Terence Young, national music award

2025-2026 Bill 4933: Terence Young, national music award - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 4933
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Wooten, J.L. Johnson, Rutherford, Alexander, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bamberg, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Dillard, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Garvin, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Henderson-Myers, Herbkersman, Hewitt, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, McGinnis, C. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Oremus, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Sanders, Schuessler, Scott, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Waters, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Williams, Willis and Yow
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Introduced in the House on January 15, 2026
Adopted by the House on January 15, 2026
Summary: Terence Young, national music award
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

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1/15/2026

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House Journal-page 3
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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.

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

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

B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat 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.

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

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