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Wynonna Judd

Wynonna Judd shakes hands with Marine Cpl. Jamale Jones, a Pentagon tour guide, during a USO concert at the Pentagon

Wynonna Ellen Judd (born Christina Claire Ciminella on May 30, 1964, in Ashland, Kentucky) is a Grammy-winning Country Music singer. She often goes by the single name Wynonna (pronounced "WYE-no-nah"). Her immediate family consists of her mother Naomi, sister Ashley, son Elijah (born December 23, 1994), and daughter Grace June 21, 1996).

She sang as a duo with her mother and were known as The Judds.

Wynonna is an active and vocal member of the Recording Artists' Coalition, an American music industry organization that represents recording artists, and attempts to defend their rights and interests.

Partial List of #1 Hits (as certified by Billboard magazine)

  • Mama He's Crazy
  • Why Not Me
  • Girls Night Out
  • Love is Alive
  • Have Mercy
  • Grandpa
  • Rockin With the Rhythm
  • Cry Myself to Sleep
  • I Know Where I'm Going
  • Maybe Your Baby's Got the Blues
  • Turn it Loose
  • Change of Heart
  • Young Love
  • Let Me Tell You About Love
  • She Is His Only Need
  • I Saw the Light
  • No One Else on Earth
  • My Strongest Weakness
  • Only Love
  • To Be Loved by You

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Wynonna is an active and vocal member of the Recording Artists' Coalition, an American music industry organization that represents recording artists, and attempts to defend their rights and interests. The 20-track album will be titled "The Pilgrim". She sang as a duo with her mother and were known as The Judds. B. King, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Her immediate family consists of her mother Naomi, sister Ashley, son Elijah (born December 23, 1994), and daughter Grace June 21, 1996). At the presentation it was announced that his new album would be made with a line-up that will include Eric Clapton, B. She often goes by the single name Wynonna (pronounced "WYE-no-nah"). In February 2005 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award, by the Recording Academy that also gives the Grammy Awards.

Wynonna Ellen Judd (born Christina Claire Ciminella on May 30, 1964, in Ashland, Kentucky) is a Grammy-winning Country Music singer. After several years of inactivity in the studio, Lewis plans to put out a new album in 2005. To Be Loved by You. He has never stopped touring and can still deliver great unique concerts that are always unpredictable exciting and personal. Only Love. In 1986 Jerry Lee Lewis was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. My Strongest Weakness. Nicknamed The Killer for his forceful voice and piano production on stage, he was described by fellow artist Roy Orbison as the best raw performer in the history of rock music.

No One Else on Earth. Despite the personal problems, his musical talent is unquestioned. I Saw the Light. Jerry Lee's sister, Linda Gail Lewis, is also a piano player, and has recorded with Van Morrison. She Is His Only Need. Swaggart is also a piano player, as is another cousin, country music star Mickey Gilley. Let Me Tell You About Love. The very public downfall of his cousin, television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, resulted in more adverse publicity to an already deeply troubled family.

Young Love. The film was based on the book by Lewis' ex-wife Myra and starred Dennis Quaid as Lewis, with Winona Ryder, and Alec Baldwin. Change of Heart. In 1989, a major motion picture based on his early life in rock & roll titled Great Balls of Fire brought him back into the public eye. Turn it Loose. When questioned about why he was at the front gate, Lewis displayed a gun and told the guard he had come to kill Presley. Maybe Your Baby's Got the Blues. Lewis had been invited to visit by Presley but a security guard was unaware of this.

I Know Where I'm Going. A few weeks later on November 23, Lewis was again involved in a gun related arrest at Elvis Presley's Graceland residence. Cry Myself to Sleep. Owens miraculously survived. Rockin With the Rhythm. The gun was loaded and Lewis shot Owens in the chest. Grandpa. Pointing it at his bass player, Butch Owens, he pulled the trigger.

Have Mercy. While celebrating his 41st birthday in 1976, Lewis began playing with a .357 Magnum, which he later stated he thought was unloaded. Love is Alive. Addicted to drugs too, Jerry Lee Lewis checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic. Girls Night Out. Little more than a year later, his fifth wife was found dead at his home from a methadone overdose. Why Not Me. Following this, his fourth wife drowned in a swimming pool under suspicious circumstances.

Mama He's Crazy. Lewis' own erratic behaviour during the latter part of the 1970s led to his being hospitalized and near death from a bleeding ulcer. Earlier in the sixties his first son Steve Allen Lewis drowned in a swimming pool accident. Plagued by alcohol and drug problems after Myra divorced him in 1970, tragedy struck when his 19-year-old son, Jerry Lee Lewis Jr., was killed in a road accident in 1973. Although he toured and played many sold-out concerts, he never again achieved the heights of success that he had prior to the scandal of 1958 despite a major international hit with "Chantilly Lace" in 1973.

He achieved many No.1 and Top 10 country hits. After more than a decade playing rock and roll, in 1968 Lewis began focussing on country and western music with reasonable success. His popularity recovered somewhat in Europe, especially in the UK and Germany, in the mid 1960s, but success eluded him in the USA. His only hit during this period was a cover of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" in 1962.

The scandal followed Lewis home to America and, as a result, he almost vanished from the music scene. The situation caused a public uproar and the tour was cancelled after only three concerts. Lewis’ personal life was always turbulent but kept from the public until a tour of Britain in 1958 when the press learned the 23-year-old star was with his third wife, Myra Gale Brown, who was also his 13-year-old second cousin. His dynamic performing style can be viewed in films, including High School Confidential in which he sang the title song from the back of a flatbed truck and the big-budget film The Girl Can't Help It.

He kicked the piano bench out of the way to play standing, raked his hands up and down the keyboard for dramatic accent, and even sat down on it. Lewis's performances were dynamic. His early billing was as Jerry Lee Lewis and his Pumping Piano. Watching and listening to Jerry Lee Lewis play, Elvis said if he could play the piano like that, he'd quit singing.

"Great Balls Of Fire" soon followed and would become his biggest hit. In 1957, his piano and the pure rock sound of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" propelled him to international fame. Lewis' first recording at Sun studios was his own distinct version of the country ballad "Crazy Arms". Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash also began their recording careers at Sun Studios around this same time.

In 1956, Lewis joined Sam Phillips at his Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Leaving religious music behind, but bringing its sound and his piano playing talents to the new music developing at the time, in 1954 he cut his first record. He began playing the piano at a very early age in his church, and in 1950 he attended Southwestern Bible Institute in Texas but was expelled for misconduct, including playing rock and roll versions of hymns in church. He was, like Elvis Presley, brought up singing the Christian gospel music of integrated southern Pentecostal churches.

His parents, though poor, took out a loan to buy him a piano, and within a year he had developed his mature style of playing. Born in Ferriday, Louisiana, he early showed a natural talent at the piano. Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll pioneer piano player and singer. "Breathless".

"Great Balls of Fire". "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On". "Another Place, Another Time". "Crazy Arms".

"High School Confidential". "It'll Be Me". "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)". "Who's Gonna Play this Old Piano?".

"End of the Road". "Me and Bobby McGee".