Thomas Rhett Biography
Thomas Rhett Akins Jr. popularly known as Thomas Rhett is an American country music singer as well as a songwriter. He has recorded three studio albums with Big Machine Records’ Valory Music imprint. The albums include, It Goes Like This (2013), Tangled Up (2015), and Life Changes (2017).
Rhett was born in Valdosta, Georgia. He went to a high school where he joined a band by the name The High Heeled Flip Flops. After high school, he enrolled for college at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. At the university, she majored in communications.
Thomas Rhett Age
Thomas was born on the 30th of March 1990. He is 29 years old as of 2019.
Thomas Rhett Family |Thomas Rhett Dad
Rhett is the son of Paige Braswell and Rhett Akins. His father Akins is a renowned singer while his mother’s profession is not yet revealed. Information regarding his siblings is also not yet publicized.
Thomas Rhett Wife
Thomas Rhett is married to his childhood friend Lauren Akins. Rhett and Lauren knew each other since second grade. The couple married on October 2012.
Thomas Rhett Kids
Around February 2017 Thomas and his wife revealed that they were expecting a baby girl together. In August and they adopted a baby girl Willa Gray Akins from Uganda.
Their baby Gray was born on November 1, 2015). On August 12, 2017, the couple welcomed their second daughter, Ada James Akins.
Thomas Rhett Life Changes
Around September Rhett launched his third studio album titled Life Changes. It comprised of the chart-topping singles “Craving You” featuring Maren Morris, “Unforgettable”, and “Marry Me”. The title track was released as the album’s fourth single on April 16, 2018.
Thomas Rhett Sixteen
The album’s fifth single was “Sixteen”. On March 1, 2019, he released “Look What God Gave Her” to be the leadoff single to his upcoming fourth studio album, Center Point Road.
On the night of 2nd March, on Saturday Night Live, he performed a new song from the album, called “Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time.”
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Thomas Rhett Songs
Rhett co-wrote the song “I Ain’t Ready to Quit” on Jason Aldean’s 2010 album My Kinda Party. He then went ahead to ink a recording contract with Big Machine Records’ Valory Music Group division in 2011.
When the album was launched it peaked to the top 40 of the Billboard 200 in its initial 21 weeks in a row. The album was such a commercial success that it sold 1.7 million in its first years of release.
Rhett then proceeded to co-wrote several songs such as the 2013 singles “1994” by Jason Aldean, “Parking Lot Party” by Lee Brice, and “Round Here” by Florida Georgia Line.
In early 2012, he launched his first single, “Something to Do with My Hands”. The song was followed later by “Beer with Jesus”. All of these songs made the top 30 on the Hot Country Songs charts.
His next single, “It Goes Like This”, was at the top of the Country Airplay chart. The song also reached its peak at number 2 on the Hot Country Songs.
The fourth single, “Get Me Some of That”, became his second number 1 single in early 2014. He then released the album’s fifth single titled “Make Me Wanna”.
The song was launched in country radio on the 4th of August 2014. Within the two singles, he sang guest vocals along with Justin Moore on Brantley Gilbert’s “Small Town Throwdown”.
Thomas Rhett Die A Happy Man
Thomas released his second album, Tangled Up, on September 25. The album’s second single, “Die a Happy Man” launched in a country radio on September 28, 2015.
He then released the album’s third single, “T-Shirt” in a country radio on February 16, 2016. The next song to be released in the album was “Vacation”. It was launched also in a country radio on June 13, 2016.
Observing that his music was doing better on the charts he went ahead to release the next single in the album. The song was a single with Deluxe Version, “Star of the Show”. It was also released to country radio on October 3, 2016.
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Thomas Rhett Net Worth
Rhett has an estimated net worth of $6.5 million as of 2018.
Thomas Rhett Tour
Headlining
- Home Team Tour[20] (2017) with Kelsea Ballerini, Russell Dickerson, Ryan Hurd, Brett Young, Old Dominion, Dan + Shay, and Walker Hayes.
- Life Changes Tour (2018)[21] with Brett Young, Midland, and Jillian Jacqueline.
- Very Hot Summer Tour (2019) with Dustin Lynch, Russell Dickerson, and Rhett Akins.
Supporting
- Own the Night Tour with Lady Antebellum (2012)
- Night Train Tour with Jason Aldean and Jake Owen (2013)
- Anything Goes Tour with Florida Georgia Line and Frankie Ballard (2015)
- Suits & Boots Tour (co-headlining) with Brett Eldredge (2015)
- We Were Here Tour with Jason Aldean (2016)
- C2C: Country to Country with Miranda Lambert, Dwight Yoakam and Ashley Monroe (2016)
- Six String Circus Tour with Jason Aldean (2016