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Dixie Chicks Biography

Dixie Chickscountry-music group The all-girl band from Dallas started out with a traditional country sound, but personnel changes and a more contemporary country sound earned them their…

The Chicks

The Chicks (formerly The Dixie Chicks) are an all-female trio whose 1998 album Wide Open Spaces made them, for a time, one of the top acts in country music. The group was founded as a quartet in…

Kitty Wells

Name at birth: Ellen Muriel DeasonKitty 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…

Price, Ray

country music artistBirthplace: Perryville, Tex.Born: 1/12/26

Clark, Roy

country music artistBirthplace: Meherrin, Va.Born: 4/15/33

k.d. lang

Name at birth: Kathryn Dawn LangKathryn Dawn Lang, going by the stage name k. d. lang, began playing with her band, The Reclines, in the early 1980s. She left her native Canada and began recording…

Vince Gill

Vince Gill left the pop/country band The Pure Prairie League and in 1984 got a recording contract as a solo artist. During the 1990s Gill hit his stride and had a string of hits, including "When I…

Dixie Chicks, 2003 News

country music band, faced unexpected backlash after singer Natalie Maines said during a March concert in London, “We're ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”…

Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks is one of the biggest crossover country music singers of all time. His combination of cheerful enthusiasm and pudgy boy-next-door looks was a consistent hit with both country and pop…