Although George Strait announced that he would be retiring from touring in 2014, he continues to perform in Las Vegas and occasionally at large venues in other cities.
Did George Strait retire from singing?
Strait’s career continued undiminished in the late 1990s and beyond.
In 1995, he celebrated his fifteenth year as a recording artist by releasing a boxed-set career retrospective, Strait Out of the Box, which flew out of stores in unprecedented numbers.
One year later, the CMA presented him with the Single of the Year award for “Check Yes or No,” as well as the awards for Album of the Year (Blue Clear Sky) and Male Vocalist of the Year. Strait won another CMA Male Vocalist of the Year award and another CMA Album of the Year award (Carrying Your Love with Me) in 1997.
The next year, he kicked off the George Strait Country Music Festival, a nationwide, multi-artist tour sponsored by Nokia and Chevy Trucks, and released yet another best-selling album, One Step at a Time. He released Always Never the Same in 1999 and followed in 2000 with George Strait, which showcased his hit single “Go On.”
