Rhonda Vincent

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Rhonda Vincent (2007)
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Taken
  US 131 10/16/2010 (1 week)

Rhonda Lea Vincent (born July 13, 1962 in Kirksville , Missouri ) is an American country and bluegrass singer and musician.

Career

She was born as the first of the two children of Johnny Lee Vincent (1940-2014) and his wife Carolyn Christine Thompson. Her brother Darrin Lee, born in 1969, is also a singer and musician in the bluegrass group Dailey & Vincent . Rhonda Vincent began playing the drums at the age of five in the Sally Mountain Show, a band her father formed and made up of members of her family. She learned the mandolin at the age of eight and took violin lessons at the age of ten .

She and her family performed at various country festivals on the weekends . When she was around 25, she got the chance to put her skills to the test in the program You Can Be a Star . This show was broadcast across America on TNN, and so began her solo career. Among other things, she recorded a song with Jim Ed Brown from the Grand Ole Opry and received a record deal with Rebel Records . Working with Jim Ed Brown and the albums released on Rebel Records, she received the attention of James Stroud , President of Giant Records in Nashville . This took them under contract. After two albums with Giant, she switched to Rounder Records. Her album Back Home Again , released there , clearly reflects her love and enthusiasm for traditional country music, with which she grew up.

Due to a car accident, Vincent was unable to attend a casting in Nashville as planned in December 1999. She found her current band via the Internet and named it Rage. In the meantime she has made a name for herself at various bluegrass festivals. With her rocking show and modern bluegrass songs she was one of the most prominent bluegrass artists after the turn of the millennium, alongside Alison Krauss and Laurie Lewis . The 2001 album The Storm Still Rages was nominated for seven awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association . In 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 she was named the best bluegrass singer of the year by the same institution, and in 2001 she was “Best Entertainer of the Year”. Since 2003, each of their albums has reached either number 1 or number 2 on the US bluegrass charts. With the album Taken , she also made it onto the Billboard 200 for the first time in 2010 .

Discography

  • 1990 - Dream Come True
  • 1991 - Bound for Gloryland
  • 1991 - Timeless and True Love
  • 1991 - New Dreams & Sunshine
  • 1993 - Written in the Stars
  • 1996 - Trouble Free
  • 2000 - Back Home Again
  • 2001 - The Storm Still Rages
  • 2003 - One Step Ahead
  • 2005 - Ragin 'Live
  • 2006 - All American Bluegrass Girl
  • 2008 - Good Thing Going
  • 2009 - Destination Life
  • 2010 - Taken

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: US chart history
  2. ↑ Bettina Granegger: Johnny Lee Vincent died at the age of 74. Obituary on countrymusicnews.de of October 7, 2014 (accessed October 6, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Vincent, Rhonda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincent, Rhonda Lea (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country and bluegrass singer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirksville , Missouri , USA