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GALLERY: Billy Ray Cyrus From Mullet To Miley To ‘Old Town Road’

Billy Ray Cyrus celebrates his 58th birthday today so we celebrate the “Old Town Road” singer through pictures.

GALLERY: Billy Ray Cyrus Through The Years

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Billy Ray Cyrus celebrates his 58th birthday today so we celebrate the "Old Town Road" singer through pictures.

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Attending an event in 2000.


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Billy Ray Cyrus 2001 "Doc" Breakfast


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Billy Ray Cyrus explains the difficulties of simultaneously being a TV star and maintaining his focus on recording and touring as a Country entertainer at the Sony Music Fan Fair press conference June 14, 2001 Nashville, TN. Fan Fair, the world''s biggest country music festival , returned to downtown Nashville June 14-17 with an aggregate daily attendance of more than 124,000, the biggest crowd in Fan Fair''s history.


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Billy Ray Cyrus participates in the 75th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade November 22, 2001 in New York City.


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Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus poses as Stars of the Disney Channel appear at Splashlight Studios February 9, 2006 in New York City.


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Kelly Clarkson, Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter Miley arrive at the 41st Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 23, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus attend the 40th Annual CMA Awards at the Gaylord Entertainment Center November 6, 2006 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Billy Ray Cyrus (C) and actress Miley Cyrus (R) with character Minnie Mouse arrive to the world premiere of Disney Channel's "High School Musical 2" held at the Downtown Disney District at Disneyland Resort on August 14, 2007 in Anaheim, California.


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Billy Ray Cyrus and Lil Nas X perform onstage at the 2019 BET Awards on June 23, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.


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Billy Ray Cyrus (L) and Lil Nas X pose backstage during the 2019 Stagecoach Festival at Empire Polo Field on April 28, 2019 in Indio, California.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.