South Carolina H 4933: Terence Young, national music award

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2025-2026 Bill 4933 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 15, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4933

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A house RESOLUTION

TO HONOR SOUTH CAROLINA NATIVE SON TERENCE YOUNG, 
RENOWNED GUITARIST, BAND LEADER, AND MANAGER, TO CONGRATULATE HIM ON BEING 
NAMED MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR - GUITAR II BY THE JOSIE MUSIC AWARDS IN NASHVILLE, 
TENNESSEE, AND TO EXTEND TO HIM BEST WISHES FOR MUCH CONTINUED SUCCESS IN THE 
DAYS AHEAD.

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives is pleased to learn that celebrated 
guitarist, band leader, and manager Terence Young, a native of the Palmetto 
State, was recently selected to receive the coveted Josie Music Awards Musician 
of the Year - Guitar II award. Held in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Grand Ole 
Opry, the Josie Music Awards is the world's largest independent awards show in 
the field of music; and

Whereas, Terence Young 
started playing music at an early age. He took up the guitar at age ten, 
learning from several uncles who played gospel music in his small hometown of 
Elko, South Carolina. He started playing seriously in front of audiences at age 
fifteen while touring the quartet gospel circuit with his uncles in small towns 
and major cities throughout the country; and

Whereas, his uncles' 
gospel quartet also inspired Terence's love of jazz. After the young Terence 
heard the quartet play an instrumental of "Jesus Loves Me," he was inspired to 
do jazz versions of music. That early love of jazz has strongly influenced Terence's 
forty-year music career; and

Whereas, as a 
performer, Terence is one of the most talented and electrifying lead guitarists 
in the world, and he takes listeners on an unforgettable live-music experience 
infused with jazz and rhythm and blues (R&B). Best known for playing 
Prince's Purple Rain, Terence and his band, the Terence Young 
Experience, have shared the stage with Frankie Beverly and Maze, Roberta Flack, 
Gladys Knight, BabyFace, Charlie Wilson, Envogue, Morris Day and the Time, Al 
Jarreau, George Duke, Rachelle Ferrell, Gerald Albright, Clarence Carter, and 
Joe Sample; and

Whereas, further, 
Terence Young has played guitar for R&B singers such as Ashford and 
Simpson, Lenny Williams, Aaron Hall, and Angie Stone, to name just a few, and 
he has performed several times at the world's largest musicians' trade event, 
the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California; and

Whereas, Terence has 
not gone unrecognized. Over the course of his long career, he has received 
several prestigious accolades, most recently the Josie Music Awards' Musician 
of the Year - Guitar II honor; and

Whereas, 
appreciatively, the House takes great pleasure in celebrating the achievements 
of Terence Young, one of South Carolina's own. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

That the members of the 
South Carolina House of Representatives, 
by this resolution, honor South Carolina native son Terence Young, renowned 
guitarist, band leader, and manager, congratulate him on being named Musician 
of the Year - Guitar II by the Josie Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, and 
extend to him best wishes for much continued success in the days ahead.

Be it further resolved 
that a copy of this resolution be presented to Terence Young.

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