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After separate successful careers during which they each picked up awards aplenty, they became a duo in 2007 and began amassing International Bluegrass Music Awards (IMBA) each consecutive year.
Now they have topped 2010 by winning three more awards: IMBA Entertainer of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year and Album of the Year, "Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers.
" Like their two previous albums, the first self-titled, the second "Brothers From Different Mothers," it zoomed to the top of Billboard's Bluegrass Chart.
Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent grew up playing bluegrass with their families.
Dailey cut his eye teeth on the electric bass, then scooped up the guitar, the banjo and the upright bass.
After joining Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver in 1998, he moved easily between his instruments and singing both baritone and tenor as needed to help the band earn 13 IBMA awards and four Grammy and five Dove award nominations.
His many recording colleagues include Dolly Parton, Rhonda Vincent and Ricky Skaggs.
While working with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Dailey learned to be disciplined in business and on stage and to play in unison.
Chuckling, he adds that he also learned to rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.
Vincent shares the same discipline he learned playing with his family and as a member of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for the past ten years.
Like Dailey, he has performed and recorded on Grammy-winning albums with such artists as Emmylou Harris, Earl Scruggs, Vince Gill and Keith Urban.
In addition to performing, he is a successful producer and received three Grammy nominations co-producing two albums for his sister Rhonda Vincent.
Both trace their bluegrass DNA back to their ancestors.
Vincent's daddy's whole line going back three or four generations has a history of playing.
From the time he was three, he was on stage with his family.
He points out that musical families are like circus families.
His enjoyed playing together so much they would switch instruments depending on whoever could play the best or sing the best.
This is how he and Dailey run their show.
They delight in watching the surprise on faces in the audience when they aren't expecting them to pick up other instruments.
Dailey and Vincent met at an IBMA show in 2001 and were immediately struck by their similarities from vocal blend to their personal attitudes toward music, business and faith.
But they never contemplated a partnership until their duet of "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem" on a Christmas bluegrass album caught the attention of radio stations and quickly rose to No.
1.
Even though they were excited about the reception, they discussed and prayed together for several years over the consequences of leaving long-time colleagues before taking the plunge.
Three successful albums and multiple awards later, the happy results speak for themselves.
Next on the schedule is a fourth album with new songs by favorite writers and some of the gospel songs they love.
This tour allows them to stretch out and visit art centers and concert halls where bluegrass has never been performed.
Their goal is for everyone in this nation to discover the fun of bluegrass, country and gospel in duets and quartets and to find joy and peace in the music.
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