Happy birthday to Ronnie Milsap! The singer was born on Jan. 16, 1943, in Robbinsville, N.C.
While Milsap has led an extraordinary life, his humble beginnings were anything but promising. Almost completely blind since birth due to a congenital disorder, Milsap was abandoned by his biological mother and raised by his grandparents until the age of five, when he went to the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, N.C.
Milsap s musical gifts were noticed when he was still a child, and he was learning to play the piano at an early age. The singer-songwriter attended Young Harris College but left before graduating, to pursue music full time.