introspective Trail of Tears in 1996, his audience had virtually
disappeared -- the album only spent four weeks on the charts and didn't
even go gold. Shot Full of Love followed in 1998 and Southern Rain was
issued two years later. In March 2001, Cyrus hit TV screens in the role
of a country doctor moved to Manhattan in the sitcom Doc. He returned
to music world with 2003's Time Flies and the gospel-inspired Other
Side, and in 2006, the same year Cyrus appeared on The Disney Channel's
Hannah Montana, starring his real-life daughter Miley, Wanna Be Your
Joe came out. Riding on the wave of Hannah Montana's popularity, Cyrus
released his tenth studio album in 2007, Home at Last on the Disney
label. ~ Tom Roland & Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine