With numerous successful albums and many major awards under her belt, Trisha Yearwood established herself as one of country music’s most popular female vocalists. Starting with her debut release in 1991, she has amassed an enormous following of listeners who are drawn to her “everywoman” songs of fortitude and vulnerability.
Sara Carter was a member of the Carter Family, a trio that helped to pioneer what became known as country music.
Singer Brenda Lee has enjoyed success as a child performer, teen idol, easy-listening chanteuse, and country music queen, sustained through each of these career transformations by a powerful voice. An important pioneer of early rock and roll, she achieved unprecedented international popularity during the 1960s.
Dolly Parton is one of country music’s most creative singer-songwriters.
In the 1970s, she became one of the most celebrated performers on the “cowpunk” circuit (a hybrid of punk rock and country).
Writer, songwriter and producer
Rosa Lee Carson, better known as Moonshine Kate, was one of the first women to record country music during the 1920s and one of the genre’s earliest female comedians.
US Appalachian folk singer, songwriter and banjo player
June Carter Cash was a country and folk singer and the wife of Johnny Cash.
Maybelle Carter was a member of the Carter Family, a trio that helped to pioneer what became known as country music.