Country singer Kitty Wells, the most successful and influential female country singer of the 1950s and early ’60s and one of a handful of women to have significant impact at a time when the music was ...

When a queen dies, a nation stops to grieve. For country music, the passing of Queen Kitty Wells was no less of an event, though it feels appropriate to observe it not with pomp and grandiose gestures ...

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Kitty Wells, the preeminent female country vocalist of the 1950s, died in Nashville on Monday. She was 92. She was the first of a breed: The late historian Charles Wolfe wrote that Wells’ ’50s ...

Kitty Wells, the preeminent female country vocalist of the 1950s, died in Nashville on Monday. She was 92. She was the first of a breed: The late historian Charles Wolfe wrote that Wells’ ’50s ...

Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music" who broke down barriers in the 1950s for women in the genre, died on Monday aged 92, a family friend said. Jay McDonald, an associate at Junction Recording ...

Kitty Wells, the long-reigning “Queen of Country Music” and the first woman to reach No. 1 on the country chart with her attitude-changing hit “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” died Monday ...

Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music" who broke down barriers in the 1950s to women in the genre, died Monday at her home in Nashville, Tennessee, a source close to the family said. She was 92.

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music" who opened the door to a host of female country music headliners, died on Monday at her home in Nashville of complications from a stroke ...

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Kitty Wells, a singer dubbed the "Queen of Country Music," died on Monday at her Tennessee home, according to family members. She was 92. NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Kitty Wells, a ...