Darrin Vincent, a third-generation musician born in Kirksville, Missouri, on December 27, 1969, grew up in his family's bluegrass group, the Sally Mountain Show, founded by his grandfather Bill and later led by his father Johnny. Joining the band at age two, he mastered bass, guitar, and mandolin as the Missouri-based group released its first album, Joshua, in 1975 and six more afterward. In 1986, Johnny Vincent bought sixty-three acres in Queen City, Missouri, for Sally Mountain Park, where he and Darrin built facilities and began hosting bluegrass festivals from 1987. In 1990, Vincent began working with John Hartford, then moved with his wife Julie to Smithville five years later and left Hartford in 1996 to join Ricky Skaggs Kentucky Thunder, performing at the Grand Ole Opry and gaining wide recognition in the acoustic music community. He met Jamie Dailey in Louisville, Kentucky, in October 2001, and after discovering how well their voices blended, they made their first duet recording for Christmas Grass Volume 2 in 2004, performing "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem." They decided to work together as a duet, gave notice to their previous employers in January 2007, and gave their first show together at the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium on December 29, 2007. Their debut album, Dailey and Vincent, was released in January 2008, and they quickly achieved major success at the 2008 IBMA awards, winning Entertainer of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year, and Emerging Artist of the Year, while their album was named Album of the Year and "By the Mark" won Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year. Dailey and Vincent continued recording and touring in the United States and overseas; by 2021 Vincent had received five Grammy awards, while the duo had also received six Dove Awards and three additional Grammy nominations. In 2013, they launched the annual Landfest in the Mountains festival, first in Denton, North Carolina, and later in Hiawassee, Georgia, with plans to expand nationally. Their Dailey and Vincent Show debuted on RFD-TV in May 2015, moved to Circle in April 2020, received multiple Emmy nominations, and in March 2017 Dailey and Vincent became the two hundred thirteenth members of the Grand Ole Opry, an honor they cited as the highlight of their careers.