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Ronnie Lee Milsap (born January 16, 1946 (though
the internet, including Wikipedia, lists a variety
of contradictory years) in Robbinsville, North
Carolina, USA) is an American country music singer
and musician with 40 number one hit songs to his
credit. 

==Biography==
Milsap was born with a congenital defect that left
him blind. He lived with his grandparents until
age 6 when he was placed in the State School for
the Blind in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Milsap showed musical aptitude at an early age.
The school stressed classical music training but
he preferred country, gospel and rhythm-and-blues.
He released his first single, Total Disaster, in
1963 at the age of twenty. 1972 found him working
regularly at Roger Miller's King of the Road Club
in Nashville, Tennessee and he signed with RCA
Records in 1973. Milsap recorded for RCA until
1992. During that time he created five gold
albums, one platinum album and one double platinum
album. He also won six Grammy Awards and eight
Country Music Association awards including the
coveted Entertainer of the Year Award.

Milsap has recorded music with both Kenny Rogers
and Barry Manilow.

Ronnie and his wife Joyce currently make their
home in Nashville, Tennessee.

==Selected Discography==
*Where My Heart Is (1973)
*Pure Love (1974)
*Legend In My Time (1975)
*Night Things (1975)
*20/20 Vision (1975)
*It Was Almost Like A Song (1977)
*Only One Love In My Life (1978)
*Out Where the Bright Lights Are Glowing (1981)
*Lost In the Fifties Tonight (1986)
*True Believer (1993)
*Only One Love (1997)

==See also==
* List of best selling music artists

==Resources==
*"Just The Facts."
http://www.ronniemilsap.com/facts.html The
Official Ronnie Milsap Website. Retrieved Aug. 18,
2004.