Roy Acuff

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1903-09-15

Active to

1992-11-23

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

67,959

Total plays

433,979

Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country musician known around the world as the "King of Country Music". Roy Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tennessee, to Ida Carr and Simon E. Neil Acuff (a Baptist preacher, judge and tenant farmer), the third of their five children. Originally, Acuff didn't plan to be a singer. Acuff sang in the church choir as a schoolboy, but he was more interested in sports, particularly baseball. <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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   · 2019 · cited 25,594x

2. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

   · 1996 · cited 18,867x

3. Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes

   · 2002 · cited 16,052x

4. The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.

   · 1995 · cited 14,840x

5. 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

   · 2021 · cited 12,141x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Roy

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Maynardville

Place of death

Nashville

Occupation

violinist

Political party

Republican Party (United States)

Languages spoken

English language

Award

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Genre

country music

Instrument

voice

Record label

Columbia Records

Image

Roy Acuff 1950.JPG

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