Shenandoah ~ Similar Artists

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Ricky Van Shelton - 100% match to Shenandoah

12 January 1952, Danville, near Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. Shelton was raised in a church-going family and he learned to love gospel music. His brother worked as a musician and through travelling with him, he also acquired a taste for country music. He worked as a pipe fitter but... Read more

Doug Stone - 99% match to Shenandoah

Douglas Jackson Brooks 19 June 1956, Newnan, Georgia, USA. Stone, the product of a broken home, was encouraged to become a musician by his mother, although he lived with his father following the break up. She taught him to play guitar and had put him onstage by the age of 7,... Read more

Billy Dean - 75% match to Shenandoah

William Harold Dean Jnr., 2 April 1962, Quincy, Florida, USA. Dean was raised in a farming community and played in his father's part-time country band. He accumulated many influences, including James Taylor and Dan Fogelberg, and he sang "My Way" at his graduation ceremony. He... Read more

Steve Wariner - 72% match to Shenandoah

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

Ty Herndon - 66% match to Shenandoah

Boyd Tyrone Herndon, 2 May 1962, Meridian, Mississippi, USA. Country singer Herndon grew up with a background of family singing, both at home and in church. He went to Nashville to seek his fortune, but through bad management agreements, he made no progress and his mother lost... Read more

Keith Whitley - 61% match to Shenandoah

1 July 1955, Sandy Hook, Kentucky, USA, d. 8 May 1989, Goodlettsville, Tennessee, USA. Whitley, who grew up in a musical family, learned to play the guitar from the age of six and was on the radio with Buddy Starcher in Charleston, West Virginia, aged eight. He joined Ralph... Read more

Lee Roy Parnell - 54% match to Shenandoah

21 December 1956, Abilene, Texas, USA. Bob Wills was a close family friend and Parnell sang on stage with him when he was only six years old, an incident he mentions in his 1993 song "Country Down To My Soul". Growing up in a household that loved western swing, Parnell found... Read more