NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music" who opened the door to a host of female country music headliners, died on Monday at her home in Nashville of complications from a stroke ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Without Kitty Wells, there might be no Taylor Swift. Or Miranda Lambert. Or Loretta Lynn. She was THE pioneer, the first female singer with enough spunk and fire to get noticed in ...

Jeannie Seely was a 12-year-old girl in rural Pennsylvania when she first heard Kitty Wells’ song “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” It was 1952, and Wells’ unlikely hit was climbing the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Without Kitty Wells, there might be no Taylor Swift. Or Miranda Lambert. Or Loretta Lynn. She was THE pioneer, the first female singer with enough spunk and fire to get noticed in ...

Wells' 1952 hit 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels' was the first No. 1 by a woman soloist on the country music charts. Kitty Wells, the first female superstar of country music, has died at the ...

Kitty Wells, who died Monday in her home in Madison, Tenn., was known as a major figure in the early foundation of country music. WSJ's rock and pop critic Jim Fusilli explains on Off Duty how Wells ...

Click to open image viewer. The Queen of Country Music, Kitty Wells, (b. 1918) emerged in 1952 as the first female country vocalist to win and sustain major stardom. She continued to work a full ...

Singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell’s earliest memories of Kitty Wells are tied to family. Her people hail from West Tennessee, she told The Daily Times this week, and in the rural landscape descending ...

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music" who opened the door to a host of female country music headliners, died on Monday at her home in Nashville of complications from a stroke ...

Kitty Wells, the first female superstar of country music, has died at the age of 92. The singer's family says Wells died at her home Monday after complications from a stroke.