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  1. Website. crystalgayle .com. Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb; January 9, 1951) [2] is an American country music singer widely known for her 1977 hit " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue ". Initially, Gayle's management and record label were the same as that of her oldest sister, Loretta Lynn.

    • Who Is Crystal Gayle?
    • Early Years
    • Hitting The Charts
    • Superstar
    • Continued Success
    • Husband and Children

    Crystal Gayle was born in 1951 in Kentucky. Gayle's older sister is country legend Loretta Lynn, and following in her footsteps, Gayle set out at an early age to be a musician. She released her first single in 1970 and landed her first No. 1 hit in 1976. "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" would soon make Gayle a crossover superstar, hitting No. 1 o...

    Crystal Gayle, originally Brenda Gail Webb, was born in Paintsville, Kentucky, on January 9, 1951. Her family moved to Wabash, Indiana, when Gayle was four, and her father died just a few years later from cancer. Gayle was the youngest of eight children. One of her sisters, already out of the house when Gayle was born, was future country music lege...

    In 1970, Decca Records released Gayle’s first single, "I've Cried (The Blues Right Out of My Eyes)," a traditional country song written by Lynn that landed in the top 40 on the country chart. The label was more than happy to have Gayle follow in her sister’s famous footsteps, and they released three more singles over the next three years, all of wh...

    Two years later, Gayle would find her way to No. 1 with “I'll Get Over You," and hot on its heels came the crossover smash "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," which hit No. 1 on the country charts and No. 2 on the pop charts. The album from which the hit came, We Must Believe in Magic, helped earn Gayle her first Grammy, for Best Female Country Voc...

    The 1970s were a career-making decade for Gayle, and the success she found with “Brown Eyes” continued with several more No. 1 country hits, including "You Never Miss a Real Good Thing (Till He Says Goodbye)" and "Talking in Your Sleep" (also a hit on the pop chart). In 1980, she landed at the top of the charts again with "If You Ever Change Your M...

    She married Bill Gatzimos in 1971 and the couple have two children. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2009.

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  5. Learn about the life and career of Crystal Gayle, the first country female artist to achieve Platinum sales of an album and the first to be inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Find out her Grammy, CMA, AMA, ACM, and other awards, as well as her honors and achievements in music, film, and television.

  6. Sep 22, 2014 · Crystal Gayle, the country-pop crossover star, talks about her life, career and family with Rolling Stone. She shares her memories of Loretta Lynn, her sister and rival, and her hits such as "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" and "Half the Way". She also reveals how she became a pop star and a pop-jazz hybrid.

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