Kitty Wells

• NASHVILLE (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.
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• Kitty Wells, the Queen of Country Music who broke down barriers in the 1950s for women in the genre, died on Monday aged 92, a family friend said.
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• HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. - The first female superstar of country music will be laid to rest Friday. Kitty Wells died Monday at the age of 92. The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. at the Hendersonville Church of Christ with burial to follow at Spring Hill Cemetery.
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• 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.
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• Kitty Wells, who died Monday at age 92, was born in Nashville to a family of country musicians, and within that simple truth lies a fascinating narrative.
(The Wenatchee World Online)
• 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.
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• Kitty Wells, who reigned for decades as the Queen of Country Music, is being remembered by many women in country music who were empowered by her pioneering career. Wells died Monday (July 16) at her home in Madison, Tenn. She was 92.
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• 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.
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• Singer Kitty Wells, whose hits such as Making Believe and It Wasnt God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels made her the first female superstar of country music, died Monday. She was 92.
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