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Crystal Gayle
American country music singer (born 1951)
Brenda Gail Webb (born January 9, 1951), known professionally as Crystal Gayle, is an American country music singer widely known for her 1977 hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". Initially, Gayle's management and record label were the same as that of her oldest sister, Loretta Lynn. Not finding success with the arrangement after several years, and with Lynn's encouragement, Gayle decided to try a different approach. She signed a new record contract and began recording with Nashville producer Allen Reynolds. Gayle's new sound was sometimes referred to as middle-of-the-road (MOR) or country pop, and was part of a bigger musical trend by many country artists of the 1970s to appeal to a wider audience. Subsequently, Gayle became one of the most successful crossover artists of the 1970s and 80s.[2][3] She is known for her floor-length hair.[4]
Gayle was said to have begun her career in the 1
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Loretta Lynn's 7 Siblings: All About the Late Country Star's Brothers and Sisters
Loretta Lynn is the undisputed queen of country music, with eight Grammy Awards and the first-ever best female country vocalist Country Music Award in 1967 — but she’s not the only musical one in her family. Lynn and her seven siblings grew up singing, and many of them went on to have careers in country music, including her country-pop superstar sister Crystal Gayle.
“I thought everybody sang, because everybody up there in Butcher Holler did,” Lynn wrote on her website’s biography. “Everybody in my family sang. So inom really didn’t understand until inom left Butcher Holler that there were some people who couldn’t. And it was kind of a shock.”
Lynn, born in 1932 in rural Kentucky, was the first daughter of Clary and Ted Webb. The couple had Melvin “Junior” Webb, then Lynn, followed by six more children: Herman Webb, Willie “Jay” Lee Webb, Donald Ray Webb, Peggy Sue Wright, Betty Ruth Hopkins a
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Peggy Sue (singer)
Peggy Sue | |
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| Birth name | Peggy Sue Webb |
| Born | (1943-03-25) March 25, 1943 (age 81) |
| Origin | Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 1966–present |
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Musical artist
Peggy Sue Wright (née Webb; born March 25, 1943) is a country music singer and songwriter, who had brief success as a country singer in the late 1960s. She is the middle sister of two popular country performers, Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle. Her older brother Willie "Jay" Lee Webb was a country music singer/songwriter in the 1960s.
Biography
[edit]Peggy Sue Wright was born Peggy Sue Webb in a cabin in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky on March 25, 1943. She is the second daughter and the sixth child born to Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) and Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (June 6, 1906 – February 22, 1959). Mr. Webb was a coal miner and subsistence farmer.
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