1. Malcolm Bell Wiseman was an American bluegrass and country singer active for seven decades in the twentieth century.
17 Facts About Mac Wiseman
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Mac Wiseman was part of Bluegrass music's earliest generation, though bluegrass never defined him.
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Mac Wiseman helped found the CMA, headed Dot Records' country division, and, in 1993, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor.
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Mac Wiseman was a recipient of a 2008 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
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Mac Wiseman was born on May 23,1925, in Crimora, Virginia.
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Mac Wiseman attended school in New Hope, Virginia, and graduated from high school there in 1943.
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Mac Wiseman had polio from the age of six months; due to his disabilities, he could not do field work and spent his time in childhood listening to old records.
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Mac Wiseman studied at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Dayton, Virginia, before it moved to Winchester, Virginia, in 1960 and started his career as a disc jockey at WSVA-AM in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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When Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs left Bill Monroe's band, Mac Wiseman became the guitarist for their new band, the Foggy Mountain Boys.
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From 1966 to 1970, Mac Wiseman served as director of the WWVA Jamboree.
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Mac Wiseman was referred to by a disc jockey as "The Voice with a Heart", a title which became popular among his fans.
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In 2014, he released an album of songs inspired by his mother's handwritten notebooks of songs she heard on the radio when Mac Wiseman was a child: Songs From My Mother's Hand.
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Mac Wiseman died in Nashville on February 24,2019, at the age of 93.
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Mac Wiseman recorded splendid and often groundbreaking music for more than seventy years, remaining relevant and productive even in his nineties.
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Mac Wiseman was a titan of bluegrass music's first generation, though bluegrass never defined him.
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Mac Wiseman helped found the CMA, he headed Dot Records' country division, and he recorded with everyone from big band legend Woody Herman to Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Duane Eddy to Americana poet laureate John Prine.
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Mac Wiseman was a recipient of a 2008 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.