![]() Gill recorded his first Christmas album Let There Be Peace on Earth in 1993, before releasing When Love Finds You in 1994. Gill not only set a record for the most times anyone has consecutively hosted a televised award show, but he set the bar for other television awards emcees with his respect for his peers and the audience, quick ad libs and gentle humor. He continued to host “Country Music’s Biggest Night” for 12 consecutive years, ending his run in 2003. Vince Gill co-hosted the CMA Awards for the first time in 1992. 1 single, followed quickly by “Don’t Let Our Love Start Slippin’ Away.” The album also featured the hits “One More Last Chance,” “Tryin’ to Get Over You” and “No Future in the Past.” Gill also topped the charts with “The Heart Won’t Lie,” his second duet with McEntire, which was featured on her album It’s Your Call. In 1992 he released the quadruple-Platinum certified I Still Believe In You. The album featured four Top-10 hits – the title cut, “Liza Jane,” “Look at Us” and “Take Your Memory With You.” That year he also earned his first CMA Vocal Event of the Year Award for his performance with Mark O’Connor and the New Nashville Cats (featuring Gill, Ricky Skaggs and Steve Wariner). 3 and the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales of more than one million copies.ĭeclining an offer from Mark Knopfler to join Dire Straits as a full-time member, Gill went on to record his next album, Pocket Full of Gold, which also became a Platinum-certified album after it was released in 1991. The next single, “Never Knew Lonely,” peaked at No. 2 and earned Gill his first CMA Award (Single of the Year) and his first Grammy Award (Best Male Country Vocal Performance) in 1990. ![]() While the debut single “Oklahoma Swing” (a duet with Reba McEntire) reached the Top-20, it was the title cut that firmly established the singer as new force on the country music scene. Gill signed with MCA Records in 1989, reuniting with Brown as a producer, and released the album When I Call Your Name. In addition to performing as a solo artist, Gill also worked frequently as a studio musician, wrote songs for other artists and toured with Emmylou Harris. His debut mini-album Turn Me Loose (produced by Gordy) was released the following year, featuring his first charting solo single, “Victim of Life’s Circumstance.” The Things That Matter, his first full album was released later that year, featuring two Top-10 hits: a duet with Rosanne Cash on “If It Weren’t For Him” and a solo hit with “Oklahoma Borderline.” In 1987 he achieved his first Top-5 single, “Cinderella,” from his album The Way Back Home. In 1983, Gill signed with RCA Records and moved with his wife Janis and daughter Jenny to Nashville to pursue his dream of being a Country Music artist. both would later produce many of his future solo albums. Departing the group in 1981, Gill joined Rodney Crowell’s backing band, The Cherry Bombs, where he met and worked with Tony Brown and Emery Gordy Jr. In 1979, he joined Pure Prairie League as lead singer and recorded three albums with the band, the first of which yielded the Top-10 pop hit “Let Me Love You Tonight” in 1980. After a brief time in Ricky Skaggs’s Boone Creek band, Gill moved to Los Angeles and joined Sundance, a bluegrass group fronted by fiddler Byron Berline. While in high school, he performed in the bluegrass band Mountain Smoke, which built a strong local following and opened a concert for Pure Prairie League.Īfter graduating high school in 1975, Gill moved to Louisville, Kentucky to be part of the band Bluegrass Alliance. His father encouraged him to learn to play guitar and banjo, and he did, along with bass, mandolin, Dobro, and fiddle. VINCE GILL was born Vincent Grant Gill on Apin Norman, Oklahoma. ![]() He uses the crystal planes of his songwriting, his playing, and his singing to give us a musical rainbow that embraces all men and spans all seasons.” - Kyle Young, Country Music Foundation, on Vince’s induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame “Vince Gill is quite simply a living prism refracting all that is good in country music.
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