biography
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Cline, Patsy
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popular name of Virginia Patterson Hensley
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1932–63)
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| biography:
| Country music singer, born in Winchester, Virginia, USA. She played the piano and began singing country music while a teenager She adopted the last name of her first husband and retained it after divorcing him. In 1957 she won the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts contest and went on to record such hits as ‘I Fall to Pieces’ (1960) and ‘Crazy’ (1961). One of the first country performers to achieve success on both the popular and country music charts, her music used innovative vocals and arrangements. She died in a plane crash. |
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