Vince Gill

Birth Name:

Vincent Grant Gill

Birth Place:

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Profession

Soundtrack, Actor

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
Played with a bluegrass band called Mountain Smoke when he was in high school
With his father's encouragement, he learned to play not only the guitar and the banjo, but also the bass, mandolin, dobro and fiddle
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

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