- Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash was an influential American country and rock and roll singer and songwriter. Cash was the husband of country singer and songwriter June Carter Cash. Cash was known for his deep, distinctive voice, the "boom-chick-a-boom" or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, his dark clothing, and demeanor, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black." He started all his concerts with the simple introduction "Hello, … - Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is a Platinum-selling, American country music singer-songwriter. In 2006, she had her first hit at the young age of 16, called "Tim McGraw", about a summer love. Since then, she has risen to fame as a successful teenage star and is also an Internet sensation. She won CMT's "Breakthrough Video of the Year" award in 2007 for her hit "Tim McGraw", and was also nominated by the Academy of Country Music for "Top New Female Vocalist". - Carrie Underwood
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American pop country music singer who won the fourth season of "American Idol". She has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist. Her debut album, "Some Hearts", was certified 6x platinum, and is the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history. - Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney (born Kenneth Arnold Chesney, March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer. - Hank Williams
Hiram "Hank" King Williams (September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter who has also become an icon of country music and rock 'n' roll, and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. A leading exponent of the honky tonk style, he had numerous hit records, and his charismatic performances and succinct compositions increased his fame. His songbook is one of the backbones of country music, … - Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967, Australia), is an austrailian country music singer. Two of his albums, "Be Here" (2004) and "Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing" (2006) have reached the Top 10 on the "U.S. Billboard 200" albums chart & #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Album charts. He has scored seven number one songs in the United States to date and a total of fifteen top ten hits, … - Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw (born Samuel Timothy McGraw on May 1, 1967) is an American country music singer who has achieved many number one hits on the country singles and album charts, with total sales in excess of 25 million units. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of baseball player Tug McGraw. His trademark hit songs include "Indian Outlaw", "Don't Take the Girl", "I Like It, I Love It", "It's Your Love" (featuring his wife, Faith Hill), … - Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated American country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. - Martina McBride
Martina McBride (born Martina Mariea Schiff, July 29, 1966 in Sharon, Kansas) is an American Grammy nominated country music singer-songwriter. - Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, … - Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Brooks' music was ubiquitous in the 1990s. He first became visible the year before the decade began with the release of his self-titled album "Garth Brooks" and was an immediate commercial success. Successfully integrating pop and rock elements into his recordings and live performances, … - Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter. - George Strait
George Harvey Strait, (born May 18, 1952), is an American country music singer. The native Texan is known for his honky tonk country western sound. Strait is sometimes referred to as the "King of Country" and some critics call Strait a living legend (Bego, 2001). He is well known for his unique style of western swing music. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Strait has been nominated for more CMA awards than any other artist. - Toby Keith
Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961) is an American country music singer-songwriter who has enjoyed commercial success throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Five of his albums have reached number one on the "Billboard" Top Country Albums chart, and he has had fifteen Number One singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts. In addition, he starred in the 2006 film "Broken Bridges". - George Jones
George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931), is an American country music artist known for his distinctive voice and phrasing that frequently evoke the raw emotions caused by grief, unhappy love, and emotional hardship. He has had more songs than any other singer on the country charts - 167 as of November, 2005. He has also had the most Top 40 Hits - 143 - and is second to Eddy Arnold with the most Top 10 Hits - 78. Over the past twenty years, … - Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist and songwriter. Emerging from prison in the 1960s, Haggard was one of the early innovators of the Bakersfield Sound. With his hard biting electric guitar, he almost singlehandedly introduced the electric sound to country music. By the 1970s, he was aligned with the growing outlaw country movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the 1990s and into the 2000s. - Faith Hill
Audrey Faith Perry McGraw, known professionally by her first married name Faith Hill (born September 21, 1967), is an American country singer, known for her commercial success as well as her marriage to fellow country singer Tim McGraw. Hill's "soulful and rasping voice" and talent for picking songs have helped her to sell over 30 million records and accumulate 11 number one singles on the Country charts. - Brad Paisley
Brad Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer, and songwriter from Glen Dale, West Virginia. - Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album "Come on Over" is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female artist to have three albums certified Diamond by the RIAA, … - Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (b. April 2, 1947, Birmingham, Alabama) is a country, folk and alternative music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous big-name artists. - Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15 1937 - February 13 2002) was a respected and influential American country music singer Jennings was born in Littlefield, Texas to Lorene Beatrice Shipley and William Alvin Jennings. He taught himself to play guitar at age eight, and formed his first band two years later. He worked as a DJ throughout his adolescence, dropping out of high school to pursue a career in music. During his time working as a DJ, he met and befriended Buddy Holly. - Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and one of the best-selling country music performers of all time. She was known for her lively stage-shows and pop-tinged ballads. She has issued 29 albums, with more than 60 million records sold as of 2006. - Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline was an American country music singer, who enjoyed pop music cross-over success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s. Since her death at the age of 30 in a 1963 plane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, revered and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century. Her life and career has been the subject of numerous books, movies, documentaries, articles and stage plays. - Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14, 1934) is an American country singer and was one of the leading country female vocalists during the 1960s and 1970s and overall is revered as a country icon. - Vince Gill
Vince Gill (born Vincent Grant Gill, April 12, 1957) is an American country music musician, songwriter, and singer. - Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is a renowned American bluegrass-country singer and fiddle player. She entered the music industry at a young age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time on her brother's album at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album at sixteen in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, … - Kid Rock
Robert James Ritchie (born January 17 1971), best known as Kid Rock, is an American rapper, singer and rock musician most notable for his albums "Devil Without a Cause" and "Cocky" and his hit singles "Bawitdaba" and "Picture." His backup band is known as Twisted Brown Trucker. Together, they fuse rap, hard rock, southern rock, country and blues. - Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is a nine-time Grammy-winning American blues rock singer, guitarist, bassist, and songwriter. Her music blends country, pop, folk, and blues rock into one mainstream sound. Crow is also a noted political activist who uses her fame to promote causes she supports. - Randy Travis
Randy Bruce Traywick (born May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina), better known by his stage name, Randy Travis, is an American country singer and one of the most influential figures of Neotraditional Country. - Buck Owens
Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr. was an American singer and guitarist, with twenty number-one hits on the Billboard magazine country music charts. Both as a solo artist and with his band, the Buckaroos (so named by Merle Haggard, a former bandmate), Buck Owens pioneered what has come to be called the Bakersfield sound-a reference to Bakersfield, California, the city Owens called home and from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American Music". - Leann Rimes
Margaret LeAnn Rimes (born August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American country music singer. Rimes' debut single, "Blue", was released when she was thirteen years old, and by age 24 she had sold over 37 million albums. She has won an American Music Award, two Grammy Awards, three Academy of Country Music Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards. She holds three important records in the music industry, … - Trisha Yearwood
Trisha hated smoke. But after talking to her and placing it in the right spot She let me use it and it made a big difference. Trisha is one of my favorites. - Trace Adkins
Tracy Darrell Adkins (born January 13, 1962) is an American country singer-songwriter from Sarepta, south of Springhill in northern Webster Parish, Louisiana. - Sara Evans
Sara Lynn Evans (born February 5, 1971) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Since emerging from the late-90s, Evans has become one of country music's most popular female vocalists, acquiring a few No. 1 country hits and Gold and Platinum-certified albums by the RIAA, like 2004's Restless and 2005's Real Fine Place, which are her biggest selling albums to date. - Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Scott Rogers also known as "The Gambler" (born November 10, 1964 in Savannah, Georgia) is a left-handed American Major League Baseball pitcher who has played for six Major League Baseball teams since his rookie year in 1989. Previously lauded only for his fielding and perfect game, he is currently the possessor of 23 consecutive shutout innings in postseason baseball. His career 210-139 win-loss record gives him a .602 winning percentage. - Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor. - Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus (born August 25, 1961 in Flatwoods, Kentucky) is an American country singer, and actor, who is best known for his hit single "Achy Breaky Heart" (1992). He is also a multi-platinum selling recording artist, with one number one country single and eight top-ten singles. From 2001 to 2004, he starred in the television series "Doc", a show about a doctor from the ranch adjusting to the large city. - Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer, songwriter, actor and businessman. He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone. - Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973) is an American country music singer and guitarist. Her debut album, "Here for the Party", topped the US country charts in 2004 and reached #2 on the Billboard 200 chart. Her two subsequent albums "All Jacked Up" and "One of the Boys" have also reached the top of the US country charts. She has won a Grammy Award for her music. - Ray Charles
Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson, a pioneering American pianist and soul musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues. He brought a soulful sound to country music, pop standards, and a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of "60 Minutes" called the "definitive version of the song, an American anthem - a classic, …
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