Optimum News 12 Newsday.com MSG Varsity Explore LI AM New York Optimum Autos Optimum Homes

Vince Gill

NASHVILLE, TN - MAY 20: Singer/Songwriter & Nashville Residents Dawn Sears and Vince Gill members of The Time Jumpers perform at The Music City Center Grand Opening Celebration on May 20, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Newsday's coverage

Around the web

More from around the web »

advertisement | advertise on newsday

About Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist, and a duet partner. Gill has recorded more than twenty studio albums, charted over forty singles on the U.S. Billboard charts as Hot Country Songs, and has sold more than 22 million albums. He has been honored by the Country Music Association with 18 CMA Awards, including two Entertainer of the Year awards and five Male Vocalist Awards. Gill has also earned 19 Grammy Awards, more than any other male Country music artist. In 2007, Gill was inducted into the esteemed Country Music Hall of Fame.

from Wikipedia

advertisement | advertise on newsday