Bio on lorrie morgan
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Lorrie Morgan on her life, book and 'bro country'
If any of us had been living a life similar to Lorrie Morgan’s, we’d need to write two tell-all books, too.
Morgan, a second-generation Nashville star, is known for a “dramatic” (her word) personal life as much as for hit songs like “Except for Monday” and “What Part of No.” She’s the daughter of the late Country Music Hall of Famer George Morgan, and she has thrice married one of her country-singing peers – Jon Randall, Sammy Kershaw and Keith Whitley, the Kentuckian who died in 1989 at age 33 and has become a legend to many country fans. She has also dated the late U.S. Senator Fred Thompson and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman.
Her first memoir, “Forever Yours, Faithfully: My Love Story,” was published 20 years ago; it was time for part two.
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“You wouldn’t believe the next book,” she laughs. The autobiography is forthcoming and does not yet have a title. “It covers from the time I was in grade school until where I’m at now. It’s mostly since I got my record deal. My dramatic life, as most pe
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Lorrie Morgan is a Nashville native who is the daughter of Country Music Hall of Fame member George Morgan. She made her debut on the Grand Ole Opry stage at age 13, singing "Paper Roses." Her father died suddenly of a heart attack at age 51. She was l6 at the time and just beginning her musical career. Lorrie Morgan began making her own records shortly thereafter and was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry at just 24 years old.
Morgan married fellow country singer Keith Whitley in 1986. She was signed to RCA Records in 1987, and her onslaught of hits began the following year. Whitley's tragic death of an alcohol overdose in 1989 left her a widowed working mother. Their duet "Til a Tear Becomes a Rose" earned her a 1990 CMA award.
Her first three albums, Leave the Light On (1989), Something in Red (1991) and Watch Me (1992), all earned Platinum Record awards. Her Greatest Hits collection (1999) is also Platinum. War Paint (1994), Greater Need (1996) and Shakin' Things Up (1997) are all Gold Record winners.
She sang "The Sad Cafe" on Common Threads: Songs of the Eagles, which was named the CMA Album of the Year in 1994. Country fans voted Lorrie Morgan their TNN/Music City
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Loretta Lynn "Lorrie" Morgan (born on June 27, 1959 in Nashville, Tennessee) enquiry an Land country congregation singer.
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