Singer Kitty Wells, whose hits such as "Making Believe" and "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" made her the first female superstar of country music, died Monday. She was 92. The singer's ...

Many country ballads from 1961 feature the polished "Nashville sound," but the rocky reality of heartbreaking love stories remains.

Work was born in Akron, Ohio, and grew up in Dukedom, Tennessee. Like many Southerners, he moved to Pontiac, Michigan, near Detroit, in the late 1940s to find employment in the automotive industry. At ...

Click to open image viewer. The Queen of Country Music, Kitty Wells, (b. 1918) emerged in 1952 as the first female country vocalist to win and sustain major stardom. She continued to work a full ...

The singer's family said she died peacefully at home after complications from a stroke. Her solo recording career lasted from 1952 to the late 1970s and she made concert tours from the late 1930s ...