Kitty Wells

• NASHVILLE, July 16 (Reuters) - Kitty Wells, the Queen of Country Music who opened the door to a host of female country music headliners, died on Monday at her home in Nashville of complications from a stroke. She was 92.
(Reuters UK)
• NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Without Kitty Wells, there might be no Taylor Swift. Or Miranda Lambert. Or Loretta Lynn. She was the pioneer, the first female singer with enough spunk and fire to get noticed in the male-dominated world of country music.
(Washington Times)
• Kitty Wells, the Queen of Country Music, died Monday from complications after a stroke. She was 92. Wells, born Ellen Muriel Deason, was country musics first female superstar and became the first female singer to reach No.
(NBCNews.com)
• Among those mourning her passing was Loretta Lynn, whose own rise to popularity came after Wells, who paved the way for strong female voices in country music.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• Kitty Wells shocked the country music scene when she first sang about honky tonks and cheating husbands 60 years ago, but it propelled her to stardom and blazed a path for the strong female voices that followed.
(ClickOnDetroit.com)
• NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Kitty Wells, who was on the verge of quitting music to be a homemaker when she recorded a hit in 1952 that struck a chord with women and began opening doors for them in country music, died Monday at her home in Madison, Tenn.
(Pioneer Press)
• Kitty Wells, the long-reigning "Queen of Country Music" and the first woman to reach No.
(FOX43.com)
• Singer Kitty Wells, whose hits such as "Making Believe" and "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" made her the first female superstar of country music, died Monday. She was 92.
(LehighValleyLive.com)
• May 1986: Country music singer Kitty Wells in Nashville, Tenn. Wells, the first female superstar of country music, has died at the age of 92.AP1986 Aug.
(FOX News)
• Kitty Wells, the Queen of Country Music, died at her home in Nashville Monday of complications from a stroke. She was 92. Wells was the first female to score a No.
(NPR News)