1. Dottie Rambo was an American gospel singer and songwriter.
35 Facts About Dottie Rambo
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Dottie Rambo was a Grammy winning solo artist and multiple Dove Award-winning artist.
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Dottie Rambo's songs have appeared in movies such as Undertow.
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Since the conception of Christian Television networks Dottie Rambo was a fixture on the new platform.
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Dottie Rambo's series featured music, cooking segments, and celebrity guests; Minnie Pearl, Barbara Mandrell, Dottie West, Connie Smith, Lisa Whelchel and many others.
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In 1991 Dottie Rambo was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall Of Fame, 1997 The Southern Gospel Music Hall Of Fame.
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In 2000, Dottie Rambo was awarded the ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Dottie Rambo's music is known for its poetic lyrics and cross genre reaching melodies often dealing with themes such as heaven, Christian sacrifice, hurts, and the born-again Christian experience.
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Dottie Rambo was born Joyce Reba Luttrell in Madisonville, Kentucky in 1934 to Jerald Vernon "Chick" and Elizabeth Luttrell.
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Dottie Rambo learned to play guitar while listening at night to the Grand Ole Opry on WSM radio in Nashville.
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Dottie Rambo had the support of her mother and father, and by age ten she was singing and playing country music cover tunes on a local radio program.
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Dottie Rambo left home and went on the road, with her first engagement being at a church in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Dottie Rambo formed a trio called the Gospel Echoes and traveled throughout the midwestern and southern United States.
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Dottie Rambo received a signing bonus of around $3,000, the most she had ever earned up to that time.
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Dottie Rambo performed in other parts of the world for the USO including Thule, Greenland.
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Dottie Rambo wrote country music songs recorded by Jimmie Davis, Charlie Louvin, Rhonda Vincent, and Hank Snow, among others.
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Dottie Rambo's songs have been recorded by a virtual "who's who" in the music world with her biggest songwriting cut being Whitney Houston's version of "I Go to the Rock", which appeared on the motion picture soundtrack for The Preacher's Wife.
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Dottie Rambo first appeared on television in 1960s on The Gospel Singing Jubilee.
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Dottie Rambo was a frequent guest on Christian television as well as the TNN, PAX, and GMT Women's Entertainment channels.
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Dottie Rambo's show featured segments of cooking, music, fashion shows, and celebrity friends such as Barbara Mandrell, Connie Smith, Dottie West, Minnie Pearl, and Lisa Whelchel.
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Dottie Rambo has been the subject of many biographic television specials: TBN's Portrait of Grace, INSP's Inspirational Groundbreakers, BBC's White Gospel, and GMC's Faith and Fame.
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In 1987, Dottie Rambo suffered a ruptured disk which led to paralysis in her left leg.
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Dottie Rambo underwent a series of surgeries that eventually reinstated limited mobility.
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In 2002, Dottie Rambo reentered the studio to record her first solo album in eighteen years.
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In November 2007, Dottie Rambo completed another studio album with the working title of Sheltered.
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Dottie Rambo died on May 11,2008, as a result of injuries sustained in a bus accident along Interstate 44 just outside Mount Vernon, Missouri.
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Dottie Rambo had just finished a performance at Calvary Life Church in Granite City, Illinois and was en route to a Mother's Day show in Texas when the 1997 Prevost bus she was traveling in ran off the road, struck a guard rail and hit an embankment.
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Dottie Rambo's funeral was held at Christ Church in Nashville, Tennessee on May 19,2008.
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Dottie Rambo was interred at the Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville.
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Dottie Rambo received numerous awards and other honors over the years, including one Grammy and three GMA Dove Awards.
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Dottie Rambo was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame on two occasions; once with the Rambos and once as a solo artist.
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Dottie Rambo was given the ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, and two Christian Country Music Association awards; the Pioneer Award in 2003, and in 2004, Songwriter of the Year.
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Dottie Rambo was inducted posthumously into the Christian Music Hall of Fame at the induction award ceremony on June 14,2008.
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Dottie Rambo was posthumously inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
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In 2011, Dottie Rambo was honored with a star on Music City's Walk of Fame, which her daughter Reba accepted on her behalf.