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    • Feb 6, 1962
    Richie McDonald is born in Lubbock, Texas. He becomes the lead singer of Lonestar, whose slick harmonies define a series of hits beginning in the mid-1990s, including "No News," "I'm Already There" and the pop crossover ballad "Amazed"
    Oct 2, 1991
    A Miller Lite commercial debuts on CBS-TV during the Country Music Association Awards. Featured is the voice of Richie McDonald, destined to become the lead singer of Lonestar
    Jan 10, 1996
    Lonestar lead vocalist Richie McDonald and his wife, Lorie, have their first child, Rhett McDonald, at Nashville's Baptist Hospital. The boy eventually inspires Dad to write "I'm Already There"
    Nov 3, 1997
    Vince Gill hosts his eighth celebrity basketball game at Nashville's Belmont University, raising $75,000 for scholarships. Among the more than 30 participants: Asleep At The Wheel's Ray Benson, and Lonestar's Michael Britt, Dean Sams and Richie McDonald
    Sep 1, 1998
    Lonestar vocalist Richie McDonald and his wife, Lorie, have a daughter, Mollie Ann McDonald, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. The youngster inspires a line about a "blue-eyed blonde with her shoes on wrong" in "My Front Porch Looking In"
    Mar 21, 2001
    The stylist for Lonestar's Richie McDonald has a seizure while trimming the singer's eyebrows. McDonald tends to her until paramedics arrive
    Apr 11, 2001
    Lonestar's Richie McDonald and his wife, Lorie, have a daughter, Maisie Elizabeth McDonald, in Nashville. The girl is referenced in the hit "My Front Porch Looking In" as a "carrot top who can barely walk"
    Sep 27, 2001
    Lonestar's Richie McDonald runs 20 miles for the first time in Athens, Georgia, while training for a marathon
    Oct 28, 2001
    Lonestar's Richie McDonald runs in the 26th Marine Corps marathon in Washington, D.C., to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It's his first 26-mile foot race, and he finishes in about 4.5 hours
    Jun 11, 2002
    Lonestar receives the National Fatherhood Initiative's 2002 Fatherhood Award in San Antonio. The trophy partially recognizes "I'm Already There," a song written by lead singer Richie McDonald, inspired by a conversation with son Rhett
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