In January 1961, when he was 17 and she was 15, country singer Gene Watson married the former Mattie Louise Bivins. They have a son and a daughter who are both adults.
Watson, who was born in Texas and has been recording music professionally since the 1960s and is still touring as of May 2015, keeps his wife out of the spotlight. The early years of their marriage and Watson’s music career, when he worked in an auto body shop to support his family and the support Mattie and their children provided Watson as his career grew in the 1970s, are described on an unofficial website run by a fan but endorsed by Watson and his management.
