Kitty Wells shocked the country music scene when she first sang about honky tonks and cheating husbands 60 years ago, but it propelled her to stardom and blazed a path for the strong female voices ...

Kitty Wells, who kicked down the doors through which every female country singer from Loretta Lynn to Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift has since walked, died Monday in Nashville. She was 92 and still ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kitty Wells, who was on the verge of quitting music to be a homemaker when she recorded a hit in 1952 that struck a chord with women and began opening doors for them in country ...

Country music icon Kitty Wells died at her home in Nashville on July 16 of complications resulting from a stroke. She was 92. Known as the “Queen of Country Music,” Wells’ career spanned more than ...

Kitty Wells, the Queen of Country Music, died at her home in Nashville Monday of complications from a stroke. She was 92. Wells was the first female to score a No. 1 hit on the country charts, and ...

Kitty Wells, the “Queen of Country Music”, was born Ellen Muriel Deason, in Nashville, Tennessee on August 30, 1919. She created the role for all other female country singers. “It Wasn’t God Who Made ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kitty Wells, on the verge of quitting music to become a homemaker when she recorded a 1952 hit that opened doors for women in country music, died yesterday at her home in Madison, ...

She was among the first female popular musicians to sing about the experience of being female—and to face derision from the industry's good old boys for doing so. When Kitty Wells died Monday at the ...

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 ...