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Apr 12, 2024 · Loretta Lynn. CIRCA 1975: Loretta Lynn performs onstage with a microphone circa 1975. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Born on April 14, 1932, to parents Clara Marie and Melvin Theodore “Ted” Webb, Loretta Lynn famously grew up in Butcher Holler, Kentucky.
- Dwight Yoakam
- Crystal Gayle
- Mary Travers
- Keith Whitley
- Lionel Hampton
- Bill Monroe
- Loretta Lynn
- Billy Ray Cyrus
- Don Everly
- Sturgill Simpson
Born in 1956 in Pikeville, KY, Dwight Yoakam is a popular country music musician that put Kentucky on the map. In high school, Yoakam participated in the music and drama programs, where he soon found his passion for performing. After briefly attending Ohio State University, Yoakam decided the classroom wasn’t for him, and he moved to Nashville, TN,...
Famous female country singerCrystal Gayle was born and lived in Paintsville, KY until she was four years old. After moving to Indiana, Gayle found inspiration to pursue a musical career in her sister Loretta Lynn’s music. She began singing in church and would record demonstration tapes in her teen years. Her first big gig was at age sixteen when sh...
Born in Louisville, KY, singer-songwriter Mary Travers specialized in folk music and was a part of the group Peter, Paul, and Mary. Travers’ career began when she moved to New York City in 1939 and joined the Song Swappers folk group in 11th grade. Peter, Paul, and Mary began in 1961 and broke up in 1970, shortly after their only number one hit rea...
A native of Ashland, KY,country singer and songwriter Keith Whitley has made a name for himself in music Kentucky is known for; bluegrass. While he was born in Ashland, he grew up just over 40 miles away in Sandy Hook, KY, where he attended Sandy Hook High School. Whitley’s wild childhood events of drinking bootleg bourbon and racing down dangerous...
Born in 1908, legendary jazz vibraphone playerLionel Hampton had humble beginnings in Louisville, KY. Hampton and his mother lived in Louisville for a short time before moving back to her hometown in Alabama. When Hampton was a teenager, he and his family moved to Chicago, where he began his musical career as a drummer for the Chicago Defender. Ham...
Known as an American mandolinist that invented the bluegrass music genre, Bill Monroe set the stage for the Kentucky bluegrass scene. Born near Rosine, KY, in 1911, Monroe was exposed to music early on as he and his family played instruments and sang regularly. Monroe and his two older brothers formed Monroe Brothers, which produced a hit gospel so...
Nominated 18 times for a Grammy and winning 3, singer-songwriter and guitarist Loretta Lynn was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Lynn married at just 15 years of age, which encouraged her to move from Kentucky to Custer, Washington. After her husband bought her a Harmony guitar, Lynn was inspired to start her musical career, writing about real-lif...
Born in Flatwoods, KY, vocalist Billy Ray Cyrus had an early start to his musical career as he began singing at age four. Influenced by bluegrass and gospel music by his family’s involvement in the genres, Cyrus’s involvement in music was inevitable, and in 1990, he opened for Reba McEntire. His debut album was released in 1992 and rose to number o...
Part of a country-rock duo called The Everly Brothers, Don Everly grew up in a musical family originating in Brownie, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. With parents that sang together, both Don and his brother Phil began singing at a young age. Don didn’t begin his professional musical career until he and his brother graduated from high school so they c...
Born in Jackson, Breathitt County, KY, singer, and guitarist Sturgill Simpson didn’t have immediate success in the music industry. Simpson moved around Kentucky with his parents, following his father’s work as a State Trooper. His parents’ divorce in 7th grade led him into a dark spiral until he enlisted in the Navy his senior year. After the Navy ...
Oct 21, 2016 · Sometimes called the “Cajun Hank Williams,” Menard’s “La Port en Arriere” (“The Cajun Back Door”), is considered one of the most popular Cajun songs of all time.
Apr 26, 2024 · This list of the top Cajun music bands in the world includes the very best singers and instrumentalists across the soulful Louisiana-based genre, with the order decided by fans worldwide.
This is a list of notable Cajun musicians, Cajun music instrument makers, Cajun music folklorists, Cajun music historians, and Cajun music activists.
Michael Doucet (born 1951) founder of the Cajun band BeauSoleil; Edwin Duhon (1910-2006), musician and co-founder of the Hackberry Ramblers; Cléoma Falcon (1906-1941), Cajun guitarist and vocalist, known for being the wife of Joe Falcon as well as being one of the first people to record Cajun music
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