The greatest recording artist to come from Rhode Island is someone who's barely even thirty years old! We all got re-acquainted with Billy Gilman in 2016, when he finished as the runner up on the TV talent show 'The Voice,' but those of you who are a little older may remember him as a fresh-faced child, somewhere around the year 2000. That's when he had a surprise hit with the country-pop song 'One Voice,' aged only eleven.
Gilman had been marked out as a child prodigy from an early age. According to his family, he's been singing for almost as long as he's been able to talk. He moved to Nashville to hone his talent and break into the industry, but that doesn't change the fact that he's a proud Rhode Island native by birth. Having bravely come out in 2014, he's also an icon among LGBT country music fans.