Rhonda Vincent
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Rhonda Lea Vincent (born July 13, 1962) is an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.Vincent's musical career began as an adult in her family's band The Sally Mountain Show, and has spanned more than four decades.
Vincent pioneered the bluegrass style in the 1970s and 1980s, earning the respect of her male peers for her mastery of the progressive chord systems and multi-range, fast-paced vocals characteristic to bluegrass music.
Vincent is a highly sought-after guest vocalist on other bluegrass and country music artists, including Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson, Tanya Tucker, Joe Diffie, and other notables.
Early years
Vincent was born in Kirksville, Missouri, on July 13, 1962, and he was raised in nearby Greentop, Missouri. She is Johnny and Carolyn Vincent's oldest daughter and the youngest of three children. Darrin is the sister of the Award-winning bluegrass band Dailey & Vincent. Brian, her younger brother, worked with the family company but she now works for Bimeda Corporation. Rhonda's musical career began at age five when she performed gospel songs with her family's band, which later became known as the "Sally Mountain Show." For her sixth birthday, her father bought her a snare drum. Vincent started playing mandolin at the age of eight. Fiddles were later added to her list of instruments at 12. "Dad used to pick me up after school," she explained in an Ingrams magazine interview, and Grandpa would come over and we played until almost every night. In Greentop, there wasn't much happening, but it was still hopping at the Vincent house." In 1970, Vincent released "Mule Skinner Blues," a spin on "Mule Skinner Blues." The family, as well as the younger siblings, who were old enough to play instruments, toured and performed extensively throughout the Midwest in the 1970s and early 1980s. Except for living in Texas for a short time in 1974 and two summers (1977, 1978) spent as musicians at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, the Vincent family used the Greentop area as their home base. Following high school, the Vincent children all attended Schuyler County R-1 schools, and after high school Vincent later attended Northeast Missouri State University, majoring in accounting.
Family life
On Christmas Eve 1983, Vincent married Herb Sandker. Although it may have been more convenient to be based out of a place like Nashville, Vincent decided to keep her Missouri roots close: "My husband and I made the decision early on." I loved being in my home town. My parents are there, and our relatives are there. We wanted to raise our children there. So I made the decision to commute." They owned and operated, a famous restaurant in Kirksville, Missouri, during a period of time in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In 2010, Vincent's elder daughter Sally wed her mother's fiddle, Hunter Berry, in Greentop, Missouri. In 2013, Tensel married Brent Burke, her mother's dobro player, in 2013. Sally and Tensel have since appeared with their mother and formed Next Best Thing, a new organization for their husbands.
Since 1987, Rhonda and the entire Vincent family have hosted a large annual bluegrass festival on land just west of Queen City, Missouri. The Sally Mountain Bluegrass Festival is traditionally held around the fourth of July and draws music enthusiasts from around the United States and around the world.
Solo career
Vincent’s life of music evolved into a successful career in bluegrass music after being discovered by Grand Ole Opry Star “Jim Ed Brown”, and later spending what she calls her musical college years recording for Giant Record. She learned about the music business from Nashville’s best like James Stroud, Jack McFadden, and Stan Barnett. Even while Vincent was still performing regularly with the Sally Mountain Show, she released her first solo album New Dreams and Sunshine in 1988. In 1985, Vincent had competed in the TV series You Can Be a Star on the original version of The Nashville Network. After winning the competition, she was signed to a recording contract; her first professional performance was with country singer and Grand Ole Opry star Jim Ed Brown. In the 1990s Vincent branched out into mainstream country music, releasing a pair of albums on the Giant Records label, but did not have success there.
With the release of her album Back Home Again in 2000, Vincent returned to bluegrass with the goal of expanding both the musical reach and the accessibility of the genre. The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) accorded her its Female Vocalist of the Year award for the years 2000 – 2006, plus IBMA Entertainer of the Year in 2001. The Society for Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA) designated her its Entertainer of the Year for 2002 – 2006 inclusive. She also performs with her band, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage.
On February 19, 2010, Vincent parted from Rounder Records, after ten years with the label. Vincent released "Taken", her debut album on her own label Upper Management Music on September 21, 2010. Featuring special guests like long-time friend Dolly Parton, Richard Marx and Little Roy Lewis, the album entered the Top Bluegrass Albums chart at No. 1.
On June 7, 2011, Vincent and country legend Gene Watson released a duet album on Upper Management entitled Your Money and My Good Looks. The album entered the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart at number 71.
Sunday Mornin' Singin', an album of old-time gospel standards, was released on July 10, 2012.
On April 1, 2017, Vincent's duet with a fellow country singer Richard Lynch was released as a track on Lynch's album "Mending Fences".
During an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry on April 27, Vincent announced that she and Daryle Singletary had spent the previous months recording a duets album, with further details to follow during CMA week. She then introduced Singletary and the two performed a couple of George Jones and Tammy Wynette songs – "Golden Ring" and "One".
It was her pivotal bluegrass album, “Back Home Again” on Rounder Records, that transformed Vincent into the All American Bluegrass Girl. She was crowned the New Queen of Bluegrass by “The Wall Street Journal” in 2000. She is a multi-award winner, with a 2017 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, an Entertainer of the Year 2001, Song of the Year 2004, and unprecedented seven consecutive Female Vocalist of the Year awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association 2000 – 2006.
Her powerful vocal style transcends the boundaries of bluegrass music, as evidenced in her collaboration with Dolly Parton on the Elton John / Bernie Taupin Tribute Project “Restoration” 2018. She was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry on February 28, 2020.
In 2008, Vincent's band performed at Centennial Hall in London, Ontario, at a concert organized by the Thames Valley Bluegrass Association.
In a 2011 interview with television station KTVO Vincent announced that she and her band had recently filmed a live all-gospel DVD at a church in her hometown of Greentop, Missouri. The DVD was expected to be released sometime in 2012.