Name	Ricky Skaggs (Richard Lee "Ricky" Skaggs)
Age	55
Build	Average
Hair Color	Brown - Light
Date of Birth	July 18, 1954
Birthplace	Kentucky
Star Sign	Cancer
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
Occupation	Country Musician
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Quotes

I hate negative songs; I won`t sing them. It doesn`t matter if it`s sold 2 million more albums.

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I`m not a goody-two-shoes. I`m just a father with four children.

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Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don`t look at it as an art form. They think it`s just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

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It`s part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There`s so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

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Country`s hip; it`s cool music.

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I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

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That`s kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people`s hearts.

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Maybe you`re going to a concert thinking you`re not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you`re carrying around with you that you didn`t think you were going to hear about.

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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

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That`s the good thing about what we`re doing playing bluegrass. It doesn`t matter one way or the other whether country radio plays it or not.

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Trivia

Skaggs later joined J. D. Crowe`s New South. For a few years, Skaggs was a member of Emmylou Harris`s Hot Band.

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In his mid-teens, Skaggs met a fellow teen prodigy, fiddler Keith Whitley, and the two started playing together with Whitley`s banjoist brother Dwight on radio shows.

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Ricky Skaggs started playing music after he was given a mandolin by his father. At age 6.

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Is a Grammy-winning country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He plays fiddle, guitar, banjo, and, primarily, mandolin.

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Was already an accomplished singer and mandolin player by the time he reached his teens.

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Has a band called Kentucky Thunder.

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Son-in-law of Buck White.

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Spouse: Sharon White (4 August 1981 - present) 2 children

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Born in Cordell, Kentucky, July 18, 1954.

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