Pretty Little Adriana

"Pretty Little Adriana" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill.

The song reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, behind Brooks & Dunn's "A Man This Lonely" and it won Gill a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.

Gill was inspired to write the song after reading a news story about a 12-year-old girl named Adriane Dickerson who was shot to death outside a Nashville supermarket in 1995.

However, she goes on to say that the song boasts "tasty guitar work, a pretty melody, and, of course, Gill's signature vocals.

Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of November 9, 1996.