Vince Gill Biography

Fast Facts

• Founded The Vinny Pro-Celebrity-Junior INvitational golf tournament to help raise money for youth organizations in Tennessee
• Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording in 2012
• Was inducted into the County Music Hall of Fame in 2007
• In 2000, he got married to fellow singer Amy Grant
• With his father's encouragement, he learned to play not only the guitar and the banjo, but also the bass, mandolin, dobro and fiddle
• Played with a bluegrass band called Mountain Smoke when he was in high school
• Quote: "I don't remember a time that there wasn't music, or that I didn't have a guitar in my hands trying to figure out how to play it․ From day one, it seems like it's all I did․"
• Quote: "The purpose of being a good father is raising a happy kid․"
• First gained fame as the front man of the country rock band Pure Prairie League
• Launched a successful solo career in 1983, recording such hits as "When I Call Your Name․"
• His earliest memory of music is of his grandmother playing "How Great Thou Art" on the piano
• When he was 10, his parents gave him a Gibson ES-335 and a Fender Super Reverb amp for Christmas, which he kept into adulthood