Billy Gilman

Billy Gilman (born William Wendell Gilman III, born May 24, 1988) is a singer, country music songwriter from the United States. Gillman career as a singer widely known as a singer. She began her debut single "One Voice" in 2000 and through the Top 20 Billboard country music charts when he was 12 years old, who became the youngest singer to record through the Top 40 country music charts.


Musical career

On 10 September 2001, he was selected as the most awarded new country artist of Europe, became the youngest competitor ever to win the prize. He was also given entry into Guinness Book of World Records to become the youngest singer to reach # 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums.


He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for her debut "One Voice" singles and was nominated for Best Country Song for songwriters, Don Cook and David Malloy. In the same year, she appeared on the tribute album Country Goes Raffi, Raffi performs the song "Baby Beluga."


On 7 September and 10 September 2001, Gilman brought the song "Ben" on Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special in New York which was then broadcast on television. It was originally sung by Michael Jackson in 1972.


Gilman was featured on the album Welsh soprano Charlotte Church Dream A Dream, and released a Christmas album in 2000 titled Classic Christmas, which is certified Gold by the RIAA. In 2003, Billy released his fourth album, Dare to Dream, which was also certified gold, while his single "Elisabeth" and "She's My Girl" both fell short of the Top 40 on the Billboard country singles.
In 2002, Gilman took part in the reading for later Broadway-bound musical A Tale of Two Cities, where he played 'The Young Man', who is the brother of Madame DeFarge it.


Her last album for Epic, entitled Music Through Heartsongs: Songs Based on the Poems of Mattie JT Stepanek. These songs are based on a poem written by Mattie Stepanek, a poet with muscular dystrophy who died in 2004.
Gilman signed to Image Entertainment in 2005 to release his fifth album, Everything and More. A self-titled album followed in 2006.