Enjoy this guide to 9 country music stars married to each other forming a set of power country music couples...learn more about each couple here...
Country Music Stars married to each other has been a common occurrence over time. Enjoy this listing of Country Music artists that married fellow country music artists. Many relationships lasted and some did not find their soul mate the first time around.
Learn more about each power country music couple below.
Trisha Yearwood knew there was chemistry the very first time she ever sang with future husband Garth Brooks. “It felt like we’d sung together forever”, she has said about the first duet. Though married to his first wife at the time, Brooks helped Yearwood land her first record deal. In 1991 she hit it big with the hit song “She’s in Love with the Boy” and was the first female country music singer to sell 1 million copies of her debut album.
Brooks has always mixed both rock, pop and country influences in his music. In the 1990s he was one of the first country artists to crossover to the pop album charts when No Fences reached the #3 spot. A year later, Ropin’ The Wind topped the Billboard 200 albums charts, the first of 7 number one albums during the decade. As the 1990s closed out, Brooks took a huge gamble, creating alter ego Chris Gaines, a fictional Australian alternative rocker. The album In…the life of Chris Gaines was a blend of new wave and R&B music. Though panned by critics, the move showed Brooks’ willingness to reach for new heights and break out of familiar territory.
This same conviction could be said of his relationship with Yearwood. After many years of friendship, Brooks proposed to Yearwood on stage at Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace before 7,000 cheering fans in 2005. Brooks took a long hiatus from recording and touring to spend more time with his three daughters from his first marriage, but he has played a few live shows recently. Yearwood’s latest record Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love was released in 2007.
Brooks finished a three-and-a-half year long world tour with his wife, Trisha Yearwood. The power country music couple’s tour sold more 6.3 million tickets, making it the biggest North American tour in history and the biggest American tour in the world.
Arguably country music’s most visible couple, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw first played together in 1996 on their Spontaneous Combustion Tour, during which McGraw famously proposed to Hill. She accepted by writing “yes” on a mirror in his trailer while he was on stage performing.
McGraw began topping the charts in the mid 90’s, and by the end of the decade, as his 1999 album A Place in The Sun went triple platinum, he had taken advantage of Garth Brooks’ Chris Gaines miscalculation to become country music’s biggest male star.
In 2017/2018 Hill and McGraw toured together on the Soul2Soul Tour, which became the highest grossing country music tour of all time. McGraw had a starring role opposite Sandra Bullock in the movie The Blind Side, and appeared in the film Country Strong with Gwyneth Paltrow.
Chris Stapleton and Morgane Stapleton are usually mum when it comes to their personal lives and the names of their eldest son and daughter are still not public. Chris does not draw strength from his audience during a concert. Instead, the country singer pulls motivation from his gorgeous and wife, Morgane. Luckily for Chris, Morgane happens to be an incredibly talented singer-songwriter as well. “When you have nights when you don’t feel like you’ve got it in you vocally, you kind of look to [Morgane] and lean on her and it pulls something out in that,” Chris told Kix Brooks.
Marty Stuart married Connie Smith in 1997, and their union is a testament to their shared love of traditional country music. With decades of success between them, they often perform together and have become icons of the genre.
When you think of examples of true love, this pair instantly comes to mind. The musically gifted couple worked together professionally as country duo Joey + Rory and were married for 14 years before Joey passed away from cancer in March 2016. Throughout Joey‘s courageous battle, fans were able to witness the couple’s deep love and unbreakable bond through Rory‘s This Life I Live blog. In the aftermath of Joey’s death, Rory is faithfully doing his best to honor his late wife and continue her legacy while raising their 3-year-old daughter, Indy.
Joey has had a huge impact on individuals all over the world and her loss is still very much felt. Rory continues to inspire people as he continues his writing, singing, filming and raising of their family.
The life of June Carter Cash will always be deeply linked to that of her famous husband, Johnny Cash. Early in her career, June Carter Cash performed primarily with her mother and sisters until she married legendary country singer Johnny Cash.
In 2003, June Carter Cash passed away due to complications after undergoing heart surgery. Later that year, Johnny Cash also passed away.
Outlaw country music pioneer Waylon Jennings was married three times before finally getting it right with his fourth marriage to fellow artist Jessi Colter (birth name Miriam Johnson).
On May 19, 1979, the talented couple welcomed son and future musician, Waylon Albright “Shooter” Jennings into the world. Colter also had one daughter, Jennifer, from her previous marriage to rockabilly guitar legend Duane Eddy.
In the early 1980s, Colter and Jennings nearly called it quits due to his consuming addiction to cocaine and other forms of substance abuse. The icon claimed that his son Shooter was his main inspiration to quit permanently. The pair weathered the storm and remained together until Jennings’ death from diabetic complications on February 13, 2002.
“I was his fourth wife, and he had tried with these different women that didn’t really understand him,” Colter once told CMT. “I just loved him … I loved him! He really entertained me. He made me laugh. He made me feel loved. He inspired me.”
Clearly after a few tries, Waylon found the partner he needed to defeat his demons and flourish as an artist. On April 11, 2017, Jessi released a tell-all memoir titled “An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith That Brought Me Home”.
Country music star Clint Black and actress-singer Lisa Hartman Black’s attraction first sparked in 1990 when the starlet went backstage to meet the country singer after his New Year’s Eve concert in Houston, Texas. The Texas-raised couple quietly dated and got married in Katy, Texas in 1991.
Clint and Lisa have been together for over 33 years now— so what’s their secret? Oddly enough, the “King of the Cowboys” Roy Rogers gave Clint one sage piece of marriage advice: “Don’t ever go to bed angry.”
This husband-and-wife duo is the definition of a musical partnership. Together, they form the band Thompson Square, known for hits like “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not”. Their love story is woven into the fabric of their music.
Hillary Scott, one-third of Lady A, married drummer Chris Tyrrell in 2012. The couple often works together, with Chris stepping into the role of drummer for Lady A’s tours.