Melvin Lee Greenwood was born on October 27,1942 and is an American country music singer-songwriter.
15 Facts About Lee Greenwood
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Lee Greenwood was born in South Gate, California, a few miles south of Los Angeles.
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Lee Greenwood founded his first band, The Apollos, in 1962.
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The band, which changed its name later to Lee Greenwood Affair, played mostly pop music and appeared mostly in casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Lee Greenwood is well known for his meet and greets at Hy-Vee grocery stores.
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Lee Greenwood is known for writing and recording "God Bless the USA" in the early 1980s, and later "God Bless You Canada".
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Since then, Lee Greenwood has played across the US, at many public events and commemorations of the attacks.
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Lee Greenwood performed for Marsha Blackburn after her victory in her Senate election.
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On May 19,2018, Lee Greenwood was awarded the MMP Music Award for his lifelong contribution to the music industry and inducted into the MMP Hall of Fame by Commander Joseph W Clark.
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In September 2008, President George W Bush nominated Greenwood to succeed Makoto Fujimura for a six-year term to the National Council on the Arts expiring in 2014.
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Lee Greenwood was confirmed by the Senate via voice vote in October 2008.
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In September 2021, Lee Greenwood told Fox and Friends that the Biden administration sent him an email informing him that the president had already nominated his replacement on the National Council on the Arts and expressed his "shock" at being replaced.
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In 1995, Lee Greenwood took a break from his touring schedule to spend more time with his family.
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The theater operated for five seasons, and closed for Lee Greenwood to continue touring.
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Lee Greenwood is married to former Miss Tennessee USA Kimberly Payne, his fourth marriage.