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Kitty Wells
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ellen Muriel Deason
American country music singer (1919–2012)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Pocket Cats - Feline Charm
- Pocket Cats
- Paw Power
- Paw power, Kitty Wells
- Dancing Dreams
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1919-08-30
- Active to
- 2012-07-16
2008 universal fire victimcountrycountry gospelnashville soundtraditional country
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 145,767
- Total plays
- 959,556
Tags
countryclassic countryfemale vocalistsHonky TonkFemale country
Kitty Wells (born Muriel Deason on 30 August 1919 - 16 July 2012) was a country singer from Nashville, Tennessee, known as the Queen of Country Music. During the 1950s she was the only female vocalist to consistently hit the top of the country charts and her stardom was on the same level as the biggest male vocalists of the period. Wells' success in the 1950s and 1960s was so enormous that she still ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kitty+Well
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kitty
- Family name
- Wells
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Nashville
- Place of death
- Madison
- Spouse
- Johnnie Wright
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- country music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Decca
- Official website
- www.kittywells.com
- Image
- Kitty Wells.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kitty Wells
- date of birth
- 1919-08-30
- date of death
- 2012-07-16
- cause of death
- stroke
- start of work period
- 1936-00-00
- name in native language
- Kitty Wells
- manner of death
- natural causes
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