Emmylou Harris was born on April 2,1947 and is an American singer, songwriter and musician.
57 Facts About Emmylou Harris
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Emmylou Harris has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1992 and an induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Emmylou Harris's father, Walter Rutland Harris, was a Marine Corps officer, and her mother, Eugenia, was a wartime military wife.
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Emmylou Harris's father was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war.
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Emmylou Harris dropped out of college to pursue her musical aspirations and moved to New York City, working as a waitress to support herself while performing folk songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses during the 1960s folk music boom.
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Emmylou Harris married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album, Gliding Bird.
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Emmylou Harris and Slocum soon divorced, and Emmylou Harris and her newborn daughter Hallie moved in with her parents in Clarksville, Maryland, a suburb between Baltimore and Washington, DC.
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Emmylou Harris soon returned to performing as part of a trio with Gerry Mule and Tom Guidera.
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Emmylou Harris toured as a member of Parsons's band, the Fallen Angels, in 1973, and the pair shone during vocal harmonies and duets.
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Later that year, Parsons and Emmylou Harris worked on a studio album, Grievous Angel.
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Parsons's Grievous Angel was released posthumously in 1974, and three more tracks from his sessions with Emmylou Harris were included on another posthumous Parsons album, Sleepless Nights, in 1976.
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Emmylou Harris did so, enlisting guitarist James Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, both of whom had played with Elvis Presley as well as Parsons.
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Unusual for country albums at the time, which largely revolved around a hit single, Emmylou Harris's albums borrowed their approach from the album-oriented rock market.
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Emmylou Harris appealed to those who normally disapproved of the country market's pull toward crossover pop singles.
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Emmylou Harris contributed to albums by Linda Ronstadt, Guy Clark and Neil Young, and she was tapped by Bob Dylan to perform on his Desire album.
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Emmylou Harris filmed one of the studio sequences, owing to her touring schedule, in the Band's The Last Waltz, singing "Evangeline".
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The Christmas album Light of the Stable was released in 1979; its title track featured backing vocals by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Neil Young, all of whom Emmylou Harris had worked with sporadically since the mid-1970s, and with whom she continued to collaborate through the 2000s.
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In 1980, Emmylou Harris recorded "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again" with Roy Orbison.
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Emmylou Harris was featured on Paul Kennerley's concept album The Legend of Jesse James, which featured Levon Helm of the Band, Albert Lee, Charlie Daniels and Johnny Cash.
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Emmylou Harris described it as a "country opera", and a "huge commercial disaster".
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Emmylou Harris's co-writer and producer on the album, English songwriter and musician Paul Kennerley, the writer of the hit singles "Born to Run" and "In My Dreams".
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Emmylou Harris first appeared on A Prairie Home Companion in 1985 and has been a fan favourite ever since.
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In 1987, nearly a full decade after their first attempt, Emmylou Harris teamed up with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt for a long-promised and long-anticipated Trio disc.
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Emmylou Harris released a solo album in 1987, Angel Band, featuring traditional gospel songs, on which she worked with then rising country star Vince Gill, and others.
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Emmylou Harris has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1992.
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In 1995, Emmylou Harris was a regular contributor to the original series of the BBC's Transatlantic Sessions; contributing to each of its seven episodes of collaborative live performances by various leading folk and country musicians, who would play music, mostly from Scotland, Ireland, England and North America.
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In 1995, Emmylou Harris released one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the decade, Wrecking Ball, produced by Daniel Lanois, best known for his work with U2, Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan.
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Emmylou Harris then took her Wrecking Ball material on the road, releasing the live Spyboy in 1998, backed with a power trio consisting of Nashville producer, songwriter and guitarist Buddy Miller and two New Orleans musicians, drummer Brady Blade and bassist-vocalist-percussionist Daryl Johnson.
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In January 1999, Emmylou Harris released Trio 2 with Parton and Ronstadt.
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Also in 1999, Emmylou Harris paid tribute to her former singing partner Gram Parsons by serving as co-executive producer of Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons, an album that brought together more than a dozen artists.
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Emmylou Harris performed duets with Beck, Sheryl Crow and the Pretenders on this album's tracks.
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In 2000, Emmylou Harris released her solo follow-up to Wrecking Ball, Red Dirt Girl, produced by Lanois protege Malcolm Burn.
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Emmylou Harris accompanied alternative country singer Ryan Adams on his solo debut, Heartbreaker and sang on Tracy Chapman's fifth album, Telling Stories.
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In 2003, Emmylou Harris supplied the finishing touches in harmonizing with The Chicks on a song they were recording in the studio, "Godspeed".
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Emmylou Harris released Stumble into Grace, her follow-up to Red Dirt Girl, in 2003.
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In 2004, Emmylou Harris led the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue with Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin.
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On September 9,2005, Emmylou Harris participated in "Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast", a series of concerts simulcast by most American television stations to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.
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Emmylou Harris performed with Beth Nielsen Chapman and the Dixie Chicks, harmonizing on Patty Griffin's song "Mary".
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Emmylou Harris lent her voice to the soundtrack of the critically acclaimed 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, on the song "A Love That Will Never Grow Old", which was controversially omitted from Oscar consideration because of the insubstantial amount of time the song played during the film.
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In 2005, Emmylou Harris worked with Conor Oberst on Bright Eyes' release, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, performing backup vocals on three tracks.
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Emmylou Harris appeared in the Jonathan Demme documentary concert film Neil Young: Heart of Gold, released in 2006.
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Emmylou Harris is featured on A Tribute to Joni Mitchell, released on April 24,2007.
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Emmylou Harris covered the song "The Magdalene Laundries".
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Emmylou Harris sang "Another Pot o' Tea" with Anne Murray on Murray's album Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends, released on November 13,2007, in Canada and on January 15,2008, in the US.
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Emmylou Harris wrote a song entitled "In Rodanthe" for the 2008 film Nights in Rodanthe.
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Emmylou Harris toured with an ensemble she dubbed the Red Dirt Boys, featuring Phil Madeira on accordion, guitar, and keyboards, Colin Linden on guitar and banjo, Rickie Simpkins on mandolin and fiddle, Chris Donohue on bass, and Bryan Owings on drums.
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In 2009, Emmylou Harris toured with Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, and Miller as "Three Girls and Their Buddy".
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Emmylou Harris performed at the 2019 Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum Concert and Induction Ceremony.
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Emmylou Harris's marriage to Tom Slocum lasted from 1969 to 1970 and produced one child, Mika Hallie Slocum, born on March 15,1970.
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Emmylou Harris has a granddaughter who was born in 2009, and a grandson who was born in 2012.
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In 1997 and 1998, Emmylou Harris performed in Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair, promoting feminism in music.
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Since 1999, Emmylou Harris has organized an annual benefit tour called Concerts for a Landmine-Free World.
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Emmylou Harris is a supporter of animal rights and an active member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
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Emmylou Harris founded Bonaparte's Retreat, an animal shelter in Nashville, and assists there in her spare time.
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Emmylou Harris became a member of the newly formed Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.
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Emmylou Harris has received five awards for her contributions to a Louvin Brothers tribute album, a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album and a film soundtrack.