Everything to know about Carrie Underwood’s husband, Mike Fisher

Carrie Underwood is an “American Idol” alum turned judge, an award-winning country singer, the voice of the “Sunday Night Football” theme song and an Inauguration Day headliner.

But away from the stage and the recording studio, there is another role she is proud of – wife to Mike Fisher.

Fisher, a former NHL star, can often be found by his wife’s side in Tennessee, where they live with their children, and on the red carpet.

Read on to learn more about the man Underwood calls the love of her life, her perfect match and the “iron to sharpen” her steel Instagram.

He‘s from Canada

Fisher was born on June 5, 1980, in Peterborough, Ontario, to parents Jim and Karen Fisher, who raised him and his three siblings in the city.

As a child he discovered his passion for ice hockey and began playing in the Peterborough Minor Hockey Association.

He played in the NHL

Fisher joined the Ottawa Senators in 1999, serving as a center. He remained with the Senators until 2011 – with the exception of the 2004-2005 lockout – when he played for Switzerland’s EV Zug. In 2011, he was traded to an American team.

He made his debut with the Nashville Predators that same year and eventually became team captain in 2016, a year before retiring – the first time. Fisher returned to the team in 2018, hoping to help the Predators get a shot at the Stanley Cup.

When this effort failed, he retired again in May 2018.

He was set up with his future wife

In 2008, Underwood’s friend and bassist, Mark Childers, who knew Fisher, suggested that the two meet. However, Underwood wasn’t so sure about the idea.

“I mean, can I make dating harder? Let’s get a hockey guy who lives in another country. Great,” she recalled thinking in an interview for “MTV’s behind the music” podcast.

Reluctantly, she agreed to an introduction and decided, “We’ll put him in a meeting, because if he’s weird, I don’t want anything to do with him.”

However, the “Before He Cheats” singer didn’t find Fisher strange at all. Instead, she texted Childers to say she thought he was “hot, hot, hot.”

The pair exchanged numbers, but it would be months before they went on their first official date. On New Year’s Eve, they shared their first kiss at midnight.

By December 2009, they were engaged, and on July 10, 2010, Fisher and Underwood married.

He and Carrie Underwood have 2 children

Before he became a father, Fisher knew he wanted to be a good one.

“(Having kids) is something we’re really looking forward to,” he shared Tennessean in 2015. “I just think about wanting to be the best dad I can be.”

On February 27, 2015, he and Underwood welcomed their first child, a son named Isaiah Michael Fisher. They added another baby boy to the family, Jacob Bryan Fisher, on January 21, 2019.