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Vincent is the grandson of renowned California painter Louise Noack Gray, about whom he wrote the song "One Last Ride On The Merry-Go-Round", featured on his "Don't You Know" album.

Vincent was a pitcher for the Berkeley High School Yellowjackets baseball team.

In 1995, Vincent was a participant in the California AIDSRide 2, bicycling 540 miles in 7 days from San Francisco to Los Angeles, raising money for AIDS care facilities. Also in 1995, Vincent took part in the In Harmony With The Homeless project, in which professional songwriters collaborated with individuals living in shelters on L.A.'s skid row.

A lifelong San Francisco Giants baseball fan, Vincent has performed the National Anthem live at San Francisco's Candlestick Park and AT&T Park before Giants' games, as well as at several minor league parks around the U.S. In commemoration of the Giants leaving Candlestick Park in 1999, Vincent wrote, recorded and released a special song/CD called, "Tell It Goodbye-An Ode To Candlestick Park". Vincent donated proceeds from the sales of the CD to the Giants Community Fund, which helps inner city youth. In 2010, Vincent released "It's A Giant Party" in commemoration of the Giants winning the World Series. The song was co-written by Tommy Dunbar of The Rubinoos. "It's A Giant Party" is scheduled to appear in an upcoming movie about the Giants.

Vincent's song, "5000 Heroes" raised over $40,000 for the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund, and brought commendations from former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Senator Bob Dole.

In 2003, he was the featured performer at the inauguration of then Nebraska governor, and current U.S. senator, Mike Johanns.

In 2007, Vincent was one of a select group of people personally trained by former Vice President Al Gore in Nashville, Tennessee, and is an officially sanctioned presenter of Gore's climate crisis presentation, as seen in An Inconvenient Truth. Vincent's version includes the impact diet has on the environment. In June 2010, Vincent attended the latest training sessions, taught again by Gore in Nashville, and sponsored by The Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project.

Vincent was elected to public office in Western Massachusetts in 2010 as a councilor on the Hampshire Council of Governments. He was re-elected in 2012.

In 2010, Vincent was a featured performer at the Hiroshima Peace Concert in Hiroshima, Japan, in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the bombing.

Vincent is an advocate for a plant-based diet, citing concerns for the environment, world hunger, personal health, and animal welfare. To this end, he was an official celebrity endorser of the California Healthy School Lunch Resolution (ACR-16), which asked schools to offer a plant-based lunch option on the daily menu. The resolution overwhelmingly passed the California Assembly and Senate in 2003.