Crystal Gayle
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Anne Murray
- 100% match to Crystal Gayle
20 June 1946, Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sometimes known as "The Singing Sweetheart Of Canada", Murray graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a degree in physical education, and then spent a year as a teacher. After singing simply for pleasure for a time, in...
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14 January 1937, Beaumont, Texas, USA. Discovered by songwriter Jack Rhodes, Spears' first record, as Billie Jo Moore, "Too Old For Toys, Too Young For Boys", earned her $4,200 at the age of 15. Despite appearances on The Louisiana Hayride, she did not record regularly until she...
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Loretta Lynn
- 92% match to Crystal Gayle
Loretta Webb, 14 April 1935, Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA. Lynn is a coalminer's daughter, being the second of the eight children of Ted and Clara Webb. She is one-quarter Cherokee and her name came from her mother's fondness for movie star Loretta Young. She was raised in a...
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Randy Travis
- 74% match to Crystal Gayle
Randy Bruce Traywick, 4 May 1959, Marshville, North Carolina, USA. The second of the six children of Harold and Bobbie Rose Traywick, this singer-songwriter shows in his style and delivery the heavy influence of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard. His father, a builder, was a...
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Tanya Tucker
- 72% match to Crystal Gayle
Tanya Denise Tucker, 10 October 1958, Seminole, Texas, USA. Tucker's father, Beau, a construction worker, and her mother, Juanita, encouraged her fledgling musical talents. Her early years were spent in Wilcox, Arizona, before moving to Phoenix in 1967. Her father booked her to...
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Juice Newton
- 65% match to Crystal Gayle
Judy Kaye Cohen, 18 February 1952, Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA. This singing daughter from a military family spent most of her childhood in Virginia. While completing a formal education in California, she fronted Dixie Peach, a country rock combo that was renamed Silver Spur for...
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Rosanne Cash
- 62% match to Crystal Gayle
24 May 1955, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The daughter of Johnny Cash from his first marriage to Vivian Liberto, Cash lived with her mother in California after her parents divorced in 1966. Perhaps inevitably, she returned to Nashville, where she studied drama at Vanderbilt...
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Dolly Parton
- 55% match to Crystal Gayle
19 January 1946, Sevierville, Tennessee, USA. Dolly Rebecca Parton's poor farming parents paid the doctor in cornmeal for attending the birth of the fourth of their 12 offspring. After her appearances as a singing guitarist on local radio as a child, including the Grand Ole Opry...
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Conway Twitty
- 54% match to Crystal Gayle
Harold Lloyd Jenkins, 1 September 1933, Friars Point, Mississippi, USA, d. 5 June 1993, Springfield, Missouri, USA. His father, a riverboat pilot, named him after a silent-film comedian and gave him a guitar when he was five years old. The family moved to Helena, Arkansas, and...
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