Vince Gill to Receive Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

He's already enshrined in the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and now multiple Grammy winner Vince Gill will also be among the entertainers with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Vince's star, which will be unveiled in 2012, joins other new honorees including actors Jennifer Aniston, Kate Winslet, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lopez and Adam West, music legends Barry White, Hal David, David Foster and Heart, along with 'Simpsons' creator Matt Groening.

The Gills will be a two-star household. Vince's wife, singer Amy Grant, received her Walk of Fame star in 2006. "I got to go out there and experience that with her says the Oklahoma native. "When I found out that I would be getting one too, I said, 'If you could just put it next to Amy's that would be awesome.'"

Born in Oklahoma City, when Vince was 19, he moved to Los Angeles, living there from 1976 until 1983. "It was one of the best times in my life," he recalls. "I have a great fondness for it. When I lived out there, I was such a young person that I hadn't really accomplished much of anything. So even the thought of one day having a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was preposterous. It was silly. It wasn't even in the realm of my thinking. I walked up and down Hollywood Boulevard and said, 'There's so-and-so.' I never thought for one second, "I will have one of these one day.'"

Vince says that during his time in L.A., he encountered many of the musicians he had admired while growing up. "It seemed to me that everybody I was really nuts about was out there. It was mind-numbing to me who I could go hear play. Those guys I had seen on the back of record jackets were playing in the clubs."

Vince also marvels at the first time he performed in Los Angeles, at the famed Troubadour nightclub. He was in a band called Sundance, a bluegrass group fronted by Byron Berline, opening for singer-songwriter Guy Clark . "It turns out Emmylou Harris was there, and Rodney Crowell and Guy Clark. All of these people that I had no idea how they would shape my future. There they were right off the bat, and we hit it off. I don't think I could have found a better place to go at that age. It would have been a much better situation for me than coming to Nashville at that time. It was really an amazing place to be."

The future writer behind such iconic hits as 'When I Call Your Name,' first began writing songs while living in Los Angeles. "I was a seriously struggling musician," he notes. "So I was also out there playing on the Redondo Beach for tips and borrowing cars to get around in and first getting my feet under me. The scale of that place was so much bigger than anything I could have ever imagined -- miles and miles of people and freeways and oceans and mountains. It was insane. I had never been to a place that big. It was a wild time, I assure you."

Vince moved to Nashville in 1983 and signed with RCA Records. To date, he has sold more than 26 million albums and won 20 Grammys and 18 CMA Awards. Later this summer, he'll release 'Threaten Me With Heaven,' his first new single in four years and the lead-off single from his new album, 'Guitar Slinger,' which will follow in the fall.