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He is a Tejano and Texas country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande" and "Foolin'."
This is an alphabetical list of country music performers. It includes artists who played country music at some point in their career, even if they were not exclusively country music performers. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "For the Good ... History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House ...
Milsap was born January 16, 1943, in Robbinsville, North Carolina. [2] A congenital disorder left him almost completely blind from birth. [2] Abandoned by his mother as an infant, he was raised in poverty by his grandparents in the Smoky Mountains until he was sent to the North Carolina State School for the Blind and Deaf in Raleigh, North Carolina, at age five.
Lonnie Melvin Tillis (August 8, 1932 [1] – November 19, 2017) [2] was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the outlaw country movement, with a long list of Top 10 hits.
This alphabetical list of country rock bands and artists covers a wide variety of subgenres. The year following the artist's name is the first year of the artist's musical career. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
1962 in country music, Ray Charles releases Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. 1963 in country music, Tragedies befall country music, with deaths of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins (plane crash); Jack Anglin (car accident, en route to Cline's funeral) and Texas Ruby (house fire) all in less than a month's span.
Roger Dean Miller Sr. (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me", and "England Swings".