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Vince Gill receives the Rotary Club of Will Rogers Spirit Award at the Cain's Ballroom on Sunday. Photo by: TOM GILBERT / Tulsa World
By KAREN SHADE World Scene Writer
Published: 11/9/2009 2:22 AM
Last Modified: 11/9/2009 3:57 AM
There’s nothing like doing what you love and being recognized for it, but country superstar and Oklahoma native Vince Gill views his most recent honor differently.
The singer and songwriter, who has earned 20 Grammy Awards — more than any other male country music artist — received the 2009 Will Rogers Spirit Award Sunday night at Cain’s Ballroom.
“This, to me, has so much more to do with me as a person than it does about me as a singer or a guitar player or a songwriter, just because of what it embodies and whose name is attached to it,” said Gill before the Rotary Club of Will Rogers 2009 gala. “There was not a more likable man in the history of our state than Will Rogers.”
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