Ronnie Milsap
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Ronnie Milsap Biography
Ronnie Milsap was one of the major figures of country music in
the 1970s, developing a hybrid of country and pop that brought him a
large audience. Milsap was born in Robbinsville, NC, and was raised by
his father and grandparents following his parents' divorce. He was born
blind from congenital glaucoma, and when he was five, he began
attending the Governor Moorhead School for the Blind. When he was
seven, his instructors noticed his extraordinary musical talents and he
began to study classical music formally. A single year after he began
learning the violin, Milsap was declared a virtuoso; he also mastered
piano, guitar, and a variety of other stringed instruments, as well as
various woodwinds. Eventually, he became interested in rock & roll
music and while still in school formed his first rock band, the
Apparitions. He briefly attended college in Atlanta where he studied
pre-law; though he was awarded a comprehensive scholarship, Milsap
decided to become a full-time musician instead. His first professional
gig was as a member of J.J. Cale's band in the early '60s.
In 1965, Milsap started his own band and four years later, after having
an R&B hit with Never Had It So Good, moved to Memphis to become
a session musician. There he frequently worked for Chips Moman and can
be heard playing keyboards on Elvis' Kentucky Rain and singing
harmony on Don't Cry Daddy. When not doing session work, Milsap and
his backing group were the house band at TJ's Club. In 1970, he had a
pop hit with Loving You Is a Natural Thing. Following its success, in
1971 he released his eponymous debut. Two years later, Milsap moved to
Nashville in hopes of jump-starting his flagging career and became a
client of Charley Pride's manager, Jack D. Johnson. Within a year, he
signed to RCA Victor, where he would remain for the bulk of his career.
I Hate You, his first single for RCA, reached the country Top Ten in
the summer of 1973. The following year, he had three number one hits in
a row -- Pure Love, Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends, and
(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time, a cover of Don Gibson's classic.
Milsap had a handful of Top Ten hits in 1975, but in late 1976 he
became a genuine star, with a string of six number one hits in a row.
In turn, that string of hits begat a remarkable run where Milsap didn't
leave the Top Ten for 15 straight years. During that time, he had a
number of pop crossover hits, beginning with 1977's It Was Almost Like
a Song. Between 1980 and 1982, Milsap had ten more consecutive number
one hits, including the crossover smashes Smoky Mountain Rain, No
Gettin' Over Me, and Any Day Now. Milsap had yet another string of
uninterrupted number one hits between 1985 and 1987, racking up eight
consecutive chart toppers. He had his last number one hit in 1989, when
A Woman in Love spent two weeks on the top of the charts. In total,
he had 35 number one singles.
In the early '90s, Milsap's commercial appeal began to decline -- after
1992, he wasn't able to break into the country Top Ten. Nevertheless,
he continued to record. In 1992, he left RCA and signed to Liberty,
where he recorded True Believer, which failed to yield any major hits.
Despite his decline in popularity, Milsap continued to record and
perform successfully throughout the '90s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Music
Guide
Written by Sandra Brennan