Big Kenny Parents: Meet Bill Alphin and Mary Alphin

May 2024 · 2 minute read

William Kenneth Alphin was born on November 1, 1963, and is best known by his stage name Big Kenny.

Big Kenny is an American country music singer. He and John Rich comprise the duo Big & Rich, who recorded four studio albums and charted fifteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Before Big & Rich, Big Kenny recorded a solo album Live a Little for Hollywood Records in 1999 (although it was not released until 2005) and fronted a band called luvjOi.

He has also written or co-written several of Big & Rich’s songs with Rich, as well as singles for Gretchen Wilson, Jason Aldean, McBride & the Ride, and Tim McGraw.

His first solo single, “Long After I’m Gone,” was released to country radio on August 3, 2009, from the album The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy.

In 2010, his third solo album, Big Kenny’s Love Everybody Traveling Musical Medicine Show Mix Tape, Vol. 1, was released but did not produce any singles.

Big Kenny also took a stab at acting when he starred in the independent film The Frontier Boys by director John Grooter.

Big Kenny Parents: Meet Bill Alphin and Mary Alphin

Born on March 18, 1930, in Whaleyville, Va., Bill Alphin graduated high school and college before serving in the U.S. Army, following his honorable discharge, Alphin met his wife Mary at Virginia Tech.

The couple married in 1955 and welcomed four children throughout their 60 years together. A religious man, Alphin acted as a deacon at both Culpeper, Va.’s Culpeper Baptist Church and the New Salem Baptist Church, and served on the boards of the Rappahannock (County, Va.) Electric Cooperative and the Culpeper Memorial Hospital, as well as on the Culpeper County School Board and Virginia Farm Bureau Board. Alphin also ran the Farm Bureau’s Culpeper office for 20 years.

Big & Rich’s Big Kenny mourned the loss of his father, William M. “Bill” Alphin, who passed away on Wednesday (Feb. 1) at the age of 86.

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