Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Lee Milsapis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth16 January 1943
CityRobbinsville, NC
CountryUnited States of America
I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released his great Sun records with Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on bass.
I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.
When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.
I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.
I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.
I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.
I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.
I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.
I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.
I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.
Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive someday.
Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.
I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.