Billy Ray Cyrus

Billy Ray Cyrus is an American country singer, songwriter, and actor best known for his 1992 breakthrough single «Achy Breaky Heart», one of the biggest country crossover hits of its era and a song that sparked a global line-dancing craze. Its accompanying music video helped push the dance into the mainstream and made Cyrus one of the most recognizable faces in country music at the start of the 1990s.

Musically, Cyrus works at the intersection of country, rock, and pop, favoring anthemic, radio-friendly songwriting with a populist, working-class appeal that made his early albums commercially dominant. Beyond music, he built a parallel career in television and film, and later became known for his connection to his daughter Miley Cyrus's career, including their collaboration on «Hannah Montana» material and, decades later, the hit «Old Town Road» with Lil Nas X, which returned him to the top of the charts and introduced him to a new generation.

Across more than three decades, Cyrus has remained a fixture of mainstream country, balancing traditional themes of home and heartbreak with an accessible, arena-ready sound that helped define country's commercial explosion in the 1990s.