Willie Nelson
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04/29/1933
Abbott, TX |
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| Organized the first Farm Aid benefit concert in 1985. |
| Served in the U.S. Air Force for nine months after high school until a back injury earned him an honorable discharge. |
| Landed his first paying job as a musician in sixth grade and was invited to join the polka group John Raycheck Band. |
| Cofounder of Willie Nelson's Biodeisel, which markets truck fuel made from vegetable oil. |
| Won CMA Entertainer of the Year 1979. |
| The IRS seized all his possessions in 1991 for nonpayment of $16.7 million in back taxes. He has since settled the debt. |
| Was raised by his paternal grandparents during the Great Depression. At age 9, his grandfather bought Nelson his first guitar and taught him to play. |
| Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame 1993. |
| Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame 1973. |
