Milsap's R&B recordings from this period are so obscure that the general public remains largely unaware of them. That same year, Milsap enjoyed brief popular music success with the song "Loving You Is a Natural Thing." He recorded and released his debut album, Ronnie Milsap, on Warner Brothers in 1971. During this time, Milsap worked as a session musician on numerous projects including two songs with Elvis Presley: " Don't Cry Daddy" in 1969 and " Kentucky Rain" in 1970. About this same time, Milsap met Joyce Reeves, and the two were married in 1965.Ī few years later, after moving to Memphis, Tennessee, he frequently worked for producer Chips Moman while performing weekly at the popular Memphis nightclub T.J.'s. A few months later, however, it became a million-selling single for Ray Charles. Another Ashford & Simpson tune named " Let's Go Get Stoned," was relegated to a B-side. It would be his only successful single during his time with Scepter. Milsap had a top 5 success on the R&B charts with "Never Had It So Good", a song written by Ashford & Simpson. By 1965, Milsap was an R&B artist for Scepter Records, recording eight obscure singles for the label and working briefly with other soul musicians like Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and James Brown. He released his first single, "Total Disaster," in 1963 which enjoyed some local success in the Atlanta area.
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In the early 1960s he auditioned for and played his first professional gigs as a member of J.
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Milsap was awarded a full college scholarship and attended Young Harris College briefly in Young Harris, GA, until leaving to pursue a full time career in music. Within the next few years he also developed a passion for rock and roll music and formed a rock band in high school named The Apparitions. Soon afterward he began studying classical music formally and learned several instruments, eventually mastering the piano. When he was seven years old, his instructors began to notice his musical talents. In concert, Milsap has often paid tribute to the artists who have inspired him the most including Ray Charles, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley. Throughout his childhood he was interested in music-particularly the late-night broadcasts of country music, gospel music, and rhythm and blues. Due to a developing blood clot, both his eyes were removed. During his childhood he lost his remaining vision. He was abandoned by his mother as an infant and raised by his grandparents until the age of five, when he was sent to the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, North Carolina. Milsap was born in Robbinsville, North Carolina with a congenital disorder that left him almost completely blind. He is credited with six Grammy Awards and 40 number one country hits, third to George Strait and Conway Twitty. Milsap's 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," among others. He became country music's first well-known blind singer, and one of the most successful and versatile country " crossover" singers of his time, appealing to both country and pop music music markets with successful songs that incorporated popular, R&B, and rock and roll stylings.
He was one of country's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Ronnie Lee Milsap (born January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist.
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