I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

His father J. Gill was scheduled to appear at the 44th Annual Country Music Awards on Nov 10 2010. Gill received the 2478th star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 6 2012.

He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist beginning in 1983 where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist and a duet partner. Gill has recorded more than 20 studio albums charted over 40 singles on the U. Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill (born April 12 1957) is an American country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.