Johnny Lee ~ Similar Artists

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Mickey Gilley - 99% match to Johnny Lee

9 March 1936, Natchez, Louisiana, USA, but raised in Ferriday, Louisiana. Gilley is a cousin to Jerry Lee Lewis and the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. He grew up with his cousins and his mother, a waitress, who saved her money to buy him a piano when he was 12 years old. Gilley left... Read more

Ronnie Milsap - 90% match to Johnny Lee

Ronnie Lee Millsaps, 16 January 1943, Robbinsville, North Carolina, USA. Milsap's mother had already experienced a stillbirth and the prospect of raising a blind child made her mentally unstable. Milsap's father took him to live with his grandparents and divorced his mother.... Read more

Don Williams - 83% match to Johnny Lee

27 May 1939, Floydada, Texas, USA. Williams' father was a mechanic whose job took him to other regions and much of his childhood was spent in Corpus Christi, Texas. Williams' mother played guitar and he grew up listening to country music. He and Lofton Kline formed a... Read more

Steve Wariner - 82% match to Johnny Lee

25 December 1954, Noblesville, Indiana, USA. Wariner played in his father's country group from the age of 10. One night he had a residency at a club near Indianapolis and the starring attraction, Dottie West, went on stage to harmonize with him. He then played bass for West and... Read more

T.G. Sheppard - 79% match to Johnny Lee

William Neal Browder, 20 July 1944, Humboldt, Tennessee, USA. Sheppard is a nephew of old-time country performer Rod Brasfield, and his mother was a piano teacher who gave him lessons. Sheppard began his professional musical career in Memphis in the early 60s, working as a... Read more

Earl Thomas Conley - 76% match to Johnny Lee

17 October 1941, Portsmouth, Ohio, USA. The son of a railway worker, Conley left home at 14 when his father lost his job. His influences were the Grand Ole Opry, followed by Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, and then the Beatles. He originally planned to be a painter, but... Read more

Conway Twitty - 74% match to Johnny Lee

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... Read more

The Oak Ridge Boys - 74% match to Johnny Lee

Originally called the Country Cut-Ups, the Oak Ridge Boys were formed in 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. They often performed at the atomic energy plant in Oak Ridge, where, in the midst of a war, their optimistic gospel songs were welcomed, and hence they were renamed the... Read more

Charley Pride - 72% match to Johnny Lee

18 March 1938, Sledge, Mississippi, USA. Charley Pride was born on a cotton farm, which, as a result of his success, he was later able to purchase. Pride says, "My dad named me Charl Frank Pride, but I was born in the country and the midwife wrote it down as Charley". Harold... Read more

Shelly West - 71% match to Johnny Lee

23 May 1958, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The daughter of country singer Dottie West, it seemed natural that she should follow her mother into showbusiness. Raised in Nashville, after completing her high school education in 1975, she sang backing harmonies for her mother. In 1977, she... Read more