Billy Gilman

Only 11 years old when he notched his first hit single, Billy Gilman was the youngest performer ever to reach the Billboard country charts, breaking a record held since 1957 by Brenda Lee. Out of the charts for nearly a decade, Gilman made a big comeback in 2016, courtesy of the reality show The Voice, and quickly regained much of the fame he had earned as a pre-teenager. Gilman was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, on May 24, 1988, and grew up in nearby Hope Valley. He was singing before he started school and developed rapidly enough to start performing publicly at age seven. ...