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Country music (or country and western) is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, gospel music and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s.
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Amy Grant
Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her Gospel and Contemporary Christian music.
Grant made her debut as a teenager, and gained fame in...
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- Nov 25, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Bill Haley
Bill Haley (pronounced /ˈheɪliː/) (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets...
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- Jul 6, 1925
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- Feb 9, 1981 (age 55 years)
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Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who created, along with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded...
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- Jun 20, 1924
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- Jun 30, 2001 (age 77 years)
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she...
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- Jan 19, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), alternately spelled Aron, was an American musician and actor. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply ...
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- Jan 8, 1935
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- Aug 16, 1977 (age 42 years)
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter of Irish heritage. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became...
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- Aug 25, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at #2 in the US country album chart while climbing to #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. Brooks's...
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- Feb 7, 1962 (age 47 years)
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced /ˌlɛnərd ˈskɪnərd/ LEN-ərd-SKIN-ərd) is an American rock band, formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before three...
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- 1964
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a liberal political activist.
She has...
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- Feb 11, 1962 (age 47 years)
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Sherrié Austin
Sherrie Veronica Krenn (born August 28, 1970, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian actress and singer, known professionally as Sherrié Austin. Active as a singer since her teenage years, Sherrié initially recorded as one half of...
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- Aug 28, 1970 (age 39 years)
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The Band
The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group (1967–1976) consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson (guitar, piano, vocals); Richard Manuel (piano, harmonica, drums, saxophone, organ,...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Sep 1967
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts...
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- 1962
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. He escaped...
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- Jun 15, 1937
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 2002 (age 64 years)
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Bill Haley & His Comets
Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets (and variations thereof), was the...
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- 1952
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- Feb 9, 1981
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE (born 26 September 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is a British-born, Australian-raised singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100...
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- Sep 26, 1948 (age 61 years)
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John Denver
John Denver (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997) was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about 200 were composed by him. He was named Poet Laureate of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1943
Date of death:
- Oct 12, 1997 (age 53 years)
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Lester Flatt
Lester Raymond Flatt (born June 19, 1914 – died May 11, 1979) was a bluegrass musician and guitarist.
Flatt was born in Duncan's Chapel, Overton County, Tennessee to Nannie Mae Haney and Isaac Columbus Flatt. A singer and guitarist, he first came to...
Date of birth:
- Jun 19, 1914
Date of death:
- May 11, 1979 (age 64 years)
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Earl Scruggs
Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924) is a musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger style (now called Scruggs style) on the 5-string banjo that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Although other musicians had...
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- Jan 6, 1924 (age 86 years)
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Baby Gramps
Baby Gramps is a steel guitar performer, who, though born in Miami, Florida, has been based in the Northwest USA for at least the last 40 years. He is famous for his palindromes. Baby Gramps started performing in 1964 and is still playing...
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Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., CC, O.Ont (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music. As a singer-songwriter, he came to prominence in the 1960s, and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 17, 1938 (age 71 years)
Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946 in Elk City, Oklahoma) is an American songwriter. His compositions include "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston" and "MacArthur Park". His songs have been recorded or...
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- Aug 15, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Alabama
Alabama is a Grammy Award-winning country music and southern rock band that originated in Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. In the late '60s, Randy Owen (lead vocals), and his cousin Teddy Gentry (bass guitar, background vocals) found they both...
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- 1969
Eagles
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner.
With five number one singles and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful recording...
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- 1971
Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (born March 3, 1923) is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's...
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- Mar 3, 1923 (age 86 years)
T-Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry "T-Bone" Burnett (born January 14, 1948) is an American songwriter, musician and producer.
In addition to his solo work, Burnett has produced artists such as the BoDeans, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Counting Crows, Tony Bennett and K....
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- Jan 14, 1948 (age 62 years)
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Victoria Williams
Victoria Williams (born December 23, 1958 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American singer/songwriter and musician, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, although she has resided in Southern California throughout her musical career. She is noted for...
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- Dec 23, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to...
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- Sep 29, 1935 (age 74 years)
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Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning during 1954. His best known song is "Blue Suede Shoes."
According to Charlie...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1932
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 1998 (age 65 years)
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Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and...
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- Nov 8, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as as the lead vocalist and a lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career, releasing the 2007 album Raising...
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- Aug 20, 1948 (age 61 years)
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Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Jean Warnes (born March 3, 1947) is a Grammy winning American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her rich soprano/contralto voice, her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as...
Date of birth:
- Mar 3, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Glen Hardin
Glen D. Hardin (born April 18, 1939) is an American piano player, songwriter and arranger. He has performed and recorded with such notable artists as Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, Ricky Nelson and many others.
Hardin was born in...
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- Apr 18, 1939 (age 70 years)
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The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers (Don Everly, born Isaac Donald Everly February 1, 1937, Brownie, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, Phil Everly, born Phillip Everly, January 19, 1939, Chicago, Illinois) are brothers and country-influenced rock and roll performers,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1937 (age 72 years)
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Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was an English singer-songwriter.
MacColl scored several pop hits from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. During this era, she often sang on recordings produced by her husband Steve...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1959
Date of death:
- Dec 18, 2000 (age 41 years)
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Anne Murray
Morna Anne Murray, CC, ONS (born June 20, 1945) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer. Murray has performed in Pop, Country and Adult Contemporary styles. So far, her albums have sold over 54 million copies.
Murray was the first Canadian female...
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- Jun 20, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947; Birmingham, Alabama) is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she...
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- Apr 2, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival (often abbreviated CCR) was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums.
The group consisted of lead vocalist, lead...
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- 1959
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1972
Ray Charles
Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg, September 13, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who is best- known as organizer and leader of The Ray Charles Singers. The Ray Charles...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1930
Date of death:
- Jun 10, 2004 (age 73 years)
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The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Flying Burrito Brothers was an early country rock band, best known for its influential debut album, 1969's The Gilded Palace of Sin. Although the group is most often mentioned in connection with country rock legends Gram Parsons and Chris...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1968
James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer–songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina. He currently owns a home in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. A five time Grammy Award...
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- Mar 12, 1948 (age 61 years)
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The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band is an American band once based in Macon, Georgia. The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, organ), who were supported by Dickey...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Mar 26, 1969
Donna Summer
Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines; December 31, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music, earning the title "The Queen of Disco".
Summer was trained as a gospel singer before her...
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- Dec 31, 1948 (age 61 years)
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Jackson Browne
Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948 in Heidelberg, Germany) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. His political interest and personal angst have been central to his career, resulting in popular songs such as "Somebody's Baby", ...
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- Oct 9, 1948 (age 61 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1966
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular...
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- Apr 30, 1933 (age 76 years)
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an Italian-American singer, film actor and comedian. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", ...
Date of birth:
- Jun 7, 1917
Date of death:
- Dec 25, 1995 (age 78 years)
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Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 he was ranked 10th...
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- Dec 18, 1943 (age 66 years)
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Camper Van Beethoven
Camper Van Beethoven is an American alternative rock group. An eclectic band even by the standards of 1980s underground music, Camper Van Beethoven mixed elements of pop, ska, world music, punk rock, folk, alternative country, and acid rock.
Camper...
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- 1983
Jewel
Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974), professionally known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet. She has received three Grammy Award nominations and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide, and almost twenty...
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- May 23, 1974 (age 35 years)
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Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American popular music vocalist and entertainer. Her many vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career. As a result, she has earned...
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- Jul 15, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Los Lobos
Los Lobos ("The Wolves") are an American Chicano rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country music, folk, R&B;, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and...
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Hank Williams
Hiram King "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer and songwriter and musician who has become an icon of country music and one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century. A leading pioneer of the...
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- Sep 17, 1923
Date of death:
- Jan 1, 1953 (age 29 years)
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James Burton
James Burton (born August 21, 1939, in Minden, Louisiana) is an American guitarist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2001 (his induction speech was given by longtime fan Keith Richards), Burton has also been recognized by the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 21, 1939 (age 70 years)
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Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters. As a successful pop music performer, Diamond scored a number of hits worldwide in the 1960s,...
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- Jan 24, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Bobby Bland
Robert Calvin Bland (born January 27, 1930) better known as Bobby “Blue” Bland, is an American singer of blues and soul. He is an original member of The Beale Streeters. and is sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues". Along with such...
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- Jan 27, 1930 (age 79 years)
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Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), better known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music with equal conviction and power; and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis...
Date of birth:
- Dec 11, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Jimmy Buffett
James William "Jimmy" Buffett (born December 25, 1946) is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" (No. 234 on RIAA's...
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- Dec 25, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958 in Newnan, Georgia) is one of the most popular country singers of the 1990s, blending both honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. In his career, he has recorded twelve...
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- Oct 17, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
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- Jun 22, 1936 (age 73 years)
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David Allan Coe
David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939 in Akron, Ohio) is an American country music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his career. As a singer, his biggest hits...
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- Sep 5, 1939 (age 70 years)
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Hank Williams, Jr.
Randall Hank Williams (born May 26, 1949), better known as Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern Rock, blues, and traditional country. He is...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1949 (age 60 years)
