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Between football seasons, Reid would perform as a pianist for the Utah Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. During this time, he met Larry Gatlin (a member of country music group The Gatlin Brothers), who helped Reid start his songwriting career. In 1984, he won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song with "Stranger in My House", which was recorded by Ronnie Milsap. Reid would ... work with Marie Osmond, Tanya Tucker, Collin Raye, Alabama and Conway Twitty. In the 1980s and 1990s, Reid wrote twelve number one hits. [2]
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Most musicians would be thrilled if their very first single went to No. 1, but Mike Reid, at age 43, is taking it in stride. The singer's easygoing country chart topper ''Walk on Faith'' may be from his briskly selling debut album, Turning for Home, but Reid knows how quickly the tables can turn. He was an All-Pro linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals in the early '70s before he burned out on the game, and he was a successful songwriter, most prominently for country singer Ronnie Milsap in the early '80s, before that relationship soured. ''As an athlete,'' Reid says in a deep, magisterial voice, ''I saw that success had destroyed more talented and successful people than me.'' Reid, who lives in Nashville with his wife and two young children, considers songwriting a ''blue-collar profession'' and calls himself ''terminally unhip.'' He hopes that his songs ''articulate the everyday experience in people's lives-to say to people, on some level, that their lives are important.'' -Ron Givens
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Reid retired after the 1974 season to pursue a career in music. An accomplished concert pianist, he began writing and performing country and western music in 1979 and won a Grammy Award in 1984 for his song "Stranger in My House."
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