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Joe Diffie Biography

Joe Diffie is one of the most popular and richest Country Singer who was born on December 28, 1958 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Country musician and singer who has five hits at #1 which included “Third Rock from The Sun” and “Home.”

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Joe Logan Diffie (December 28, 1958 – March 29, 2020) was an American country music singer. After working as a demo singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records’ Nashville division in 1990. Between then and 2004, Diffie charted 35 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one: his debut release “Home”, “If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)”, “Third Rock from the Sun”, “Pickup Man” (his longest-lasting number-one song, at four weeks) and “Bigger Than the Beatles”. In addition to these singles, he had 12 others reach the top 10 and ten more reach the top 40 on the same chart. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones, and Marty Stuart.

After graduating, he attended Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. Although he initially earned credits toward medical school, he decided against a medical profession after marrying for the first time in 1977 and ultimately dropped out before graduation. Diffie first worked in oil fields, then drove a truck that pumped concrete in the oilfield in Alice, Texas, before he moved back to Duncan to work in a foundry. During this period, he worked as a musician on the side, first in a gospel group called Higher Purpose, and then in a bluegrass band called Special Edition. Diffie then built a recording studio, began touring with Special Edition in adjacent states, and sent demonstration recordings to publishers in Nashville. Hank Thompson recorded Diffie’s “Love on the Rocks”, and Randy Travis put one of Diffie’s songs on hold, but ultimately did not record it.

He was married to the third time to his wife Theresa Crump, in 2000. They were blessed with five children, Parker, Kara, Drew, Tyler, and Kylie.

Name	Joe Diffie
First Name	Joe
Last Name	Diffie
Occupation	Country Singer
Birthday	December 28
Birth Year	1958
Place of Birth	Tulsa
Home Town	Oklahoma
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Sagittarius
Full/Birth Name
Father	Not Available
Mother	Not Available
Siblings	Not Available
Spouse	Tara Terpening
Children(s)	Kylie Tarissa, Kara Diffie, Parker Diffie, Drew Diffie, Tyler Diffie

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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After the foundry closed in 1986, Diffie declared bankruptcy and sold the studio out of financial necessity. He also divorced his wife, who left with their two children. Diffie spent several months in a state of depression before deciding to move to Nashville, Tennessee. There, he took a job at Gibson Guitar Corporation. While at Gibson, he contacted a songwriter and recorded more demos, including songs that would later be recorded by Ricky Van Shelton, Billy Dean, Alabama, and the Forester Sisters. By mid-1989, he quit working at the company to record demos full-time. Diffie also met Debbie, who later became his second wife. That same year, Diffie was contacted by Bob Montgomery, a songwriter and record producer known for working with Buddy Holly. Montgomery, who was then the vice president of A&R at Epic Records, said that he wanted to sign Diffie to a contract with the label, but had to put the singer on hold for a year. In the meantime, Holly Dunn released “There Goes My Heart Again”, which Diffie co-wrote and sang the backing vocals. Following this song’s chart success, Diffie signed with Epic in early 1990.

Joe Diffie Net Worth

Joe Diffie is one of the richest Country Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe Diffie's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He played baseball, football golf, track, and football at high school. He was employed in a foundry as well as performing music on the side.

He was awarded an award in 1998. Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with “Same Old Train.”

Joe Diffie was born into a musical family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1958. His first musical performance came at age 14, when he performed in his Aunt Dawn Anita’s country music band. Diffie’s father, Joe R., played guitar and banjo, and his mother sang. Following in his mother’s footsteps, Diffie began to sing at an early age, often listening to the albums in his father’s record collection. Diffie has said that his “Mom and Dad claimed that [he] could sing harmony when [he] was three years old.” His family moved to San Antonio, Texas, while he was in the first grade, and subsequently to Washington, where he attended fourth and fifth grades. Later, he moved to Wisconsin for the years he was in sixth grade through his second year of high school, and back to Oklahoma, where he attended high school in Velma. In his last two years in high school, Diffie played football, baseball, and golf in addition to running track; in his senior year, he was recognized as Best All-Around Male Athlete.

Net Worth	$10 Million
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	Country Singer
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House	Living in own house.

The label released Diffie’s debut album, A Thousand Winding Roads, at the end of 1990, with Montgomery and Johnny Slate as producers. Its first single, “Home”, reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The song also reached number one on the country music charts published by Radio & Records and Gavin Report, making him the first country music artist to have a number-one debut single on all three charts, as well as the first country music artist to have a debut single spend more than one week in the number-one position at the latter two publications. Diffie co-wrote the album’s second and fourth releases, “If You Want Me To” and “New Way (To Light Up an Old Flame)”; both peaked at number two on Billboard, and the former reached number one on the RPM country music charts in Canada. Between these two songs, “If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)” became Diffie’s second Billboard number one. The album itself peaked at number 23 on Top Country Albums. Diffie also performed his first concerts in late 1990, touring with George Strait and Steve Wariner. That same year, Cash Box named him Male Vocalist of the year. In 1991, Diffie co-wrote the tracks “Livin’ on What’s Left of Your Love” and “Memory Lane” on labelmate Keith Palmer’s debut album.

From 1992 to the early 2000s, Diffie held a charity concert and golf tournament benefiting First Steps, a nonprofit organization for the education of mentally and physically impaired children. His contributions to this organization won him a Humanitarian Award from the Country Radio Broadcasters in 1997. Diffie later became a country music radio broadcaster himself, fronting a midday program for Tulsa radio station KXBL.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Joe Diffie height 5 ft 11 in Joe weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Height	5 ft 11 in
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Body Measurements	Under Review
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Diffie was married four times. His first wife was Janise Parker, whom he married while in college. The couple had two children, Parker and Kara, then divorced in 1986. Parker Diffie later worked as Diffie’s on-road manager in the mid-2000s, and in mid-2010, he and Kara auditioned for American Idol. Two years after divorcing Janise, Diffie married Debbie Jones, a nurse technician. They had two sons, Drew and Tyler, the latter of whom was born with Down syndrome and nearly died in 1991 following complications from a tonsillectomy.

In his book, Miracle: Bobby Allison and the Saga of the Alabama Gang, author Peter Golenbock described the origins of Diffie’s 1993–94 love affair with Liz Allison, widow of Davey Allison. In it he wrote that ahead of Davey’s funeral, Liz had called Diffie’s office seeking the sheet music to “Ships That Don’t Come In,” a favorite of Davey’s. Diffie had met Davey and Liz a couple of times before and he offered to sing the song at Davey’s funeral. In the months that followed, much to the chagrin of Davey Allison’s family and fans, Liz sought solace in what evolved into a close relationship with Diffie. The feelings were reciprocated leading Debbie Jones to file for a legal separation followed by a divorce that became final in 1996.

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Diffie’s second album, titled Regular Joe, was released in 1992 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The first two singles from the album both peaked at number five on Billboard: “Is It Cold in Here” and “Ships That Don’t Come In”, with the latter reaching number one on Radio & Records. “Ships That Don’t Come In” was co-written by Dave Gibson, also recording on Epic at the time as a member of the Gibson/Miller Band. The album’s third single, “Next Thing Smokin'”, made its chart debut one month before “Not Too Much to Ask”, a duet that Diffie recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter for her album Come On Come On. Both of these songs made the country top 20, respectively reaching 16 and 15, and the duet was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals at the 35th Grammy Awards in 1993. The final single from Regular Joe was “Startin’ Over Blues” (originally the B-side to “Ships That Don’t Come In”), which peaked at number 41. Also included on the album was the ballad “Goodnight Sweetheart”, later a top-10 country hit in 1996 for David Kersh.

Top Facts about Joe Diffie

1. Joe Diffie was a Grammy-winning American country music singer.
2. He had 18 Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
3. His hits include “Pickup Man,” “John Deere Green,” and “Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die).”
4. Diffie sold over six million records in his career.
5. He was born on December 28, 1958, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
6. Diffie passed away on March 29, 2020, due to complications from COVID-19.
7. He began his career as a demo singer in Nashville before signing with Epic Records in 1990.
8. Diffie won the CMA Horizon Award in 1993 and the Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1999.
9. He co-wrote songs for artists such as Tim McGraw and Jo Dee Messina.
10. In addition to singing, he also appeared on TV shows like “Touched by an Angel” and “Yes Dear.”

Facts & Trivia

Joe Ranked on the list of most popular Country Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Joe Diffie celebrates birthday on December 28 of every year.

Also in 1993, Diffie was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. Several other artists and he won that year’s Country Music Association award for Vocal Event of the Year, for their guest vocals on George Jones’s “I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair”. Tim McGraw also included two of Diffie’s songs on his 1993 debut album: another version of “Memory Lane”, which he released as a single, and “Tears in the Rain”.

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