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1. Mai 2024 · Kitty Wells (born August 30, 1919, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.—died July 16, 2012, Madison, Tennessee) was an American country music singer and songwriter who was the first female star of the genre. Deason sang gospel music in church as a child. In the 1930s she made her radio debut and took her stage name, Kitty Wells, from a Carter Family song.
Kitty Wells's career in country music celebrated women's perspectives and broke down the genre's gender barrier. The accepted wisdom of the time held that women don't sell records and can't headline shows, but Wells proved that they could and did. Her success led record companies to open their doors to other women, and to experiment with new ...
17. Juli 2012 · Kitty Wells, the Queen of Country Music, died at her home in Nashville Monday of complications from a stroke. She was 92. Wells was the first female to score a No. 1 hit on the country charts, and ...
2. Feb. 2022 · Kitty Wells changed country music forever, but even country fans may not know her real name. Wells was born Ellen Muriel Deason on August 30, 1919 in Nashville, Tennessee, as noted by The New York Times. She grew up in an environment merry with music, listening to the Grand Ole Opry and her father playing folk songs on the guitar. Like many ...
16. Juli 2012 · Pioneering female country singer Kitty Wells died today at her home in Madison, Tennessee, due to complications from a stroke, her grandson John Sturdivant Jr. told the New York Times.She was 92 ...
Wright died on September 27, 2011. Wells was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976 and was nominated for a 1989 Grammy Award for her “Honky-Tonk Angels Medley” with k. d. lang, Brenda Lee, and Loretta Lynn. In 1991, Wells received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, along with Bob Dylan, Marian Anderson, and John Lennon.
