Larry Gatlin

Over 40 years ago, Larry, Steve, and Rudy Gatlin started singing in their hometown of Abilene, Texas, and from there went on to make music history. Over the course of a four-decade career that has taken the Gatlin brothers from dusty Texas stages to White House performances, from Broadway to Grammy Awards to the top of the country charts, there has been one unifying element, music. There's no harmony quite as pure as family harmony. Gatlin harmonies spin with high and light precision and their music bleeds and screams of love and a lot of living. Beginning in 1993, Larry spent part of four successive Christmas holidays entertaining military personnel via USO tours. Those treks took him literally around the world, making stops in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Somalia and Japan. In '94, Larry's trip to Haiti made him the first American entertainer to travel for the USO to visit troops on that island.