Country music star Ray Stevens is recovering after he fell and broke his neck last month.
Stevens, 87, was briefly hospitalized after the March 29 fall in Nashville, where he has lived and worked since 1962. He is now recovering at home.
The Grammy-winning songwriter was ordered to wear a neck brace for four weeks after the injury, his team announced Tuesday in an Instagram post.
“Despite the injury, he remains fully mobile and in good spirits as he continues his recovery,” the statement said.
Stevens is set to release his next album, Favorites Old & New, Friday on Curb Records.
The legendary singer is known for his satirical comedy performances, including his 1974 hit comedy song “The Streak,” which capitalized on the seventies trend of running nude in public.
His decades-long recording career also saw him win Grammy Awards for his recordings of “Everything is Beautiful” and “Misty.”
He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019, and has also been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Christian Music Hall of Fame.
Throughout his career, Stevens has worked with other country music legends including Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton and Brook Benton. He also sang with The Jordanaires and once played trumpet for Elvis Presley, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Stevens faced another health complication last year, when he was hospitalized July 4 for chest pains. The country star was determined to have had a “mild” heart attack, and he underwent minimally-invasive heart surgery, he shared in a statement at the time.
His performances at his CabaRay Showroom in Nashville were canceled for the rest of the month as he recovered.
Stevens opened CabaRay, where he hosted his 30-minute weekly music variety show, to the public in 2018 and performed hundreds of shows each Saturday night for years.
However, following his heart attack, Stevens announced he was putting the venue up for sale in August 2025.
“At 86 and with my recent health problems, it’s probably time to slow down, and selling CabaRay is the first step,” he said in a press release at the time.
“But in the interim, I still plan on doing shows once I’m fully recovered. I still have a lot I want to do in the recording studio, so I’ll focus all of my energy in that direction along with making videos to go along with the music from time to time.”
The singer and comedian, whose real name is Harold Ragsdale, has two daughters and four grandchildren with his late wife, Penny Jackson Ragdale.
Stevens and Ragdale were married for over 60 years before she died from cancer December 31, 2021.
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