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Bessie Regina Norris (December 21, 1953 – May 10, 2020), [1] [2] better known by her stage name Betty Wright, [3] was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and background vocalist. Beginning her professional career in the late 1960s as a teenager, Wright rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as " Clean Up Woman " and "Tonight Is the ...
Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) [2] is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13.During her career Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience; she had a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits. [3]
Excluding the Opry Square Dancers, who have sui generis membership status, there are currently 75 Grand Ole Opry members. Solo music artists make up 60 of the members, seven of whom have mostly retired from performing (Stu Phillips, Barbara Mandrell, Jeanne Pruett, Randy Travis, Ricky Van Shelton, Patty Loveless and Ronnie Milsap), but may make occasional appearances.
Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) [1] is an American retired singer-songwriter. She was one of the first female artists in America to compose and produce her own material. [3] [4] Gentry rose to international fame in 1967 with her Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe". [5]
Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950) is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead singer of the rock band Heart.. Wilson has been a member of Heart since the early 1970s; her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, is also a member of the band.
Charlotte Denise "Charly" McClain (born March 26, 1956) [1] is a retired American country music singer, best known for a string of hits during the 1980s. McClain's biggest hits include " Who's Cheatin' Who ", " Sleepin' with the Radio On ", and " Radio Heart ".
Angela Tomasa Bofill (May 2, 1954 – June 13, 2024) was an American singer, songwriter and composer of Cuban-Puerto Rican origins. A New York native, she began her professional career in the mid-1970s [ 2 ] and is most known for singles such as " This Time I'll Be Sweeter ", "Angel of the Night", and "I Try".
Leona Belle Helton (born January 7, 1943, in Vienna, Missouri, United States) is an American country music singer known professionally as Leona Williams. Active since 1958, Williams has been a backing musician for Loretta Lynn and Merle Haggard and The Strangers. (She and Haggard were married between 1978 and 1983.)