1. Loretta Lynn Morgan was born on June 27,1959 and is an American country music singer and actress.
36 Facts About Lorrie Morgan
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Lorrie Morgan is the daughter of George Morgan, widow of Keith Whitley, and ex-wife of Jon Randall and Sammy Kershaw, all of whom are country music singers.
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Lorrie Morgan has been active as a singer since the age of 13, and charted her first single in 1979.
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Lorrie Morgan achieved her greatest success between 1988 and 1999, recording for RCA Records and the defunct BNA Records.
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Lorrie Morgan has recorded in collaboration with her father, as well as Whitley, Randall, Kershaw, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Tammy Wynette, The Beach Boys, Dolly Parton, Andy Williams, the New World Philharmonic, and Pam Tillis.
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Loretta Lynn Lorrie Morgan was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 27,1959.
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Lorrie Morgan is the fifth child of country music singer George Morgan.
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At age 13, Lorrie Morgan made her first performance on the Grand Ole Opry, when her father brought her onstage to perform "Paper Roses".
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Lorrie Morgan's father died in 1975, so she and the members of his band toured various small clubs until 1977, when they disbanded and she began touring with Roy Wiggins.
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Lorrie Morgan toured as a backing vocalist for George Jones, made guest appearances on the television series Nashville Now, and in 1984 became the youngest inductee of the Grand Ole Opry.
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Lorrie Morgan signed to RCA Records Nashville in 1988 and released her first single for that label, "Trainwreck of Emotion", that year.
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Lorrie Morgan moved to BNA Entertainment in 1992.
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Mansfield praised the album as being superior to its predecessors, but criticized "What Part of No" and Lorrie Morgan's cover of Bonnie Tyler's "It's a Heartache".
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Lorrie Morgan released her first Christmas album, Merry Christmas from London, at the end of 1993.
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Lorrie Morgan sang "Little Snow Girl" with Williams as part of a Christmas special hosted at his Moon River Theater in Branson, Missouri which aired on the television network PBS, and said that she chose to perform with him because she had been a fan of his music since childhood.
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Lorrie Morgan made her acting debut in this timespan, starting with the 1993 made-for-TV movie Proudheart on the defunct TNN.
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War Paint accounted for Lorrie Morgan's first writing credits on one of her own albums in the title track and "If You Came Back from Heaven", the latter of which she wrote as a tribute to Whitley.
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The song was originally intended to be a duet with Kershaw, but after his label expressed disinterest, the then-president of Lorrie Morgan's label suggested that she cut it with Randall.
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Lorrie Morgan said that she wanted the album to show her "maturing musically" over her previous works.
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Lorrie Morgan noted that she had originally declined the album's title track until she was encouraged by Thom Schuyler, a singer-songwriter who was the president of artists and repertoire at her label at the time, at which point she realized the song was indicative of the musical themes she wanted to pursue on the album.
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Lorrie Morgan held her first co-production credit on the album, doing so with Stroud; backing vocalists on the album included John Cowan, Vern Gosdin, and Randall.
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Lorrie Morgan dedicated the album to her father, whom she claims introduced her to such music.
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Lorrie Morgan performed ten concerts in 1998 which promoted the album, with Adair and a small orchestra accompanying her.
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Lorrie Morgan then ended her contract with BNA at the time of the album's release, with The Tennessean columnist Brad Schmitt noting at the time that the departure from her label was amicable, and was likely spurred by declining sales and creative differences.
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Lorrie Morgan's manager noted at the time that RCA's decision to re-sign her after having previously dropped her from the BNA division was "unusual".
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The album's title track was originally recorded by Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams for the former's 1996 movie The Mirror Has Two Faces, and Lorrie Morgan said that she had wanted to record the song after having seen the movie.
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Lorrie Morgan released a further solo album in 2016, Letting Go.
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Lorrie Morgan's style is defined by her singing voice, and the combination of ballads and uptempo material present in her discography.
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Lorrie Morgan's first husband was Ron Gaddis, a musician in George Jones' road band, to whom she was married from 1979 to 1981.
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Lorrie Morgan began dating American football player Troy Aikman in late 1993, but they amicably separated by year's end.
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From 1994 to 1996, Lorrie Morgan was in a relationship with politician Fred Thompson.
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Lorrie Morgan married country singer Jon Randall in 1996, and a year later, she published an autobiography, Forever Yours, Faithfully: My Love Story.
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In 1998, tabloids published allegations that Lorrie Morgan had been spotted in the back of a limousine with Bill Clinton, then the President of the United States, but Lorrie Morgan dismissed the claims as "fabricated".
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Lorrie Morgan married her fifth husband, country singer Sammy Kershaw, on September 29,2001.
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Lorrie Morgan filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, on October 23,2007.
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In 2008, Lorrie Morgan filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, with an estimated $1 to $10 million in debts.