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Date of Birth
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26-March-1942
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Place of Birth
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Pensacola
(Escambia County, Florida, United States of America, 32501)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Profession
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Songwriter, Record producer
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Larry Butler was a country music producer/songwriter. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, he worked with Kenny Rogers. Many of his albums with Rogers went either gold or platinum and accumulated many millions of sales around the world. These albums include Kenny Rogers, The Gambler, Gideon and I Prefer The Moonlight. Rogers and Butler maintained a friendship outside of show business. Butler also produced Rogers' 1993 album If Only My Heart Had A Voice. He also participated in Rogers 2006 retrospective DVD The Journey.
Butler is the only Nashville producer to win the Grammy Award for Producer of the year.
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