Awards & Winners

Kitty Wells

Date of Birth 30-August-1919
Place of Birth Nashville
(Tennessee, Davidson County, United States of America, Area codes 615 and 629)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Ellen Muriel Deason, Wells, Kitty
Profession Singer, Singer-songwriter
Ellen Muriel Deason, known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s. Wells ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of Billboard's country charts, according to historian Joel Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country Hits, behind Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya Tucker. In 1976, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1991, she became the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, and the eighth woman to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Wells' accomplishments earned her the nickname Queen of Country Music.

Awards by Kitty Wells

Check all the awards nominated and won by Kitty Wells.

1997


Grammy Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / I Don't Want Your Money
(It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels)