The golden era of country music was already up and running when Randy Travis was born in 1959, and many thought it had already peaked. They reckoned without the success that Travis would have in the years to come. The North Carolina musician was raised on the sounds of Hank Williams, Gene Autry and others, and they inspired him to pick up the guitar and see what he was capable of himself. He'd mastered the instrument by the time he was ten years old.
Travis took the hard route to make it to the top, spending years performing in country bars within his home state before finally doing what all aspiring country singers do in the end - packing his bags, and heading off to Nashville! With hits like 'Promises,' he went on to become one of the very best ever to do it within the genre.