Billy Ray Cyrus is an award-winning country music legend whose "Achy
Breaky Heart" propelled his debut album, "Some Gave All," to the top of
the charts for a record-breaking seventeen weeks. He's also father of
Miley Cyrus, one of Hollywood's most successful young stars, who grew up
on stage and on screen, most famously as the lead on the Disney
Channel's "Hannah Montana," where Billy Ray Cyrus played her father. But
sometimes the truth is even better than fiction. Now, for the first
time, fans can read about Cyrus's tenacious and inspiring struggle to
find his own way to faith, family, and the power of music.
Hillbilly Heart opens during Cyrus's turbulent childhood in Kentucky,
where he sought refuge in music and sports after his parents' divorce.
He was a troublemaker in training, known more for pulling pranks than
for following in his preacher grandfather's much-vaunted footsteps. But
when he heard a voice telling him to get a left-handed guitar and start
a band, this rebel found his cause. Ten years later, after tirelessly
working the club circuit and knocking on the closed doors of music
executives from Nashville to Los Angeles, Cyrus finally made a
stratospheric breakthrough, becoming a multi-platinum selling artist and
taking his rock-and-roll twist on country music to the world's stage.
Cyrus fans have always been able to piece together the details of his
life through his lyrics--the ups and downs, adventures and
disappointments--but Hillbilly Heart gives them a front row seat for his
most candid performance ever.
