Clint Black
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Clint Black is a Katy, Texas-raised country legend born in Long Branch, New Jersey, who went from a decade of Houston nightclub gigs to becoming one of the cornerstone artists of the Class of '89 alongside Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson, writing every one of his 22 number-one singles, selling over 20 million records, earning a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, and receiving the 2025 BMI Icon Award for country music as one of the genre's most consistently authentic and self-sufficient singer-songwriters of the modern era.
Current Tour & Setlist
Black's "Back On The Blacktop Tour" is running through 2026 with confirmed dates including Gadsden, Alabama on June 25, Hiawassee, Georgia on June 26 with support from Bryce Leatherwood, Rohnert Park, California on July 11, Headwaters Country Jam in Cardwell, Montana on July 24, the Heart of Country Music Festival in Independence, Kentucky on September 11 alongside Jo Dee Messina, Little Texas, and Justin Moore, and the Walt Disney Theater at Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando on September 18. The fall also brings a special "Clint Black and Midland Live In Concert" eight-night run kicking off October 9 at Everwise Amphitheater in Indianapolis, and fans can expect a setlist built around "A Better Man," "Killin' Time," "A Good Run of Bad Luck," "Like the Rain," "When I Said I Do," and "Nothin' But the Taillights."
Early Life
Born Clint Patrick Black on February 4, 1962, in Long Branch, New Jersey, the youngest of four brothers whose mother had traveled north to be near family for the birth, he was raised from infancy in Katy, Texas, a suburb of Houston, where his father G.A. Black worked as a crane operator and the whole family gathered on Saturday afternoons for backyard barbecues that sometimes drew up to 70 neighbors to hear the brothers play. Black taught himself harmonica before age 13, wrote his first song at 14 after his parents first noticed his remarkable voice, picked up guitar at 15, and eventually dropped out of high school to play music with his brothers before striking out as a solo act and spending the next decade grinding through Houston nightclub gigs while working construction, fishing guide, and bait-cutting jobs during the day to pay his bills.
Career Highlights
In 1987 Black met guitarist and songwriter Hayden Nicholas at a Houston gig and the two forged a songwriting partnership that caught the ear of ZZ Top manager Bill Ham, who signed Black to a management deal, secured him a recording contract with RCA Nashville, and launched his debut album "Killin' Time" in 1989. That debut produced five consecutive number-one singles, making Black the first new male artist in 14 years to reach number one with his debut single "A Better Man" and setting a country record for consecutive chart-toppers from a debut album, earning him the CMA Horizon Award and several Academy of Country Music Awards including Album of the Year and Top Male Vocalist. Over a career spanning more than three decades, Black has released 13 studio albums, sold over 20 million records, charted 22 number-one singles while writing or co-writing every single one of them, won a Grammy Award, earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was named the 2025 BMI Icon Award recipient for country music, joining a list that includes Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Garth Brooks.
Family & Personal Life
Black met actress and singer Lisa Hartman on New Year's Eve 1990 when she attended his concert in Houston following promotional work for a CBS television movie, and the couple kept their relationship so private that the first photograph of them together was not published until the week they became engaged. They married on October 20, 1991, at Black's 180-acre farm in Katy, Texas, in a private ceremony attended only by close family and friends, and have remained together for more than 34 years, welcoming their only child, daughter Lily Pearl Black, on May 8, 2001, who has pursued acting and appeared in the film Flicka: Country Pride.
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