KITTY WELLS
Name: Kitty Wells
Birth name: Ellen Muriel Deason
Also known as The Queen of Country Music
Born: 30 August 1919 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Kitty Wells (born Ellen Muriel Deason on August 30, 1919) is an American country
music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,"
made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and
turned her into the very first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued up
until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of future female country singers to
come to fame in the 1960s.
Kitty Wells' success in the 1950s and 1960s was so enormous that she still ranks
as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of the Billboard
country charts according to historian Joel Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country
Hits, behind Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya
Tucker. Wells was the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank
Williams, to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991, as well as
being the seventh woman and first Caucasian woman to receive the honor. In 1976,
she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Wells' accomplishments
earned her the moniker "The Queen of Country Music," a title since inherited by
Reba McEntire.
Name: Kitty Wells
Birth name: Ellen Muriel Deason
Also known as The Queen of Country Music
Born: 30 August 1919 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Kitty Wells (born Ellen Muriel Deason on August 30, 1919) is an American country
music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,"
made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and
turned her into the very first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued up
until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of future female country singers to
come to fame in the 1960s.
Kitty Wells' success in the 1950s and 1960s was so enormous that she still ranks
as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of the Billboard
country charts according to historian Joel Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country
Hits, behind Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya
Tucker. Wells was the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank
Williams, to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991, as well as
being the seventh woman and first Caucasian woman to receive the honor. In 1976,
she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Wells' accomplishments
earned her the moniker "The Queen of Country Music," a title since inherited by
Reba McEntire.