Gill was born in Norman, Oklahoma, the home of the University of Oklahoma Sooners and learned to play several instruments, including banjo and guitar before he started high school at Oklahoma City's Northwest Classen High School. After he graduated, he played in a number of bluegrass bands. He debuted on the national scene with the country-rock band Pure Prairie League in 1979, appearing on that band's album Can't Hold Back. Gill is the lead singer on their hit song, "Let Me Love You Tonight" (1980), which he was still performing in concert years later - thus, he said, confusing many fans who knew him only from his subsequent solo work. Gill appeared on two subsequent albums along with his then-wife Janis Oliver.
Departing Pure Prairie League in 1981, Gill joined Rodney Crowell’s backing band The Notorious Cherry Bombs, where he met and worked with Tony Brown and Emory Gordy Jr., both of whom would later produce many of his future solo albums.
Signing as a solo artist with RCA Records in 1983, he first charted while on that label. In 1989 he switched to MCA Records where he recorded his breakthrough hit "When I Call Your Name." His 1998 album The Key received great critical acclaim. His other albums include Next Big Thing (2003) and Let's Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye (2000). The Guitar Slinger Songfacts says that Gill released his twelfth studio album, Guitar Slinger, on October 25, 2011 via MCA Nashville. It was his manager, Larry Fitzgerald, who came up with the title, as he felt there was something different the way Gill was playing the guitar on the record.
Gill hosted the CMA Awards every year from 1992 to 2003. In 2004 he received a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. In 1997, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
He married country singer Janis Oliver (of Sweethearts of the Rodeo fame) in 1980. The couple have one daughter, Jennifer Jerene Gill, born 5 May 1982. Vince and Janis separated in the mid-1990s and eventually divorced in June 1998. Vince later began dating and eventually married Christian/pop singer Amy Grant in March of 2000. They have one daughter, Corrina Grant Gill born 12 March 2001.
Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler was a fan of Gill's, and had asked Gill to join the band full time. Gill turned down the invitation but did sing backup on one song ("The Bug") from Dire Straits' album On Every Street.
Gill has also sung duets with numerous artists, including Dolly Parton ("I Will Always Love You"), Reba McEntire ("Oklahoma Swing," "The Heart Won't Lie," "It Just Has to Be That Way"), Amy Grant ("House of Love"), and Barbra Streisand ("If You Ever Leave Me"); his other credits as a backup vocalist have included "Girls With Guitars" by Wynonna Judd (written by Mary-Chapin Carpenter, who, coincidentally, had a country hit with her cover of "The Bug") and "Nothing Left Behind Us" by Richard Marx.
Look At Us
Vince Gill Lyrics
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Look at us after all these years together
Look at us after all that we've been through
Look at us still leaning on each other
If you wanna see how true love should be then just look at us.
Look at you still pretty as a pictureLook at me still crazy over you
Look at us still believing in forever
If you wanna see how true love should be then just look at us.
In a hundred years from now
I know without a doubt
They'll all look back and wonder
How we made it all work out.
Chances are we'll go down in history
When they wanna see
How true love should be
They'll just look at us.
[Instrumental]
Chances are we'll go down in history
When they wanna see
How true love should be
They'll just look at us.
When they wanna see
How true love should be
They'll just look at us...
Vince Gill's song "Look At Us" is a beautiful love song that highlights the rare longevity and strength of true love. The song is a tribute to a couple who have been together for years and have been through thick and thin but still remain deeply in love with each other. The repetition of the phrase "look at us" in the chorus emphasizes the idea that despite all the odds against them, the couple has endured and has set a great example of how true love should be. The song also acknowledges the beauty of the physical appearances of the couple and how they have remained attractive to each other.
The second verse of the song highlights the theme of believing in forever despite the challenges of life. The couple is still together, still in love and still leaning on each other. This is a testament to the power of true love and how it can withstand the test of time. The final verse is a prediction about the future, and it suggests that the couple will be remembered as an example of true love for generations to come. The song ends on a hopeful note as it states that they will go down in history as a couple that exemplified true love.
Line by Line Meaning
Look at us
Observing the couple in amazement and wonder
After all these years together
Despite the passage of many years, their love has not waned
After all that we've been through
Regardless of the many ups and downs, we're still together
Still leaning on each other
Supporting each other through thick and thin
If you want to see
How true love should be
Then just look at us
This relationship exemplifies what a true, lasting love is
Look at you
Still pretty as a picture
My partner is still gorgeous and stunning as ever
Look at me
Still crazy over you
I still get swept away by my love for my partner
Still believin' in forever
Their love will last eternally
In a hundred years from now
I know without a doubt
They'll all look back and wonder how
We made it all work out
Their love story will be remembered long after they're gone
Chances are
We'll go down in history
When they want to see
How true love should be
They'll just look at us
Their love will be remembered as an exemplary standard for future generations
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: CARLO MARCHINO, ROSARIA PARISI
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@jacobolouisa
My husband sent me this video.. 10/25/24 First time hearing this beautiful song 🎶 hit deep inside my soul… my goodness it has me crying while at work..
I love you so much
Jacob Allen Bittick
I’m truly blessed to have you ❤
Met in July 2018
Both got saved & born again in 2020
Married twice
Court 2/19/21
Church 4/3/21
God is good! AMEN ❤
@paulhughes8256
My wife and I met in math class in 1973. We became boy friend and girl friend January 11, 1974. she was 15 and I was 16. We got married in 1978. I still can't believe she picked me out of the box. 48 years later we are still together. She is breath to me. I love her so.
@chrisford416
Congrats I'm 35 been with my lady for 5 years now
@annamacrow3722
So good to see. We have just had our 49th wedding anniversary. It hasn't been roses all the time. But all in all, I love him and he loves me... both until the day we die. He is a wonderful man who has grown from am impatient 13 year old to what some would consider an old man. He had grown much more patient went I haven't. I rejoice to think we have made it from 1st year high school to being oldies. Love it.roll on 50 years anniversary
@lindalongoria3145
That's very beautiful.
@jacksonesperanza6950
My wife and I met in 1983 and of course we'd had our ups and downs you know and separated for about boxing movie 10 years and now we're back together and I still love her like if I barely met her God bless my wife Lisa Marie Presley Esperanza
@jacksonesperanza6950
My wife and I met in 1983 and we separated for about 10 years and got back together and now she's 63 and I'm 68 and we're still together we will always she will always be in my heart thank you Lord Jesus for my wife Lisa
@billpowell6665
My wife would play this song and we’d listen to it over the internet while I was deployed to Iraq in 2005. We had been married for 30 years at that time, and being apart was very difficult. But this song along with true love and the grace of God brought me back. Today, we’ve been married for more than 48 years. I think I’ll play it again at our 50th wedding anniversary. God Bless all those who still have their wives to celebrate with. 🙏
@alexinnocente6149
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@paulbrown8370
I went to Vietnam in 1970, i had no real Girlfriend to talk about then, that was the way I wanted it. I came home a few times, {did two tours to that country}. Six months after i got out, i met a girl and told a friend of mine i was going to marry her, 6 months later we got engaged and three months late we got married, now together 52 years and still going. I hope i can make it many more, if the good Lord will allow me. I now suffer from Agent Orange, had a massive heart attack and have an Aneurysm on the heart today, so i am living on borrowed time i guess you would say. If I had to do it again, even knowing what i know today of what the Gov't did to us over there, i would still do it all again.
@richardmoore2124
61 years old and I've never had a wife to celebrate anything with. God must really hate my guts