Tim McGraw Tribute Artist Lee Crites

Phone: 616-970-3920

E-mail: Lee@MyMcGrawShow.com

Biography

Being born May 4, 1967, just 3 days after Tim McGraw, maybe it was fate that I would end up looking like him and performing as a Tim McGraw Tribute Artist. It was in singing competitions in 2004 when people started telling me that I look just like Tim McGraw. Soon thereafter I began learning his songs and even won a celebrity look-a-like competition!

In 2007, at a minor league baseball game, I was asked by the event staff if they could put me on the big screen at the stadium because I look so much like Tim McGraw. The whole crowd was curious if Tim McGraw was actually at the game. As the game concluded I was asked to go on the field and sing a song. The whole arena including the media thought I was actually Tim McGraw and nearly mobbed the field trying to get to me. Obviously they were eventually told I wasn't the country superstar, but it was at that moment that I realized I would love to perform as a Tim McGraw Tribute Artist.

Since then I have performed at many private and public functions, charity events, fairs, and festivals; including a show with country music artist Jimmy Wayne. I attended and performed at the 2010 Celebrity Impersonators Convention in Las Vegas, which included the Reel Awards (the Academy Awards for Celebrity Impersonators) with Red Carpet interviews. I have been on the nationally televised show NFL Full Contact on TruTV as well as the CBS Sunday Morning News Show.  In June 2010 I also was able to sing the National Anthem at the West Michigan Whitecaps...the minor league baseball team that sparked the beginning of my career singing a tribute to Tim McGraw.

 

I am very honored to be a member of Team McGraw for the 2010 ING New York City Marathon where I will be running alongside my good friend Jeff McMahon from Tim McGraw’s band, the Dancehall Doctors. As a member of Team McGraw I am raising money for the Tug McGraw Foundation to support brain cancer research.

 

I am very blessed and honored to have the many opportunities, past and present, to perform a tribute to such a great entertainer and individual as Tim McGraw.