Michigan native Billy Strings reels in Grammy win for best bluegrass album Updated Mar 16, 2021; Posted Mar 16, 2021 Billy Strings, originally of Ionia County, Michigan, won Best Bluegrass Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, March 14, 2021. (Courtesy photo | Jesse Faatz) Facebook Share Fishing. Taking a call from his boat on Percy Priest Lake, just east of his Nashville home, Strings said Tuesday that the novelty of it all is still sinking in. “I’m still processing it,” said Strings, born William Apostol and raised in the Ionia County village of Muir, population 733. “It’s crazy, really. I’m 28 and I just won my first Grammy.”