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Samuel Timothy 'Tim' McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer and actor. Many of his albums and singles have topped the country music charts, leading him to achieve total album sales in excess of 40 million units. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of former baseball player Tug McGraw. He had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard albums charts. Twenty-one singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has won 3 Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and 3 People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with his wife Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and one of the top five among all genres of music. He has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side (with Sandra Bullock), Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, and Four Christmases (with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), and lead roles in Flicka (2006) and Country Strong (2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats. Taylor Swift's debut single, "Tim McGraw", refers to him and his song, "Can't Tell Me Nothin'". In honor of his grandfather's Italian heritage, he was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in 2004, receiving the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Music during the Foundation's 29th Anniversary Gala. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim McGraw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Novotný family can't longer live in Czechoslovakia and pretend that communism is great and they were doing well, it was not true and everyone knew it. They had it worse because they are Christians, which meant that they were insulted by people devoted to communism, like teachers, people in offices, or higher-ranking workers in the company, but the worst was the frequent interrogations by STB policemen. Novotny had a dream to live in America. Getting from the ČSSR to the West was complicated in the 70s. The communist authorities tried to reduce emigration to a minimum, and if someone was released from the wired Soviet territory, his relatives (spouse, children) had to stay at home as hostages, as insurance, and if the person did not return, then the family was over. A passport was not enough to travel, an exit clause and a promise of foreign currency were also required, all of that was conditioned by many assessments on the basis of which the state apparatus decided. 3 people knew about the emigration: Monica's brother Petr, Tomáš's sister Lucie and friend Karel. They went to the station, where several checks awaited them and also in train. They got across a border to Austria, where Jakub and Sára waited, they lived there for a while and then quickly to USA. When they saw Statue of Liberty from the plane window, they cried. Even life in new homeland isn't easy, but in America it is wonderful. The Novotnys changed their name to Newman and opened a shoe store in Brooklyn.
