Country music star Granger Smith leaving industry for ministry: 'I just want to glorify God'

Dolly Parton is, without a doubt, one of the most iconic country stars of all time. With hits like "Jolene," "My Tennessee Mountain Home" and "I Will Always Love You," she has cemented her spot in country music history, and Parton talked to Fox News Digital about what the genre means to her. "There'll always be country music," Parton said, "and there'll always be a few artists that are still influenced by the old-time Hank Williams type, all the Merle Haggards and all the, you know, the old country and even back farther, but certainly will say Hank Williams and all those wonderful songs he wrote.

Yeehaw! The stars have dusted off their cowboy hats and boots in time for another Stagecoach Festival.

Former X-factor star Andy Brown has revealed his surprising new career after the 35 year old singer turned his back on a life of showbiz and fame. Andy received widespread acclaim while performing with the boyband Lawson in 2009, with the quartet going on to open for a variety of household names on tour, including The Wanted , Will Young and Avril Lavigne, before finding solo success in 2012.

Has it really been seven years since the iconic Manchester Roadhouse closed its doors for good?

Jason Aldean, Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert and Jo Dee Messina are among the performers set for the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards, producers announced today.

Granger Smith didn’t take his big life change lightly.

Granger Smith was thinking about retiring from music for months before his recent announcement.

Maren Morris has some choice words for Tucker Carlson. The country music star poked fun at the former Fox News host's firing on Monday, after Carlson famously dubbed her a "lunatic country music person" last year. «Happy Monday, MotherTucker,» Morris wrote on her Instagram story, reposting an old image of her face along with a chyron from  reading «Lunatic Country Music Person.» Morris previously shared the screengrab as her «new profile pic» back in September, amid her online feud with Brittany Aldean.

While no footage was offered, Sony did take time in the CinemaCon presentation to tease the next installment in the “Bad Boys” franchise. Sony’s opening presentation featured Will Smith and Martin Lawrence stumbling through an intro with confusion about whether they were happy or unhappy not to be at CinemaCon. The film is four weeks into shooting, and the brief joke pre-taped bit concluded with the stars introducing Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group President Josh Greenstein who came to the stage and bragged about 23 theatrical releases for the coming year, emphasizing a wide variety of movies beyond just conventional blockbusters.

Star Wars.Speaking recently to Variety, the Oscar-winning actor said he was offered “so much money” to play the iconic smuggler, but passed up the opportunity after failing to understand the script.“Well, I turned down Star Wars. When I first came up, I was the new kid on the block, you know what happens when you first become famous. It’s like, ‘Give it to Al.’ They’d give me Queen Elizabeth to play,” said Pacino.“They gave me a script called Star Wars.

Variety reports that legendary actor Al Pacino had all sorts of stories to share at a talk he did at the 92nd Street Y in NYC this week. Among them: Pacino turned down the role of Han Solo in “Star Wars,” despite “so much money” being offered him.

“Star Wars” could have been a whole lot different.

Plans to build 30 new affordable homes on a much-loved field in the heart of an estate are dividing a community. The proposals would see rental housing ‘for local people’ built off Borrowdale Road, in Langley, Middleton. The land is known locally as ‘The Ponderosa’ - also an old colloquial name for Langley itself.

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Tim McGraw, the country music star whose acting career has hit a new gear lately with roles in Yellowstone and prequel 1883, is launching his own media company with backing from Skydance Media.

Christine Brown is getting her happily ever after!

A new calling. Granger Smith announced that his upcoming Like a River tour will be his last before he transitions to ministry.

Granger Smith is going down a new road.On Tuesday, the country music superstar — whose 3-year-old son, River, died in a drowning accident in 2019 — announced that he is leaving the music business to pursue ministry. «This message is so difficult to post. The words for this caption are so hard to find. Not because I don’t believe in the truth of them, but because this marks the end of the longest era in my life! Touring…24 years of it,» he wrote on Instagram. «This summer will be my last tour.

Granger Smith has found a new calling.

Maisie Smith has reportedly landed first major film role, as she's said to have been cast in key role in the upcoming gangster film Bermondsey Tales: Fall Of The Roman Empire, alongside a handful of famous faces.The former EastEnders actress, 21, has been acting since a young age and first appeared in the long-running BBC soap as Tiffany Butcher back in 2008, when she was just six years old. Maisie went on to appear in 678 episodes of the popular soap. Prior to joining to cast of EastEnders, she made her film debut as a very young Elizabeth I in 2008’s The Other Boleyn Girl.