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"American Soldier" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released in November 2003 as the second single from his album Shock'n Y'all. It became a number one hit on the Billboard U.S. Hot Country Songs chart, keeping the top spot for four weeks. Keith wrote the song with Chuck Cannon.
Toby Keith wrote this song in response to his father's death and the 9/11 attacks in 2001. At first, he was reluctant to record the song and decided to only play it live for military personnel. Later however, Marine Corps General James L. Jones convinced him to record it saying that it was his "duty as an American citizen to record the song."
Singer-songwriter earns renown for his devotion to the troops. Starting in 2002, Keith played 11 USO Tours spanning more than 285 events for nearly 256,000 troops and military families. The singer ...
Toby Keith Covel was born on July 8, 1961, in Clinton, Oklahoma, to Carolyn Joan (née Ross) and Hubert K. Covel Jr. [5] [6] [7] He has a sister and a brother. The family lived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, for a few years when Keith was in grade school, but moved to Moore, Oklahoma (a suburb of Oklahoma City), when he was still young.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Toby Keith’s songs accomplished, for some, what great art is intended to: They sustained people in challenging times, particularly U.S. service members and their families ...
Toby Keith died peacefully last night at age 62 after battling stomach cancer, according to his website and a tweet.Keith was diagnosed in the fall of 2021 and disclosed to the public in June 2022.
Following Keith's death on February 5, 2024, the single would re-enter the Hot Country Songs chart at number 15 on the chart week dated February 17, 2024, and was one of five Toby Keith songs to re-enter the chart that week. The single reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming his biggest solo hit on that chart at the time.
Toby Keith, the country singer who scored the genre’s most-played song of the ’90s with “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” died on Monday night of stomach cancer. He was 62. The news was ...