Mickey Leroy Gilley (March 9, 1936 [1] – May 7, 2022) was an American country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, Gilley moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as well.

Mickey Gilley. Soundtrack: Tough Enough. Country western star Mickey Gilley was born on March 9, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi, the cousin of future rockabilly legend Jerry Lee Lewis, and raised in Ferriday, Louisiana.

Gilley has a biography, which aired on TNN called The Life and Times of Mickey Gilley. He had a theatre in Branson, Missouri, which seats 950 people where he played nine months out of the year. In Branson, he did six shows a week (Rogers).

Mickey Leroy Gilley was born on 9 March 1936 in Natchez to Irene and Arthur Gilley. He grew up across the Mississippi River in Ferriday, Louisiana, where his father operated a grocery, a taxi service, and restaurants, and his mother worked in a café.

2022年5月9日 · Mickey Gilley was a legendary country music star whose Texas bar Gilley’s Club was the inspiration for the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy.” Died: Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Who else died on May 7?)

Mickey Gilley - Legendary country artist. Born in Natchez, MS on March 9th 1936. Twenty Number 1 hits and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Mickey Leroy Gilley (March 9, 1936 – May 7, 2022) was an American country musician and singer-songwriter. He was a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart. He was best known for his nightclub "Gilley's" which was featured in the movie Urban Cowboy and his hit song "Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time".