Servers.The are the property of the respective authors, artists and labels, the lyrics are provided for educational purposes only, If you like the song, please buy relative CD. is a not-for-profit resource.Īll advertising proceeds are used to maintain its If i'm a few rungs short of the top of the ladderĮmail This Song To your friends | All Music News | Top Albums | Browse All LyricsĪnd are the property of their respective authors &, artists and labels. I give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay I'm not fooled by the glitter on the outside From the Book: Kevin Sharp / Measure of a Man. Luckily, I believe in what I preach.Lyrics: Kevin Sharp - Measure Of A Man Song Lyrics | Best Lyrics | Add Song | TOP 100 Lyrics Lyrics Begin: I may never buy me a big house, a Cadillac, cruisin with the top down, that aint the way I am. "If I didn't believe what I try to express and tell others, I wouldn't be here. "My life is performing and speaking, so not only does it keep a roof over my head, it keeps me going emotionally," he told Phyllis Stark of Country Weekly magazine in 2012. Still, he worked to spread his hopeful message whenever possible. Sharp's health worsened in 2011, and he endured numerous surgeries for leg infections. His 2005 album for Cupit Records was entitled Make a Wish. But his time in the country music spotlight made him a role model for sick children, and he shared his life story in a book called Tragedy's Gift, at concerts, at public speaking engagements and during numerous visits with cancer patients. Sharp's follow-up recordings did not perform as well as his initial offerings, and he struggled with health issues, undergoing emergency surgeries in 19. He also won the Country Music Association's New Touring Artist prize, but took greater pride in an award he received from Make-A-Wish as 1997's "Wish Granter of the Year." Follow-ups She's Sure Taking it Well and If You Love Somebody, each from his first album, Measure of a Man, were top 5 hits, and Sharp was nominated as best new male vocalist by the Academy of Country Music. Released in 1995, his initial single, Nobody Knows, climbed to the top of the Billboard country charts and stayed there for a month. He began writing songs and recording them, and ultimately Foster - who had kept up with the young singer's progress - helped Sharp to a recording contract with Asylum Records. Watch Video: Kevin Sharp gave us more than just country hits Months later, doctors told Sharp that he'd beaten the cancer. Soon, Sharp was in Foster's studio, attending a recording session and talking with Foster. This realization was troubling, but not so much that he didn't quickly give her the name of David Foster, who produced his favorite band, Chicago. Sharp realized that the Make-A-Wish foundation granted wishes to kids with life-threatening medical conditions, and he surmised that the woman thought that perhaps he was going to die. You give me the name and we'll do everything possible to make it happen.' " " 'I'm from the Make-A-Wish foundation,' she said. "Four months into this new treatment, a woman I'd never seen before came to my bedside in the hospital," Sharp wrote, in a 2006 story for Guideposts magazine.
The cause of that pain turned out to be bone cancer, and after graduation he began experimental, debilitating chemotherapy and radiation treatments. A high school football and basketball player, he sat out his senior seasons in both sports due to pain in his left leg. Singer Kevin Sharp, a country music hitmaker who became an unwearying advocate for children with chronic diseases, died Saturday at age 43.Īccording to the artist's website, Sharp died of complications from "ongoing complications from past stomach surgeries and digestive issues."īorn in Redding, Calif., Sharp grew up obsessed with sports and music. View Gallery: Photos: Musicians we lost in 2014
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