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Mickey Gilley (b. Mickey Leroy Gilley March 9, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi) is an United States|American country music singer and Musician. Although he started out singing straight-up Country material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop music|Pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the Country charts, but the Pop charts as well. Among his biggest hits are "Room Full of Roses," "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time," and the remake of the Soul Music hit "Stand by Me (song)|Stand by Me". He is also the cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl McVoy and Jimmy Swaggart.
Biography
Early life and the rise to fame
By the end of the 1970s|70s, Mickey Gilley was already a chart-topping Country Music singer and musician, having a string of #1s and Top Tens. However, when the movie ''Urban Cowboy'' came out in 1980, Gilley was put on the map in Country Music, moving towards a more Pop direction, which proved successful for Gilley that same year.
He was born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1936. For many years, Gilley lived in the shadow of his cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, the legendary Rock and Roll singer and musician in the 1950s. The two as children grew up close by each other; Gilley lived just across the Mississippi River from Louisiana where Lewis grew up. Gilley, Lewis, and another cousin Jimmy Swaggar... read all
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