John Michael Montgomery

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About John Michael Montgomery

Country singer John Michael Montgomery began performing with his parents at age five and later joined a band with his brother and a friend, who would go on to form the duo Montgomery Gentry. ∙ “I Love the Way You Love Me,” from his 1992 debut, Life’s a Dance, won Song of the Year and earned him Top New Male Vocalist honors at the American Country Music Awards. ∙ In 1994, the crossover smash (and popular wedding song) “I Swear” topped Billboard’s Year-End Country chart, and it earned the R&B group All-4-One a Grammy Award the following year. ∙ Montgomery’s self-titled 1995 album went quadruple-Platinum with the help of “I Can Love You Like That,” a chart-topping romantic ballad that also landed All-4-One in the Top 10. ∙ He swapped pop balladry for a return to his country roots in 2002, earning a No. 1 hit with “The Little Girl,” a tear-jerker duet with bluegrass artist Alison Krauss. ∙ Proving the staying power of the family business, his son, Walker Montgomery, went viral in 2017 with the single “Simple Town.”

HOMETOWN
Danville, KY, United States
BORN
January 20, 1965
GENRE
Country
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