I love country music and always will, but my voice went another direction! Country was 90 percent of the show, because a kid singing country music was a gimmick — it was very odd but it was a workable odd. When I signed with Sony, that was the last nail in the coffin, and variety kind of went out the window.
Country was the safety net, I guess. I was always too afraid to explore, because I knew that that was working. Then as I got older, I could tell my audiences were missing the variety, because I am and I think it seeps through.
You tell me what I need to do and we move forward. I wondered if [the judges] leave you when the cameras go off. No, they hang around, they give you their phone number, he was texting me at 2 a.
Gilman decided to record Stepanek's poems in song form, and several Nashville pros were commissioned to set them to music. Stepanek, was released in spring Everything and More followed in , and the eponymous Billy Gilman in , but Gilman recorded very little during the rest of the s and released no further albums. He did some charity work during the early s, including the collaborative single "The Choice" for a shoe charity, and also announced that he was gay with a YouTube video called "My Story.
During his blind audition, he wowed the judges with his version of Adele's "When We Were Young," and decided to join Adam Levine's team. Sign In. Listen Now Browse Radio Search. Billy Gilman. Top Songs See All. Albums See All. Billy Gilman Everything and More Stepanek Gilman began singing before he was in school, and gave his first public performance at the age of seven.
At the age of nine, Gilman was discovered by Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel, who helped him record demos. Gilman was then signed to Epic Records Nashville in He has a younger brother name Colin. He is openly gay and began dating Chris Meyer in He has released five albums, including three for Epic Nashville. In , Gilman auditioned for season 11 of the US edition of The Voice and competed as part of Team Adam Levine, finishing as runner-up for the season. In , he also appeared on the television special Twas the Night Before Christmas singing seasonal songs.
His first performance was when he was seven years old. He started cutting albums at age nine. His debut album, also called One Voice was released on June 20, on Epic Records, and was certified double platinum in the United States. It also cracked the main Hot chart peaking at number It also became a top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in Ranked on the list of most popular Country Singer.
Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United States. Billy Gilman celebrates birthday on May 24 of every year. He served six terms, from to
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