Dwight Yoakam

Full name: Dwight David Yoakam

Birth date: Oct. 23, 1956

Birthplace: Pikeville, Ky.

Hair: light brown

Eyes: blue

Height: 6 ft.

Marital status: single

Hat: same white Stetson cowboy hat for 15 years

Jeans: Levi's 517, slim cut

Early exposure to traditional music: grandmother sang Appalachian folk songs.

Residence: Spanish-style home in Hollywood Hills, Calif.; the Bony Pony ranch in the Santa Monica mountains

Kitchen furniture: a '50s jukebox stocked with records from Elvis Presley to Johnny Cash to Motown

Charities: Los Angeles Mission

Backup band: Babylon Cowboys

Grammy: 1993 Best Country Vocal Performance, Male

Dance move named after him: The Dwight -- keeping legs together, bend knees and twist down, then twist up

Hobbies: flying, collecting cars

Acting roles: cable movies Red Rocks West and Roswell; theatrical releases Sling Blade and The Newton Boys

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