Bill Monroe

Bill Monroe

male, deceased (1996)
William Smith Monroe developed the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's...
Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs

male, 55 years old
Ricky Skaggs (born July 18 1954, in Lawrence County, Kentucky) is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He plays...
Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss

female, 38 years old
Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is a renowned American bluegrass-country singer and fiddle player. She entered the music industry at a young...
Ralph Stanley

Ralph Stanley

male, 82 years old
Ralph Stanley (born February 25, 1927) is an American bluegrass musician. Stanley was born in Big Spraddle Creek, Virginia, near Stratton,...
Doyle Lawson

Doyle Lawson

male
Doyle Lawson is an American bluegrass musician. He was born on April 20, 1944 in Ford Town, Sullivan County, Tennessee, near Kingsport, the son of...
Earl Scruggs

Earl Scruggs

male, 85 years old
Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924) is a musician noted for creating a banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is a defining...
Doc Watson

Doc Watson

male, 86 years old
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, born March 3, 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina, is a guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country,...
Del McCoury

Del McCoury

male, 70 years old
Delano Floyd McCoury (born February 1, 1939 in Bakersville, North Carolina) is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band,...
Rhonda Vincent

Rhonda Vincent

female, 47 years old
Rhonda Vincent is an American bluegrass singer and an accomplished mandolin, guitar and fiddle player. She was born July 13, 1962, in Kirksville,...

Mac Wiseman

male
Malcolm B. Wiseman (born May 23 1925 in Crimora, Virginia), better known as Mac Wiseman, is a bluegrass singer, nicknamed "The Voice with a Heart"....