Rhett akins georgia football. Rhett akins is already dad to thomas rhett 29 and kasey lee 27 by georgia slater march 25 2020 0315 pm. Thomas rhett akins 13 october 1969 valdosta georgia usa. His grandfather george lahood was of lebanese origin.
Rhett grew up in georgia and his father legendary songwriter thomas rhett akins sr attended uga for a year before leaving to focus on his music career. Rhett akins was born on october 13 1969 in valdosta georgia the son of pamela lahood and thomas akins. Although his mother played piano and his grandfather led the church choir akins was more interested in becoming a football quarterback.
All i wanted to do was play football and sing and unfortunately your body wears out before your voice does says the georgia born singersongwriter. His full name is thomas rhett akins jr. The 7 year old georgia boy with covid 19 who died drowned in a bathtub after a seizure coroner says.
Lauren akins and thomas rhetts daughters are twinning for tennessee football. Rhett celebrated with thomas rhett and fellow co writers his 29 th number one life changes in 2018 and his 30 th 1 with in the summer of 2019 look what god gave her. Akins is also a country singersongwriter who had a number of hits in the 90s which include that aint my truck and dont get me started.
I played football until i was almost 20 years old and my whole life was dedicated to that but also my secret passion was to sing. To spice things up a bit rhett married a tennessee vols fan. He then worked for his fathers oil and gas distribution company.
Having married he gave up his studies at the university of georgia after a year and worked for his fathers oil and gas distribution company. By age eleven he and his two younger brothers had formed a band. In november of 2019 rhett celebrated his 31 st 1 with brantley gilberts what happens in a small town.
The valdosta daily times rhett akins has come a long way since his days playing lowndes high school football but not so far that valdosta doesnt still feel like home.