Ronnie Milsap
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Milsap on the 2016 "Gospel Greats" album
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| Birth name | Ronnie Lee Milsap |
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January 16, 1943 Robbinsville, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Genres | Country, blue-eyed soul, soft rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, keyboards |
| Years active | 1963–present |
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| Website | ronniemilsap |
Ronnie Lee Milsap (born January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. He became country music's first successful blind singer, and one of the most successful and versatile country "crossover" singers of his time, appealing to both country and pop music markets with hit songs that incorporated pop, R&B, and rock and roll elements. His biggest crossover hits include "It Was Almost Like a Song", "Smoky Mountain Rain", "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me", "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World", "Any Day Now", and "Stranger in My House". He is credited with six Grammy Awards and forty No. 1 country hits, third to George Strait and Conway Twitty. He was selected for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
Milsap was born January 16, 1943, in Robbinsville, North Carolina. A congenital disorder left him almost completely blind from birth. Abandoned by his mother as an infant, he was raised in poverty by his grandparents in the Smoky Mountains until the age of five, when he was sent to the Governor Morehead School for the blind in Raleigh, North Carolina. The school instilled independence and confidence in the young Milsap, though he and other students were subjected to physical abuse by several members of the faculty. Milsap lost the small amount of vision he had remaining in one eye following a physical assault by a school teacher. Both his eyes were eventually removed.
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