1. Andy Griffith

Andy Griffith is one of the most beloved actors in American entertainment; although “The Andy Griffith Show” stopped production in 1967, the show remains on the air as a favorite of each succeeding...

2. Randy Travis

You know him as Randy Travis but he was born Randy Bruce Traywick on May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina. During the mid-1980s, a group of young performers changed the course of country music by recording...

3. Roberta Flack

Born on February 10, 1937 in Asheville, North Carolina. Roberta Flack was born into a musical family; her mother was a church organist and her father was a jazz musician. She grew up in Arlington, Virginia and...

4. James Taylor

James Taylor grew up in Carrboro, North Carolina, where his father was a faculty member and then Dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. James’s first music lessons were on the cello...

5. John Coltrane

John Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina; died on July 17, 1967 in New York City. John Coltrane is one of the most important–and controversial–individuals in the history of...
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2011 Induction Ceremony

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Inductee – Ronnie Milsap

Inductee – Ronnie Milsap

Ronnie Lee Milsap was born on January 16, 1943 in the Great Smokey Mountain town of Robbinsville North Carolina. Being born with congenital glaucoma, Ronnie lost his eyesight early and...
Inductee – Victoria Livengood

Inductee – Victoria Livengood

Victoria Livengood was born August 8, 1959 in Thomasville, North Carolina. The daughter of Jerry and Carolyn Livengood grew up on a farm in Davidson County and along with her brother,...
Inductee – Loonis McGlohon

Inductee – Loonis McGlohon

Loonis McGlohon was born September 29, 1921 in Ayden, North Carolina, died January 26, 2002. McGlohon was the son of an auto mechanic and a school teacher. As a boy, he was enthralled...
Inductee – Kay Kyser

Inductee – Kay Kyser

Which big-time bandleader and North Carolina native broke all sorts of attendance records, appeared in nearly a dozen movies, and became the top moneymaker in his field, all without...
Inductee – Charlie Daniels

Inductee – Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels was born in 1936 in Wilmington North Carolina. Charlie became interested in music and bought his first guitar at age 15. He taught himself how to play by listening to...
Inductee – The Chairmen of The Board

Inductee – The Chairmen of The Boa...

The Chairmen of The Board was formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1969. One year later, Holland, Dozier, Holland’s Invictus Records released The Chairman’s first recording, the million...
Inductee – Billy Scott

Inductee – Billy Scott

Leaving his native home of Huntington, West Virginia, Billy Scott joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in Fort Knox Kentucky, Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana, then honorably...

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Inductee – Maceo Parker