Vince Hill

Vince Gill is the complete country-music package: blessed with a crystal clear tenor, prodigious musical talent, and an uncanny gift for penning songs both poignant and clever.

It no doubt helped that his musically inclined lawyer father urged Gill—born in 1957, in Norman, OK—to learn numerous stringed instruments, including mandolin.

This led to his participation in bluegrass bands through high school, and in 1979, he joined established country-rock group Pure Prairie League.