From that day on, Ronnie and Joyce were family.” Many decades later, recalled Moore, “When he went into the Country Music Hall of Fame, it was Joyce who asked me if I would be part of it. There was a soul food restaurant across the street, and I sent somebody to get them some bologna and cheese, bread, enough so they were fixed up. I asked how she was doing, and made friends with Joyce right there! They were on their honeymoon, and they hadn’t had anything to eat, trying to get to the show. This little thing gets out, and I don’t even think they had rooms. “I was standing out back when this little VW pulls up they’re bringing Ronnie Milsap in and he’s blind and he’s white. He remembered meeting the couple when Milsap, who was working the chitlin circuit in the ’60s, got added to what was supposed to be an all-Black bill in a Black theater. Ray Charles was an early supporter, as was Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, who also has a wife and confidante named Joyce. (He took her up on it, and legendarily ran into an open car door, but that was no damper on the beginning of their nearly six-decade relationship. The story is told that, paying no heed to his blindness, she challenged him to a foot race, the irreverence of which delighted him.
RONNIE MILSAP SONGS U TUBE FULL
Ronnie and Joyce Milsap - Credit: Allister Annīorn in Douglas, Georgia, Joyce Milsap met her husband when he was a student at Young Harris College and about to accept a full scholarship to law school. Our hearts go out to Ronnie and their family at this sad time.”Īlthough the cause of death wasn’t announced, she had been known to be battling leukemia in 2014, when, altogether uncharacteristically, she missed the ceremony in which he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Yes, he was the superstar, but she was the woman who not only loved the man, but held him up so everyone else could see and feel their love inside all that classic music. “Ronnie and his Joycie were one of those inseparable couples who truly were one. “Country music might well have missed the soulful sounds of Hall of Famer Ronnie Milsap without the passion, acumen and love of Joyce Reeves Milsap,” said Sarah Trahern, CEO of the Country Music Association, which named him entertainer of the year in 1977. She was a supporter, a guiding light and a defender when something wasn’t getting done… and because he couldn’t see faces, she’d be that person for him, too.” Ronnie knew no bounds as an artist and entertainer, and Joyce was there making those connections, filling in any gaps.
“Even though it was always the dynamic Ronnie Milsap, Joyce was everywhere and a true part of everything. “I always thought of them as a duo,” said former Sony Nashville chairman Joe Galante, famously a champion of Ronnie Milsap over the decades.
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