Before the 55 number-one hits and the legendary duets, there was just Harold Jenkins—a boy from Mississippi with a baseball bat in one hand and a guitar in the other. He was a professional athlete in the making until the draft changed his life forever. In the dust of the baseball diamond and the silence of a soldier’s barracks, a new identity was born. He didn’t become Conway Twitty overnight; he was forged in the fire of missed opportunities and the relentless drive to be heard. This is the raw, untold story of the man who had to lose his first dream to find his true destiny.
INTRODUCTION Before the 55 number-one hits and the legendary duets, there was just Harold Jenkins—a...