Randy Travis brought the audience at Sunday’s Country Music Hall of Fame Medallion Ceremony in Nashville to tears by singing a verse of “Amazing Grace.”
What made the moment so special was that Travis, 57, suffered a life-threatening stroke three years.
"Randy stared death in the face, but death blinked," his wife Mary Davis-Travis said. "A miracle stands before you."
Travis was honoured along with fiddler Charlie Daniels and Monument Records producer Fred Foster by artists like Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Kris Kristofferson and Alan Jackson.
Jackson recalled touring with Travis in the early ‘90s.
"When he sang, the women were screaming and fainting,” he remembered. “It was crazy.”
Brooks, who inducted Travis in the hall of fame, joked that he was doing his best “not to fan girl right now.”
Travis is the Grammy-winning artist whose hits include “Forever and Ever, Amen” and “On The Other Hand.”
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