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CRYSTAL GAYLE OFFICIAL BIO:
Before country was cool, Crystal was class
Never has one reviewer captured a platinum clad, Grammy Award winning career so beautifully in so few words.
Crystal encapsulates everything the dazzling qualities of her name impliesalthough that name came to her in quite an unusual fashion. Crystal came at the suggestion of Brenda Gayle Webbs older sister, Loretta Lynnwho knowing there was already a Brenda Lee currently successful in the music industrysuggested her younger sibling adopt the name Crystal when she began recording.
In the mid 70s, Crystal was the focal point of her own one hour prime time special on CBS televisiona special that earned the glowing praise of viewers and critics alike. Chic, hip, and cool with a romantic mane of hair that swept around her ankles, in one evening of television Crystal Gayle moved country music to the highest platform it had yet reached in the eyes of the viewing and listening nation.
The blue eyed beauty from the Appalachian coal mining town of Paintsville, Kentucky would never again linger in the shadow of being Lorettas baby sister. Drop dead beautiful and dressed in designer threads, Crystal took country music to town on her arm in the 70s and introduced it to mainstream audiences.
Her first album project began a roll out of smash singles to come. Wrong Road Again, (her first of many hit singles with producer Allen Reynolds) became her debut Top 10 record. Ill Get Over You, became her first ..1 single. By her fourth album, We Must Believe In Magic, Crystal Gayle became the first female artist in country music history to achieve platinum album sales. Driving the engine of the album was the song that was to become her enduring career signature song to date: Dont It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.
Brown Eyes opened the worlds eyes to Crystal Gayle. She became a household name in homes, grand and small, from Louisville to Leningrad.
The glamour and the mystique of the Crystal Gayle phenomena made her an instantly in demand artist. From symphony halls to Carnegie Hallfrom the best kept stages in Las Vegas to the prestige of the London Palladium... one word "Crystal" crossed musical genres and oceans.
In the wakeher hit list of platinum and gold record sales was to be matched only by her awards and accolades. CMAs Female Vocalist Of The Year, for two consecutive years, she became a Grammy Award Winner for Best Female Vocal Performance, thanks to her beloved Brown Eyes a song that she today admits she has never grown tired of singing. Crystal swept the Academy Of Country Music Awards for three of their Top Female Vocalist statuettes. As her music and her career path widened to mainstream audiencesso did her accolades. She is the recipient of three American Music Awards voted by the nation as Americas Favorite Female Artist.
Breaking through the unusual genre boundaries faced by most artists has allowed Crystal Gayle a beautiful advantage: doing projects close to her heartjust for the sheer love of the music in question. One of the most meaningful was Crystal Gayle Sings The Heart And Soul Of Hoagy Carmichael, a stunning, critically acclaimed collection of 15 of the great composers favorite classics. One of my personal career highlights was getting to meet and sing with Hoagy on a television special, Crystal recalls. Crystal not only breathed new life into the Carmichael classics, but produced a must have album of her career that included such immortals as Stardust, and Two Sleepy People.
Success swept around her as gracefully as her trademarked long hair. Her inspirational album, Someday, was nominated for a Grammy. With the advent of the new millennium, Crystal recorded In My Arms, an enduring collection of childrens lullabies, The project was an outgrowth of her love for the littlest of listeners, and of her visit to Sesame Street to sing with Big Bird to a new generation of music lovers.
One of the most fitting honors in her career came in 1999 when Dont It Make My Brown Eyes Blue was recognized by ASCAP as one being one of the ten most performed songs of the 20th century.
Like fine wine time has been nothing but kind to Crystal Gayle.
Hi, U dont know me...lol My name is Justin W. How R U? You Are Beautiful!! Come check out my song...."WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME" Have A Rockin Week!! Keep In Touch!! Peace. JW
ALOHA CRYSTAL JUST WANTED TO STOP BY TO THANK YOU FOR THE FRIEND ADD I HAVE BEEN A FAN FOR SOMETIME NOW AND ITS AN HONOR TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS MUCH LOVE ALWAYS JUANITA
Hope you come back to Wabash, Indiana agian soon. You went to school with my mom & aunts. I also grew up in both of your hometowns. Paintsville, KY & Wabash, IN. Singers gotta keep on singin'!
Hi CRYSTAL, Puttin' the final touches on going to Nashville to record my C&W crossover album! All I can say is that I have one of the Greatest Producers alive! I'm very Happy and even more Excited, to say the least! And for all of you out there, YES DREAMS DO COME TRUE! All Peace & Love Lee
Thanks for adding me to ur list of friends. I love ur music also was at ur Ft.Lauderdale,Fl show back 91 @ The Swap Shop was at the later part of that year. Was pregnant w/my son at the time I saw u. Have a nice day....
thanks for adding me Crystal, i hope you remember meeting my son and I back stage at the Grand Ole' Opry, you and your husband both were extremely nice to us and made us feel like true family. we wish you all well, tell all of the rest of the family we would love to meet them. tonya and cody farmer add my son, hes no. 1 and no. 2 on my list.
Thanks for the add Crystal! I have loved your music since I was a little girl and I still enjoy it very much so. I never got to grow my hair out quite as long as yours, but that was the plan once upon a time! LOL! Take care and again, thanks for adding me!
GOOD MUSIC...........Thanks so much for joining my page :)! Great to add you as a friend!! Hope you like my music.....I really appreciate the support and you spreading the word to your friends!! Wish you the best, Blessings~~~ Giovy
