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Vince Gill Facts: Full name: Vincent Grant Gill
Birth date: April 12, 1957
Birthplace: Norman, Okla.
Hair: black. Usually, he keeps it longish, but in '96, he gave people a shock by cutting almost all of it off and growing a goatee.
Eyes: hazel with very long eyelashes
Height: 6 ft. 3 in.
Voice: tenor
Hat: no cowboy hats wears baseball caps
Label: MCA
Favorite clothes: dresses for comfort, favoring shorts, golf shirts, flip flops, jeans
Former jobs: played professionally since age 16 with several bands -- Bluegrass Alliance, Sundance, Pure Prairie League, Rodney Crowell's band The Cherry Bombs also a session singer and guitarist
Instruments: superb guitarist also plays banjo, piano, mandolin, fiddle and Dobro
Hobby: Golf. Vince dreams of joining professional golf's Seniors Tour.
Platinum albums: Best of Vince Gill (1989, 1 million)
When I Call Your Name (1989, 2 million)
Pocket Full of Gold (1991, 2 million)
I Still Believe in You (1992, 4 million)
Let There Be Peace on Earth (1993, 1 million)
When Love Finds You (1994, 3 million)
Souvenirs (1995, 1 million)
High Lonesome Sound (1996, 1 million)
These Days (2006, 1 million
Billboard Top 5 singles: "Cinderella"
"When I Call Your Name"
"Never Knew Lonely"
"Look at Us"
"Take Your Memory With You"
"I Still Believe in You"
"Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away"
"The Heart Won't Lie"
"No Future in the Past"
"One More Last Chance"
"Tryin' To Get Over You"
"Whenever You Come Around"
"What the Cowgirls Do"
"When Love Finds You"
"Which Bridge To Cross (Which Bridge To Burn)"
"You Better Think Twice"
"Worlds Apart"
"Pretty Little Adriana"
"A Little More Love"
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