CMA Entertainer of the Year and four Album of the Year Awards. Creating a new way of recording (being blind his hyper-attuned hearing led him to create/build what is now known as RonnieвЂ™s Place, where the new album, the Duets, was captured), he broke genre rules and became one of the biggest pop/AC and even R&B artists of the late вЂ70s and early вЂ80s. While staying at the notorious Hyatt House, Charley Pride, a famous man in country music, saw the white kid playing rock & soul and suggested giving Nashville a try.ДЇorty #1s. Ronnie went on to work at the Whiskey for a good while.ДЇrom Atlanta, Ronnie moved to Memphis where he was doing sessions with Chips Moman, where Elvis famously commanded, вЂњMore thunder on the keys, Milsap,вЂќ during the recording of вЂњKentucky Rain.вЂќ It was there he was asked to play the Whiskey on the famed Sunset Strip in LA. Living in Atlanta, playing clubs and doing sessions the future Country Music Hall of Famer caught wind that JJ Cale was looking for a keyboard player. It was Ray Charles who told the young pianist when he was offered a scholarship to Young Harris CollegeвЂ™s law program, вЂњSon, I can hear the music inside youвЂ¦вЂќ Suddenly, he was sharing bills with Ray Charles (who took the Ashford & Simpson-penned B-side to MilsapвЂ™s Scepter single вЂњNever Had It So GoodвЂќ and scored his own hit with вЂњLetвЂ™s Go Get StonedвЂќ), and James Brown on a circuit that included the Howard Theater, the Royal Peacock, and more. There, Milsap discovered music вЂ“ deviating from the schoolвЂ™s classical curriculum to explore the nascent realms of race music, rock & roll and jazz. Born blind (his family thought it was retribution for sin), Ronnie MilsapвЂ™s grandparents gave the boy over to the North Carolina State School for the Blind hoping for a better chance.

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