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He also wanted to perform his own songs on the stage. And he began writing songs for other singers.

He soon got several jobs playing his violin. Stories say he would sing there for anyone who would listen. When he left the Army, Roger moved to the home of country music in Nashville, Tennessee.Īt first, he worked in a hotel. In Atlanta, he played with a music group called The Circle “A” Wranglers. He was sent to an army base near Atlanta, Georgia. Roger Miller entered the United States Army at the age of seventeen. These places provided him with a music education. At night, he went to music clubs and drinking places where country and western bands played. He worked at any job he could find during the day. He traveled from town to town in the West. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Roger left the farm when he was still very young. Music helped the young Roger escape the hard work on his uncle’s cotton farm. Much later, he learned to play the drums.

He also learned to play the guitar and the violin, sometimes called a fiddle. Roger began writing songs because he loved the music he heard on the radio. Most of his days were spent working on his uncle’s farm, picking cotton. Roger was sent to live with his uncle in Erick, Oklahoma. His father died when Roger was only one year old. SARAH LONG: Roger Dean Miller was born January second, nineteen thirty-six in the western city of Fort Worth, Texas. Roger Miller won a Grammy award for best new country and western artist

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