Randy Travis, a baritone singer who has won a Grammy, is well-known in the country music genre. He has had more than two decades of success as one of the biggest country music performers. He has performed all over the world, sold more than 25 million albums, and won seven Grammy Awards.

Currently, Randy Travis spends the majority of his time at his ranch outside of Tioga, close to Lake Ray Roberts in Cooke County, where he lives with his wife, Mary Davis-Travis. Nevertheless, did you know that despite attaining the highest pinnacle of fame, money, and glory, the country music artist also went through some difficult times?

Randy Travis visited the emergency room in July 2013 and complained of congestion. A few days later, “as a consequence of his congestive heart failure,” he experienced a severe stroke. His left brain’s entire core region has been impacted by this. His heart stopped entirely at one point, and medical personnel acted quickly to put him on life support and create a coma to help protect his brain.

The singer had a 1% chance of surviving, the doctors informed his then-fiancée Mary, and she was asked to think about turning off his life support. Nonetheless, Randy Travis’ future bride remained by his side during the entire incident. The country music star’s busy itinerary, which included tour dates and an acting part in an upcoming TV pilot, were all postponed.

Even in his semi-coma state, as he was lying there and squeezed my hand, Mary recalled, “I simply saw this tear that fell, and it was one tear at a time.” I recently returned to the doctors and told them, “We’re fighting this.”

The singer’s biography covered all the highs and lows of his life, from his acclaimed music career—during which he won seven Grammy Awards—to his battles with alcoholism and fury, including his infamous arrest in 2012 for drunken driving while nude.

I didn’t give much consideration to writing a book about my life while I was busy living it, but now that I’ve done both, Travis told People, “I know the difference between life and living.”

I realize that anything I have done for myself will pass away with me, but whatever I have done for mankind will endure, he continued. Amen. Forever and ever.

The “I Told You So” singer also discussed his severe financial struggles, which led to a drastically different situation now from his enormous wealth and fame. Travis went into length about the financial situation he and his wife are in in the last 100 or so pages of the biography.

When the pair discovered that the country singer didn’t have disability insurance for his legendary voice, they were completely astonished and heartbroken. In addition to the missing insurance policy, Travis had also been misled into thinking that payments had been made and royalties had been paid, only to discover that these cheques never materialized.

In the end, Travis accepted responsibility for his actions and stated that he should never have let people make any significant financial decisions on his behalf without his knowledge. The couple expressed their desire for others to have the courage to do the same by acknowledging their own shortcomings.

Now as Randy Travis is approaching his 61st birthday, his wife confirms that the country musician still occasionally sings, despite the fact that he still has aphasia. His distinctive baritone was strangely unaffected, according to the doctors.

When we travel back and forth from Texas to Tennessee, he will sing in the car. He will sing a lot. He only needs to be in the right frame of mind and is verse-perfect, Mary said. The interesting thing about a stroke and aphasia is that the brain is still fully functional.