The legend of our time who has been named the “King of Country Music” George Strait began his musical career while attending Pearsall High School, where he performed in a rock and roll garage band, taking most influence from the Beatles. “The Beatles were big,” Strait confirmed. “I listened to them a lot and that whole bunch of groups that were popular then.
What is George Strait’s real name?
George Strait was born on May 18, 1952, in Poteet, Texas, to John Byron Strait Sr., and Doris Jean Couser. He was named by his parents George Harvey Strait Sr.
Strait grew up in nearby Pearsall, in Frio County, where his father was a junior high school mathematics teacher and the owner of a 2,000-acre (810 ha) cattle ranch outside of Big Wells, Texas. The family worked at the ranch on the weekends and in the summers. When George was in the fourth grade, his father and mother got divorced, and his mother moved away with his sister, Pency. George and his brother John Jr. were raised by their father.
Strait enrolled at Southwest Texas State University which is now called Texas State University in San Marcos when he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1975. He graduated with a degree in agriculture.
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