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 ...

Jeannie Seely was a 12-year-old girl in rural Pennsylvania when she first heard Kitty Wells’ song “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” It was 1952, and Wells’ unlikely hit was climbing the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Without Kitty Wells, there might be no Taylor Swift. Or Miranda Lambert. Or Loretta Lynn. She was THE pioneer, the first female singer with enough spunk and fire to get noticed in ...

Starting in the 1950s, Wells recorded hit after hit at a time when women didn't have hits in country music. When she performed, Wells delivered... Kitty Wells: The Queen Of Country Music Kitty Wells, ...

Country music hasn’t always been a hospitable place for women. The female artists who managed to rise through the ranks were bound by certain conventions. That is, until Kitty Wells came along with ...

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 ...

Wells sang about the real problems of postwar life and the sad side of domesticity. Kitty Wells, Pioneering Country Singer, Dies Kitty Wells revolutionized country music by becoming its first big ...

Famed country music singer Kitty Wells died recently, which brings Neighbors to this photo of Jimmy Wells and his Dakota Roundup Band. No, Kitty and Jimmy weren't related. Kitty Wells, in fact, was ...

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 ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...