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Oct 19, 2015 · Daniel Hill, the ex-husband of country star Faith Hill, reveals how she met her birth mother and left him for Tim McGraw. Learn about their marriage, divorce and how Faith's career changed after finding her roots.
Aug 11, 2022 · Daniel Hill, who was married to Faith Hill from 1988 to 1994, said meeting her birth mother was the "failure of our marriage". He also shared his thoughts on her music career and their relationship.
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- 1999
- Beatriz Colon
Daniel Hill (born 6 February 1956) is an English actor, known for his extensive work in television, theatre and film.
- Born to Write
- She Was A Sunshine Girl
- 'Why Would She Even Want to Be with Someone Like Me?'
- The Making of A Pop Classic
- A Smash Hit & Moira Returns
- 'They Used to Call Me A Wimp'
- A Black Musician in Canada, Then and Now
- 'When We Touch' Again & Again & Again
- The 'Albatross' That Opened Every Door
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Hill, who was born Daniel Hill IV, comes from a long line of activists and writers, including his father, Daniel G. Hill (The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada), his mother, Donna (A Black Man's Toronto, 1914-1980: The Reminiscences of Harry Gairey), his brother Lawrence (The Book of Negroes) and their late sister, Karen, who was a poet and w...
In 1973, Hill had one woman on his mind. Her name was Moira, and Hill was bewitched and besotted but she wasn't interested in monogamy. Hill hoped that his new song, which rushed out of him over the course of two nights, would change her mind. "She was always asking me if I loved her," he says. "For me at 19, she was 22, so she represented an older...
But when Hill phoned Moira to play her the song, it didn't go quite as he had hoped. He had played other songs for other girls over the years. "This is what I would do as a teenager if I wanted to have some kind of an impact on a girl — I really had no impact on women," Hill says, detailing how to trap the phone receiver between the chin and the co...
Hill says that while he's "never had an experience like that with a woman even remotely close" to what he had with Moira, he wasn't "traumatized." The relationship's brevity — it lasted just two months — made its ending more manageable, as did the fact that Hill's music career was beginning to flourish. He had signed a recording contract with RCA R...
"I had absolutely no idea what a transformative life experience it would become to have a song that was an absolute smash right over the world in every single country. It was just, like, absolute madness. Today when, say, Drake or the Weeknd release music, bam, right around the world. Back then in '77, "Sometimes When we Touch" conquered Canada in ...
"Sometimes When we Touch" wasn't concerned with performing machismo. One of its most repeated lines is "I want to hold you until the tears in me subside." Hill's radical sincerity was sometimes interpreted as overwrought sentimentality and it made him a target. While millions of people obviously loved "Sometimes When we Touch," plenty of people did...
From the beginning, Hill says, he felt more at home in the American music industry. "Even now, my single from my last album that just came out, 'What About Black Lives?,' where it got airplay was American Black radio, right? OK, so there's American Black radio, which we now call urban radio, this does not exist in Canada. So right from the very beg...
In 1978, the Juno Awards acknowledged Hill's massive success. He won three awards: composer, male vocalist and album of the year, and "Sometimes When we Touch" continued to thrive thanks to the countless covers, pop-culture references and re-recordings. In 1985, country stars Mark Gray and Tammy Wynette turned the song on its head, interpreting it ...
In 1983, six years after "Sometimes When we Touch" changed his life, Hill was ready for a change. Sort of. He published a novel called Comeback, which, according to a CBC archival feature, was about a washed-up musician: "Sometimes When we Touch became an albatross," Hill said. "It seemed that no matter what kind of song I recorded, if it was a bal...
The Canadian singer-songwriter reveals the true story behind his 1977 pop ballad, the woman who inspired it, and the racism he faced in the music industry. He also shares how he learned to express his emotions and vulnerability from other Black male songwriters.
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- Andrea Warner
Daniel Grafton Hill IV [1] [2] (born 3 June 1954) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major international hits with his songs "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda Shepard, as well as a number of other charting singles in Canada and the United States.
Nov 5, 2020 · Faith Hill met Daniel Hill, a music producer, when she was 19 and married him in 1988. They divorced in 1994 after she found her birth mother and pursued her music career.
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Dec 26, 2022 · Faith Hill was married to Daniel Hill from 1988 to 1994, but they divorced and she changed her name. She later married Tim McGraw and had three daughters with him.
