Table of Biography
Connie Smith is a famous American musician, who has had eleven Grammy Award nominations and twenty top ten singles, including “Then and Only Then”. “Once a Day” is the best hit song of Smith in 1964, which was No. 1 on Billboard’s Charts for 8 weeks in a row.
Early Life and Education
Connie Smith was born on August 14, 1941, in Elkhart, Indiana, United States. She is a celebrated Songwriter and singer.
Even though she was born in Indiana, she spent a lot of her initial long time in West Virginia and later moved to Ohio. Her parents, Hobart Meador (Father) and Wilma Meador (Mother) were both from West Virginia.
Her dad was harsh when she was a kid, making Smith endure a psychological breakdown while she was in her teens. In West Virginia, she started to begin singing locally.
She was the class salutatorian when she graduated from Salem-Liberty High School in 1959. She won a talent contest at Frontier Ranch Country Music Park when she was twenty-two.
Personal Life
Caption: Connie Smith with Marty Stuart (Husband)
Connie Smith – Net Worth 2024
According to Forbes, Wikipedia, IMDB, and other reputable online sources, Connie Smith has an estimated net worth of $8 Million at the age of 82 years.
Moreover, she has earned most of her wealth from her thriving career as a Songwriter and singer in the United States. She may make money from other undiscovered sources.
Awards and Nominations
Connie Smith was nominated 11 times in total for the Grammy Awards in different nominees to date in 1964, 1966, 1967, 169, 1973, and 1975.
Likewise, Smith in the years 1967, 1970, and 1972 was nominated for the CMA award for female vocalist. And in 1972, 1974, and 1975 the Top Female Vocalist of the Music City News.
In 1979 She won the Music City News Gospel Group Award and also in 2002 she won the Country Music Television award. In the year 2012, she won the Country Music Association awards.
In 2017 she won the Rolling Stone Award for 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time. She is the 8764th most famous American and also ranked 3rd in famous people born in Elkhart, Indiana, U.S.
Caption: Connie at The 53rd Annual CMA Awards
Professional Life
“Once a Day” earned Connie Smith her first hit love song. Bill Anderson wrote it and in 1964 the song was released.
Throughout 1965, she became a member of the Grand Ole Opry, the same series she used to watch. Furthermore, Smith had a stream of #1 hits until 1968.
However, she divorced her husband Jerry Smith, and felt increasingly put upon by her showbiz lifestyle and the stresses of touring.
Despite this, her secular content remained more popular with the public than her religious songs. Between the years 1978 to 1992, she didn’t release any albums.
Smith performed much of her 80s on the Grand Ole Opry. In the year the 2000s, Smith released “Love Never Fails” and “Long Line of Heartaches”.
Caption: Connie Singing at her concert
In 2012, the Country Music Hall of Fame announced they were inducting her. The same year Bear Family published a retrospective of the profession Just For What I Am.
Connie Smith – Social Media
Connie is active on her official Facebook account and goes by the name Connie Smith (@conniesmithofficial).
She doesn’t have an official page on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter accounts, etc. but has her die-hard fan pages where updates about her life are posted.
Caption: Connie