Legendary Beard Fact: Kenny Rogers’ facial hair is every bit as iconic as the country singer, having morphed from brown and bushy to silver and sleek over his extensive career.

Kenny Rogers started life in Houston, Texas, on August 21, 1938. He was raised in a poor neighborhood by his father, who worked in a shipyard, and his mother, who was employed in a hospital. He went on to become the first member of his family to graduate from high school. Young Kenny was interested in music from an early age. When still in his teens he joined a doo wop group, who called themselves “The Scholars”. He recorded his first single for a Houston record label at the age of nineteen, and from there his career took off.

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