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Contemporary country singer/songwriter Keith Perry was born and raised in Gilbert, WV; already an impressive fiddler and mandolin player as an adolescent, at 14 he toured behind Mel Street, three years later making his recorded debut as a member of the gospel group the Revival Spirits
Keith Rosier is a bassist, songwriter, and record producer who played his first professional gig when was only 13 years old That was just three years after he started learning how to play the bass from his grandmother, who normally gave instruction in the electric guitar
Country singer/songwriter/producer Keith Stegall was born in Wichita Falls, TX, in 1955 and started playing the piano at age four He later learned guitar and formed a country band called the Pacesetters at age 12; during his early teen years, he also picked up the drums, started listening to R&B, and joined a rock band
Born in New Zealand, Keith Urban learned to play guitar as a six-year-old in Australia, after a young woman asked to place an ad in his dad’s shop window offering guitar lessons
Keith Whitley’s legacy loomed large over the country music landscape of the ’90s A talented new country singer and songwriter, Whitley was just beginning to emerge as a superstar at the time of his death in 1989
Growing up in Moore, OK, Kellie Coffey made her stage debut at the age of nine when she sang at the Oklahoma Opry Her interest in music continued and Coffey attended the same high school that country star Toby Keith had attended
In 2005, Louisiana-born and North Carolina-raised singer Kellie Pickler landed a spot in the fifth season of American Idol Though she finished sixth, the former waitress and Miss North Carolina contestant charmed American audiences with her Southern twang and blonde ambition, resulting in a contract with BNA Records that yielded her debut album, Small Town Girl, in the fall of 2006
Kelly Harrell was a near-legendary country balladeer during the 1920s, when he cut more than a dozen songs for Victor and OKeh He was also a gifted songwriter whose music was covered by other artists, including Jimmie Rodgers and Ernest Stoneman, in his own lifetime
This guitarist and singer was the youngest of 14 children His father, Emmett W Lundy, was a fiddler from Grayson County, VA, who recorded a wonderful set of fiddle tunes from his repertoire for the Library of Congress in 1941
Raised on the honky tonk of the ’50s, Kelly Kessler taught herself how to play guitar to become an accompanist to her harp-playing grandfather She headed to Kentucky for a bit, then to Europe, where she explored her family’s musical traditions