Miley Cyrus’ Parents: All About Her Relationship With Dad Billy Ray and Mom Tish [ Part 1 ]

Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus welcomed their daughter Miley in 1992.

Music runs in Miley Cyrus’ family.

Her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, has been singing country music for over three decades. His hit song “Achy Breaky Heart” took the radio by storm in 1992, just one year after he met Tish Cyrus at a club. The pair tied the knot in December 1993 and raised five children together: Brandi, Trace, Miley, Braison and Noah. However, in April 2022, the two announced they were divorcing after 29 years of marriage.

Speaking with British Vogue in June 2021, Miley shared how much she values her bond with her family.

“I have a very intimate and close relationship with my family,” she said. “But like all families, we’re also complex, but we embrace the fact that each of us are so different from one another. Me and my siblings, we’re a lot alike, but we also have big differences. And we just accept that and don’t judge each other. And our family makes unconditional love a priority.”

After Miley underwent vocal surgery in 2020, she decided to stay “sober sober” and told Variety her parent’s history played a part in her decision.

“At the beginning, it was just about this vocal surgery. … But I had been thinking a lot about my mother,” she said. “My mom was adopted, and I inherited some of the feelings she had, the abandonment feelings and wanting to prove that you’re wanted and valuable.”

Miley added, “My dad’s parents divorced when he was 3, so my dad raised himself. I did a lot of family history, which has a lot of addiction and mental health challenges. So just going through that and asking, ‘Why am I the way that I am?’ By understanding the past, we understand the present and the future much more clearly.”

Here’s everything to know about Miley Cyrus’ parents Billy Ray and Tish, and their relationship with the Grammy nominee.

Billy Ray and Tish married in 1993

The pair first met at a club in 1991, a year before the country singer released his hit song “Achy Breaky Heart.” Tish told PEOPLE Now in June 2017 that she caught Billy Ray’s eye because he admired that she wasn’t drinking.

“Do you know the first thing he said to me?” she said. “ ‘I’ve never seen you drink, ever, and I think that’s so cool,’ ” noting that her friends at the time were “so rowdy.”

They tied the knot in Tennessee two years later, on Dec. 28, 1993. When Miley married ex-husband Liam Hemsworth around the same time in 2018, Tish celebrated her daughter’s nuptials and her 25th anniversary with a post on Instagram.

“25 years ago today @billyraycyrus and I stood in our living room in Franklin Tn and said ‘I Do’. I would definitely say everything has come full circle!” she said in the caption. “I love u Lovey….. if I had to do it all again, I wouldn’t change a thing.”

They have five children together

Billy Ray and Tish are parents to five children. Tish has two kids, Brandi and Trace, from a previous relationship. The country singer adopted them after the couple tied the knot in 1993.

They welcomed their first child together, Miley, in 1992, followed by their son Braison in 1994. Their youngest daughter, Noah, was born in 2000.

Billy Ray and Tish had contrasting opinions about Miley joining showbusiness

Despite having a successful singing career, Billy Ray was wary about Miley joining showbusiness. In a September 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, the pop star revealed that she had to convince her dad to let her audition for Hannah Montana.

“I think he just didn’t want me to feel any kind of rejection,” she said. “He didn’t want me to be hurt by the industry.”

As for Tish, Miley told Rolling Stone that her mom encouraged her acting ambitions because she had dreamed of being a performer herself but didn’t pursue it due to anxiety.

“She danced ballet from the time she was three till she was 30, but she was very shy,” Miley said. “She could never do this, so she wanted it for me. I get anxiety too, and she didn’t want my anxiety to ever stop me from doing it the way it stopped her.”

Billy Ray and Miley have recorded a few songs together

Billy Ray catapulted to country music stardom after he released “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1992 and the hit song peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“You know, something got to me about the song,” Cyrus told Rolling Stone in 2014. “When I played it in the club, it just felt like a hit. People just packed the dance floor.”

He went on to release his debut album, Some Gave All, that same year and has put out several studio albums since, including Storm in the Heartland, Southern Rain and Back to Tennessee. After appearing in Hannah Montana with Miley, the singer also released a few tracks with his daughter, including “Butterfly Fly Away” and “Ready, Set, Don’t Go.”

Billy Ray got his first No. 1 song when he was featured on the remix of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” in 2019. The track topped the Billboard Hot 100 for several weeks and went viral on social media.

While some detractors argued the song wasn’t “country” enough, Billy Ray defended the track in a series of tweets. “It was so obvious to me after hearing the song just one time,” he wrote. “I was thinking, what’s not country about it? What’s the rudimentary element of a country and western song? Then I thought, it’s honest, humble, and has an infectious hook, and a banjo. What the hell more do ya need?”

Billy Ray added, “A few days pᴀssed and I went to the studio to do vocals. When I finished the pᴀss, I whistled at the end of the song. Thats when the engineer stood up and said, ‘that s— is fire.’ We’re keeping that!”