1956 in Country Music - Births

Births

• January 18 — Mark Collie, country artist of the early 1990s.
• March 26 — Charly McClain, country vocalist of the early-to-mid-1980s.
• June 19 — Doug Stone, popular country vocalist during the early- to mid-1990s.
• July 6 — John Jorgenson, member of The Desert Rose Band.
• September 22 — Debby Boone, granddaughter of Red Foley who enjoyed country success of her own in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
• October 23 — Dwight Yoakam, neotraditionalist since the mid-1980s who helped revitalize interest in the Bakersfield Sound.
• December 9 — Sylvia Kirby, pop-styled female vocalist of the early-1980s who became best known as "Sylvia."
• December 18 - Ron White, comedian, member of Blue Collar Comedy with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, and Larry the Cable Guy
• December 21 — Lee Roy Parnell, alternative country star who enjoyed mainstream country success during the mid-1990s.
• December 30 — Suzy Bogguss, folk-styled country artist who rose to fame in the early 1990s.