1. Iris Luella DeMent was born on January 5,1961 and is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
21 Facts About Iris DeMent
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Iris DeMent has been nominated for a Grammy Award twice.
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Iris DeMent was born in Paragould, Arkansas, the 14th and youngest child of Pat Iris DeMent and wife Flora Mae.
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Iris DeMent's mother had harbored dreams of going to Nashville and starting a singing career.
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Iris DeMent's family moved from Arkansas to the Los Angeles area when she was three.
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Iris DeMent left high school in the tenth grade to work full time at a Kmart store.
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Iris DeMent's parents required her to get a GED high school diploma.
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Iris DeMent later went with a boyfriend to Topeka, Kansas, where she attended Washburn University.
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Iris DeMent was inspired to write her first song, "Our Town," at age 25 by a drive through a boarded-up Midwest town.
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Iris DeMent sang the duet "Bell Bottomed Tear" as part of The Beautiful South's Much Later with Jools live special in 1997.
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Iris DeMent opened up the LA Weekly and noticed that DeMent was playing in town and thought her name was beautiful and then decided to name it after her.
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Iris DeMent sang four duets with John Prine on his 1999 album In Spite of Ourselves, including the title track.
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Iris DeMent appeared in the 2000 film Songcatcher, playing the character Rose Gentry and singing on the soundtrack as well.
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On October 2,2012, Iris DeMent released her first album of original songs in 16 years, Sing the Delta.
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Iris DeMent has sung duets with Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris and is featured on the albums of many other performers.
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Iris DeMent sang the Merle Haggard song "Big City" on Tulare Dust: A Songwriters' Tribute to Merle Haggard.
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Iris DeMent has made frequent appearances on Garrison Keillor's radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
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Iris DeMent contributed harmony vocals to "Pallbearer", a song from country artist Josh Turner's 2012 album Punching Bag.
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In 2015, Iris DeMent released The Trackless Woods, an album based upon and inspired by the words of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, on her own Flariella record label.
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Iris DeMent reunited with John Prine in 2016 for his second duets album For Better, or Worse and performed on two tracks.
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Iris DeMent married singer-songwriter Greg Brown on November 21,2002.