Randy Travis Stuns Country Hall of Fame Crowd By Singing 3 Years After Stroke

Randy Travis, a Grammy-winning vocalist who was inducted into the Nation Music Corridor of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, three years after a stroke threatened to mute his famed voice, moved the viewers to tears with a sing-along track of “Wonderful Grace”.

At age 57, Travis carried out another throughout the medallion ceremony, alongside fiddler Charlie Daniels and file producer Fred Foster, who had been additionally inducted.

The three honorees had been acknowledged by musical tributes from a variety of performers, together with Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Garth Brooks, and lots of extra.

Travis was acknowledged for setting a brand new benchmark as the primary nation musician to have a debut album (‘Storms of Life’) licensed platinum inside its first 12 months of launch.

He paved the way in which within the Nineteen Nineties for neo-traditional artists like Alan Jackson, Clint Black, and Brooks.

Mary Davis-Travis, Travis’s spouse, has spoken publicly concerning the six months Travis spent within the hospital after a viral sickness brought on a stroke.

“Randy stared dying within the face, however dying blinked,” Davis-Travis stated. “Right now, God’s proof of a miracle stands earlier than you.”

Daniels, the fiddler participant behind “The Satan Went All the way down to Georgia,” was acknowledged for his capacity to combine Southern rock, bluegrass, gospel, and nation into a singular sound.

Foster was the top of the highly effective Monument Data, which was instrumental in launching the careers of artists like Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Kris Kristofferson.

Foster produced Dolly Parton’s debut album, and Kristofferson carried out his basic “Me and Bobby McGee,” which Foster co-wrote and produced.

Through the ceremony, Hint Adkins sang “The Satan Went All the way down to Georgia” with fiddler Andrea Zonn, whereas Jamey Johnson did “Lengthy Haired Nation Boy”.

Jackson, who sang “On the Different Hand,” toured with Travis within the early ’90s, and he was in comparison with Elvis throughout their time collectively.

“When he sang, the ladies had been screaming and fainting, and it was loopy,” Jackson stated.

“I beloved it. Somebody singing actual nation music and having that impact and promoting all these information, it simply made me so pleased.”

Daniels stated, “A plaque on this wall is not only one other award or accolade. It’s a web page in a historical past guide. An endless historical past guide.”