Tritt married his wife Theresa Nelson on 12th April, 1997 and the couple was blessed with a baby girl, Tyler on 18th February 1998, Tristan, their second born was on 16th June 1999 and their young son Tarian on 20th November 2003.
Tritt faced tragedy in 2019 when his tour bus suffered an accident in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that cost the lives of two people who were driving in the wrong direction on Veteran’s Highway.
Travis Tritt Net Worth
Travis Tritt net worth is about $35 million as of 2024. He is an American singer of country music, a songwriter and an actor. This wealth comes from his selling records based on his music career besides many other songs he has authored as well as from his acting experiences.
Early Life
Travis is the full named James Travis Tritt, who was born on February 9, 1963 in Marietta, Georgia. He was raised with mother Gwen, father James and sister Sheila and at a youthful age he taught himself how to play guitar.
At the age of 13, Travis got involved in his church’s musical and started writing songs during his time at Sprayberry High School. He then begins assembling a bluegrass band with several of his acquaintances; the group came in a distant second when the joined in singing ‘Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys’ at a local talent show.
Namely, with the support of Danny Davenport, Warner Bros. Records executive, Tritt recorded the demo album “Proud of the Country.” Shortly after that Davenport posted the album to Warner Bros. representatives and Travis was literally snapped up by Warner’s Nashville facility.
Career
Travis released the holiday album “A Travis Tritt Christmas: It is adding 4× Platinum, “The Loving Time of the Year” (1992) as well as the double platinum, “Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof” (1994) and the platinum, “The Restless Kind” (1996). In the ‘90s, all of 15 of Tritt’s singles entered the Hot Country Songs chart list of the top 10.
Columbia Nashville released his first album of the new millennium, “Down the Road I Go,” which featured patriotic songs and went Platinum. The single “Best of Intentions” reached no. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and “It’s a Great Day to Be Alive” and “Love of a Woman” both reached number 2.
He also cameoed in “Tales from the Crypt” (1995), “Jeff Foxworthy Show” (1995), and “Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman” (1996), and he was in the 1996 film “Sgt Bilko” with the notables Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, and Phil Hartman.
The Country Club is Tritt’s first studio album, released on February 22, 1990, it ranked at number 3 in “Billboards” Top Country Albums, 2X Platinum.
He first appeared on screen in the television movie “Rio Diablo” in 1993. He worked in TV movies “A Holiday for Love” (1996), “The Long Kill” (1999), and screntized in the movies “Fire Down Below” (1997) and “Blues Brothers 2000” (1998), in which he returned.
