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Born Roberta Lee Streeter in Chickasaw County and spending her childhood here, Bobbie Gentry brought the accents, sounds and images of Delta life into scores of haunting songs she wrote and records she made, to become one of the most influential country and pop artists of the 1960s and ‘70s. With her phenomenal Number One hit “Ode to Billie Joe” and complex, innovative albums such as ...
4. Apr. 2023 · Few know why Gentry disappeared, and even less know where she resides today. One report from nearly a decade ago stated she was living somewhere in Memphis, Tennessee, just a few hours away from her rural upbringing and the setting of many of her classic songs. Another claimed she was living her life in the security of a gated community in Los Angeles, California.
3. Juni 2021 · Bobbie Gentry was born Roberta Lee Streeter in 1944 in Chickasaw County, Miss. She was raised on her grandparents' farm and became interested in music when her grandmother traded one of the family ...
Bobbie Gentry, real name Roberta Lee Streeter, is a retired American singer-songwriter. Bobbie’s is notable because she was among the first female artists to compose and produce their material. Gentry’s fame came when she produced her Southern Gothic narrative. “Ode to Billie Joe”. The track peaked on Billboard Hot 100 for a whole month ...
27. Juli 2013 · From Wikipedia: Roberta Lee Streeter (born July 27, 1944), professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American former singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material. Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.
20. Feb. 2024 · Roberta Lee Streeter was born on 267 July 1942, in Chickasaw County, Mississippi USA, and is a former singer in the genre country music, one of the first female country artists who wrote songs themselves, usually accompanying herself on the guitar. From the early ‘60s, her songs regularly hit the Hot Country Songs as well as the Billboard Hot 100; her best known song is “Ode to Billie Joe ...
12. Apr. 2021 · Bobbie Gentry, born Roberta Lee Streeter, was raised by her grandparents in the backwoods of Chickasaw County, Mississippi.When Gentry was seven, her grandmother sold a milk cow to purchase a ...
