Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black have been together for over three decades.
The longtime country music couple met backstage after one of Black’s New Year’s Eve concerts in 1990. “It was in slow motion, like you see in the movies,” Lisa told PEOPLE in 2021. “There was something there.”
Clint added: “I knew I was looking at someone amazing. I didn’t know anything about her. I didn’t know her TV show. I just looked into her eyes and I was just, wow!”
They were married on October 20, 1991 in Texas. And after all these years together, their bond is still going strong. Clint also shared with PEOPLE in 2015, “the attraction is still there. She is even more beautiful today, especially knowing what she is like on the inside. She cares and loves more and better than I ever could, so I am lifted up to do a bigger and better job of love, kindness and consideration.”
Here’s everything you need to know about Clint Black’s wife, Lisa Hartman Black.
She is an actress
Lisa Hartman Black in ‘Scared Silly’.
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Lisa is an actress and was previously a cast member of a hit TV drama Landing nodes. Other television roles are also included Tabitha and 2000 Malibu Road. In addition to television, Lisa has also appeared in numerous films, including Where are the boys? and Flicka: Pride of the country.
She met Clint at his concert in 1990
Lisa Hartman and Clint Black.
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Lisa and Clint met backstage at one of his concerts in Houston, Texas in 1990.
“I didn’t know who she was,” Clint told PEOPLE, “but when I saw her standing there with those beautiful blue eyes, I knew I wanted to see her again.”
The couple started dating and it worked out because of their busy schedule. “We were both very busy, so whenever we saw each other, we were exhausted,” Lisa told PEOPLE. But things got more serious in August 1991 when Clint visited her on the set of her TV movie The Return of Eliot Ness.
“He had four days off, just like me, and they were the same four days,” said Lisa. “It was like someone was looking down and saying, ‘You all have to be together.’ ”
Clint proposed to Lisa in September 1991
Clint Black and Lisa Hartman at a cancer research benefit conference on October 19, 1991 in Houston, TX.
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Clint shared with PEOPLE that he popped the question to Lisa at the college track in Salt Lake City where he was training before the show.
“We started talking about life and how much we meant to each other,” Lisa said. “It was probably an endorphin high or something, but lie asked me to marry him and I said yes.”
They got married in October 1991
Clint Black and Lisa Hartman during the 19th American Music Awards.
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Lisa and Clint got married exactly 10 months and 20 days after they first met, according to Life in the countryside. They were married on Clint’s 180 acre farm in Texas.
Lisa told the publication, “Once I met him and got to know him and then started learning about his music and all that, and his poetry, I kind of had to forget about it when I was around him,” she said. “I would find myself looking at him saying, ‘You write all this stuff? Where does that come from?’ ”
And Clint knew she was “the one”. He said, “I knew intuitively that I could trust her with my heart and my life.”
They have one daughter, Lily Pearl Black
Lily Pearl Black, Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black on August 23, 2023 at the 16th Annual Academy of Country Music in Nashville, Tennessee.
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The couple has one daughter, Lily Pearl Black. The couple shared with PEOPLE that Lily was born 10 years after they married, and Lisa and Clint took a step back in their careers.
“I remember seeing an interview with Billy Joel where he was talking about what he missed when he left and the decision he made,” Clint told PEOPLE, “and he used the phrase, ‘I didn’t want to be Uncle Dad,’ and that really had an impact on me.”
Like her famous parents, she also has musical talent and studied music at Belmont University. »She’s gone and running. I am proud. He has a good head on his shoulders. We always tell her: ‘You’re lucky to have us’, but it’s true. She has parents who came up in business and we can help her find her way, right and wrong, questions to ask and things to avoid. And so far so good,” Lisa told PEOPLE.
She inspires Clint’s songwriting
Clint Black and Lisa Hartman at the 40th Annual CMA Awards on November 6, 2006 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Ever since their marriage, Clint has written his songs based on his relationship with Lisa, calling her the “biggest influence” in his life.
“Once we fell in love,” he told PEOPLE, “then every love song I wrote had to sound true to who we are.”
Hartman Black-inspired songs include the pair’s duets “You Still Get to Me” and “Easy for Me to Say,” per Life in the countryside, “When we got married, my ability to feel deepened,” he said. “Our marriage, who we are together, drives me. Big question [was], what would the two of us say in front of the rest of the world? It had to ring true to who we are.”
She is also a singer
Clint Black performs a duet with his wife Lisa Hartman Black during the 2nd Annual Music City Gives Back Concert on June 5, 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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In addition to being a musical inspiration, she also sang with him on many songs, including 1999’s “When I Said I Do.”
Before they married, Lisa recorded four pop-rock albums between the 1970s and the mid-1980s.
“His career was so big and I did my thing and just let it go,” she told PEOPLE.
But Clint is a big fan of her voice. He told PEOPLE: “As soon as she opens her mouth and starts singing, it does something to me. I know the wonderful person behind that voice, so it gives me great joy.”
They appeared on Masked singer together
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In 2020, the couple performed as Snowy Owls at Masked singer. Clint told PEOPLE, “I looked up at Lisa and said, ‘Well, listen to this,'” he recounted. “We just laughed at the idea of it, and then we looked at each other and we knew we were actually going to think about to do it. And it took about five minutes of serious talking about it and then we got in. It was so fast.”
Lisa added: “We’ve never done anything like this before, so we really relied on each other.”
And the couple shared their excitement. “As soon as we looked at each other, we both said, ‘Yes.’ When we committed, we were so excited,” Lisa told PEOPLE. “And then we just did Zoom calls and went through hundreds of songs. It was a lot of fun.”
They went on tour together
Clint Black and actress Lisa Hartman Black perform on stage during the 2016 CMA Festival on June 10, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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The couple also embarked on a joint tour with their daughter Lily Pearl Black, cleverly titled “Mostly Hits & the Mrs.”, in late 2022 and early 2023.
Clint told PEOPLE that the tour was an opportunity to “continue to create something in front of us that we have to be ready for and go work and enjoy. This tour is a new chapter. It’s challenging, it’s exciting, it’s fun.”
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