Kenny Rogers has touched many people with his music, and has also had an effect on bands that he was in because of his amazing music. He preformed really well for his fans when he went out on stage and sang his song. He played in a lot of places and all of his fans liked his songs. Kenny Rogers was very young when he first started to sing and play instruments.Kenny Rogers impacted country music with the amount of awards he won in his lifetime, due to his popular songs.
Kenny Rogers’s life was very busy from playing the guitar and singing. Kenny attended college, but ended up not finishing all the way through. A while after he meat up with a jazz trio band called the New Christy Minstrels. Later in his life, he made Mercury and started his
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Kenny Rogers was the first one in his family to graduate high school (Larkin, 2002). Throughout the years Rogers had won 3 Grammy awards (Gaydos, 2013). Country hall of fame first introduced Kenny Rogers, than a month later he won the Willie Nelson lifetime achievement award. Kenny Rogers best loved song is “The Gambler”, this song was a hit and two years later he made a movie about the song (Carlin, 2006). His movie is now on Netflix and is loved by both younger and older fans (Streeter, 2013). He won one of Africa’s highest awards (Larkin, 2002). Another one of Kenny Rogers many awards the honorary masters degree (Gaydos, …show more content…
Kenny Rogers played a lot of music in his life, and being in the church choir was his first experience with music. (Carlin, 2006). He then taught himself how to play the guitar. By 1960 he was playing bass and singing songs (Larkin, 2002). Now that Kenny Rogers is not singing any more he has taken up writing and released his novel called “What Are the Chances (Gaydos, 2013)
In his life Kenny Rogers has done a lot of good stuff with his songs. After the Minstrels, Mike Settle got a band together with Kenny and made a hit in 1967 to a song call “See What Condition my Condition was in”. After other hits in country music, Kenny Rogers started to make his solo career in 1975. In the 1990s, Kenny Rogers’s career started to slow down, releasing his new recordings in 1998 to show all his classical music. Kenny Rogers’s song “Lucille” was the song that put him on the pop charts, and then sang a duet with Dottie West (Carlin, 2006). When Kenny Rogers was younger he had a lot of hit songs, and then when he got older he started not to sing as much in concert. People still liked all of his songs and his movie “The Gambler” and many still remember all of his songs just like he made them yesterday. He has done a lot of good stuff with his singing and all of his songs means something different. Kenny Rogers is very remembered from fans because of his great voice and his very good guitar