• Faith is married to country superstar/actor Tim McGraw.

• Children: Gracie Katherine (b. May 5th 1997), Maggie Elizabeth (b.August 12th 1998) and Audrey Caroline (b. December 6th 2001).

• Faith Hill’s old-fashioned taste in television shows includes longtime fave Little House on the Prairie. “I cry every time I see one of those shows,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 1994. “They teach you so much about morals.”

• Chosen by “People” magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 2000.

• Adopted by Edna and Ted Perry.

• Raised in Star, Mississippi. As a big-haired high school brunette, she scheduled singing gigs at fairs and churches around her duties as prom queen and cheerleader. She made only enough money to pay the band and buy gas for the car. An older brother drove her to gigs and bought her blue suede boots. At age 19, she left for Nashville where she worked as a gofer for Reba McEntire.

• Made her debut as a musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” on October 12th, Sarah Michelle Gellar is the guest host.

• The most influential moment in Faith Hill’s professional path was sitting in the top row at an Elvis Presley concert in Mississippi in 1975. “When he walked out onstage he looked like a pea, but to me he was larger than life,” she told PEOPLE. “I’m not sure what it was – his presence, the reaction of the people – but after that concert, I had to be a performer, pure and simple.”

• Made her film debut in a remake of The Stepford Wives (1975) with Nicole Kidman. She will play the role of Sarah Sunderson.

• Met her biological mother in the early 1990s

• Had the role of Mel Gibson’s wife in We Were Soldiers (2002), but left the film and was replaced by Madeleine Stowe

• Daughter-in-law of Tug McGraw.

• Faith Hill keeps it simple when ordering from the Nashville Baskin-Robbins: one scoop each of vanilla and chocolate.

• Did her first bikini photo shoot for Shape magazine at the age of 41 as a birthday present to herself.

• Good friend with Martina McBride.

• At 16, Faith Hill had a gig at a Raleigh, Miss., “tobacco spit,” where contestants aimed for a strategically placed spittoon. “They cleaned the stage off with towels, and then I went on,” Faith Hill told PEOPLE.

• Faith Hill’s first public performance was at a women’s club luncheon when she was 10. She taught herself to play guitar several years later.