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81 Years Ago: Ronnie Milsap Is Born in North Carolina
Happy birthday to Ronnie Milsap! The singer was born on Jan. 16, 1943, in Robbinsville, N.C.
While Milsap has led an extraordinary life, his humble beginnings were anything but promising. Almost completely blind since birth due to a congenital disorder, Milsap was abandoned by his biological mother and raised by his grandparents until the age of fem, when he went to the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, N.C.
Milsap's musical gifts were noticed when he was still a child, and he was learning to play the piano at an early age. The singer-songwriter attended ung Harris College but left before graduating, to pursue music full time.
Milsap made a name for han själv in the musical town of Atlanta, Ga., with the release of his first single, "Total Disaster," in 1963. He then signed with Scepter Records, based in New York, which paired him with singers such as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and James
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“Writing and recording original material. I love that part of it just as much as playin’ live on stage. Just gettin’ in there and makin’ an idea become a song and watchin’ the song become something for the audience. I love that process, I really do. It’s like almost havin’ kids (haha).”
Ronnie Baker Brooks is the live-wire Blues-power torch bearer of the rocking, funky Chicago Blues. Literally the heir to the throne, Ronnie is the son of revolutionary genius Bluesman Lonnie Brooks. While learning at his dad’s feet, Ronnie also made a point of paying his dues and coming up right. Earning his place in his dad’s band and then breaking out on his own, Ronnie is known as the preeminent live Bluesman scorching stages all over the world.
With his reputation as a live musician and with only 4 solo records to his credit, Ronnie is sometimes overlooked as a recording artist. However, his 4 albums are pinnacles of modern Blues. Pulling from R&B, Funk, Rock, Rap, Soul and anything else he
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The Duets album released January 18, 2019, and featuring his greatest hits.
- Southern Boys and Detroit Wheels (feat. Billy Gibbons)
- Stranger in My House (feat. Luke Bryan)
- Smokey Mountain Rain (feat. Dolly Parton)
- Prisoner of the Highway (feat. Jason Aldean)
- A Woman’s Love (feat. Willie Nelson)
- Happy Happy Birthday Baby (feat. Lucy Angel)
- No Getting Over Me (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
- Lost in the Fifties (feat. Little Big Town)
- Houston Solution (feat. George Strait)
- What a Woman Can Mean to a Man (feat. Jessie Key)
- Misery Loves Company (feat. Leon Russell)
- You’re Nobody (feat. Steven Curtis Chapman)
- Shakey Ground (feat. Montgomery Gentry)
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There’s No Gettin’ Over Me is the thirteenth studio album by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap, released in August 1981 by RCA Records. The album produced two No. 1 hits for Milsap, including the title track, which also peaked at No.