Kitty Wells

Country Singer
Date Of Birth:
30 August 1919
Date Of Death:
16 July 2012
complications from stroke
Place Of Birth:
Nashville, Tennessee
Best Known As:
The Queen of Country Music

Name at birth: Ellen Muriel Deason

Kitty Wells sang on radio and at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry before recording her 1952 hit "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels." She became the first woman to hit the top of the country charts, and she went on to be the top female country artist for over a decade. In 1976 she was inducted into the Country Music Association Hall of Fame, and in 1991 she was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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