04/13/2023
Graduated from my Alma Matter
A Northwest Classen Knight
Happy 66th birthday to Vince Gill! He was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and later graduated from Oklahoma City’s Northwest Classen High School. An award-winning musician, Gill has had a very successful career as a solo artist. Prior to his solo career, Gill played in numerous bands including Mountain Smoke, The Bluegrass Alliance, Ricky Skaggs’s Boone Creek, Byron Berline’s Sundance, and Pure Prairie League.
Photo dated 1991 (2012.201.B0274.0006, Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection, OHS)