Kenny Rogers ~ Similar Artists

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Johnny Horton - 100% match to Kenny Rogers

30 April 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA, d. 5 November 1960, Milano, Texas, USA. Horton was raised in Tyler, Texas, where his sharecropping family settled in search of work. He learned the guitar from his mother and, owing to his athletic prowess, won scholarships at Baylor... Read more

George Jones - 76% match to Kenny Rogers

George Glenn Jones, 12 September 1931, Saratoga, Texas, USA. Jones is the greatest of honky tonk singers but he has also been a victim of its lifestyle. He learned guitar in his youth, and in 1947, was hired by the husband-and-wife duo Eddie And Pearl. This developed into his... Read more

Alan Jackson - 74% match to Kenny Rogers

17 October 1958, Newnan, Georgia, USA. Jackson, the son of a motor mechanic, had a love of gospel music through church and his family. His roots can be heard in "Home" (written for Mother's Day), "Chattahoochee" and his tribute to Hank Williams, "Midnight In Montgomery". He has... Read more

Charley Pride - 68% match to Kenny Rogers

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

Marty Robbins - 65% match to Kenny Rogers

Martin David Robinson 26 September 1925, near Glendale, Arizona, USA, d. 8 December 1982, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Robbins later maintained that his father hated him and that his early childhood was unhappy. Reports indicate that John Robinson (originally a Polish immigrant... Read more

Conway Twitty - 58% match to Kenny Rogers

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

Garth Brooks - 58% match to Kenny Rogers

Troyal Garth Brooks, 7 February 1962, Yukon, Oklahoma, USA. Brooks' mother, country singer Colleen Carroll (b. 1929, d. 7 August 1999), appeared on the Ozark Jubilee and recorded for Capitol Records. Brooks won an athletic scholarship in Oklahoma and entertained in clubs at... Read more

John Denver - 56% match to Kenny Rogers

Henry John Deutschendorf Jnr., 31 December 1943, Roswell, New Mexico, USA, d. 12 October 1997, Monterey Bay, California, USA. One of America's most popular performers during the 70s, Denver's rise to fame began when he was "discovered" in a Los Angeles nightclub. He initially... Read more

Waylon Jennings - 53% match to Kenny Rogers

Wayland Arnold Jennings, 15 June 1937, Littlefield, Texas, USA, d. 13 February 2002, Arizona, USA. Jennings' mother wanted to name him Tommy but his father, William Alvin, insisted that the family tradition of "W.A.' should be maintained. His father played guitar in Texas... Read more

Jim Croce - 51% match to Kenny Rogers

10 January 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 20 September 1973, Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA. Originally a university disc jockey, Croce played in various rock bands before moving to New York in 1967 where he performed in folk clubs. By 1969, he and his wife Ingrid (b.... Read more