1932 in Country Music - Births

Births

  • February 25 - Faron Young, honky tonk singer whose popularity spanned the 1950s through mid-1970s. (died 1996).
  • February 26 - Johnny Cash, vastly influential in all genres of American popular music, most notably country (died 2003).
  • August 8 — Mel Tillis, singer-songwriter who overcame a speech impediment to become one of the genre's biggest stars of the 1950s through 1980s.
  • September 8 - Patsy Cline, one of the most influential singers in American popular music, first female country singer to cross over to the pop charts (died 1963)
  • October 11 - Dottie West, female vocalist who successfully transferred from the Nashville Sound (of the 1960s) to more straight-ahead pop country during the late 1970s and early 1980s. (died 1991)

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