If you haven’t read the April issue of Reader’s Digest, get to your local dentist office and do so immediately. There is an up-close look at the life of Gary LeVox, the distinctive voice behind every Rascal Flatts megahit. So in a sea of reviews about the new album, Unstoppable, this story takes the back door in to reveal some things you probably never knew about LeVox. “As a kid growing up in Columbus, Ohio, I was moved by music. Whether a song was happy or sad, if it made me feel something, that was all that mattered,” he said. Then he talks about singing hymns at his grandparents’ house on Saturday nights, about maybe someday reaching out to his estranged stepfather and about getting discovered at Lonnie’s Western Room (a karaoke bar in Nashville). It’s a side of LeVox you rarely ever hear about. But the bottom line is, like he says at the end, “I have exceeded every dream I’ve ever had.”

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