1935 in Country Music - Births

Births

  • January 8 — Elvis Presley, "The King" and cross-genre singer (died 1977).
  • April 14 — Loretta Lynn, leading country singer-songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • September 25 — Royce Kendall, father half of The Kendalls (died 1998).
  • September 29 — Jerry Lee Lewis, pianist whose successfully fused honky tonk with rock music, making him one of the genre's most successful performers of the 1950s through 1980s; cousin of Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart.
  • November 30 - George Richey, songwriter and record producer; husband of Tammy Wynette (died 2010).

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