Keith Whitley - His Life and Career
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2022
- The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Keith Whitley, a premier vocal stylist and recording artist who helped define country music’s New Traditionalist movement in the 1980s.
Whitley made his mark in bluegrass in the 1970s after Ralph Stanley discovered Whitley and recruited the teenager for his Clinch Mountain Boys band. He spent about twelve years playing with Stanley and then with J. D. Crowe and the New South, but Whitley’s childhood musical heroes were hard-country singers such as Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, and Hank Williams, so he moved to Nashville to pursue recording as a mainstream country artist, starting in 1984.
Whitley’s rich, instantly identifiable baritone could convey melancholy, vulnerability, or devil-may-care exuberance. His solo career was barely five years long, but he earned eight Top Twenty songs during his lifetime, as well as six posthumously. His death of acute alcohol poisoning in 1989, at the age of thirty-four, left a promising and still-influential career unfinished.
Whitley was inducted along with Joe Galante and Jerry Lee Lewis.
To learn more about Whitley's career, visit his Hall of Fame member web page: www.countrymusichalloffame.or...
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Miluji zpěv Keitha Whitley, jeho hlas je jedinečný, nejlepší zpěvák jakého znám, je mi líto, že odešel tak brzy, zanechal po sobě krásné písně. Děkuji, že si je mohu poslouchat ❤
Keith Whitley, a true legend!
Great country music singer! Gone to soon he has it all!
I was blown away when Keith Whitley died. He still had a lot ahead for him. Ever since his passing I continue to celebrate his memory by listening to his timeless music. To me Keith is a true country icon.
You made it Keith and you deserve it hof 2022.
Greatest vocalist ever
Long overdue. In his short career. Keith made a lasting impact. God bless Jessie Keith Whitley.
He is missed every day by his fans. I didn’t start listening to his music til about 10 years ago or so. Sure would have loved to see him in person. Congratulations on his membership to the Country music hall of fame.
If it wasn’t for Keith, I never would have picked up a guitar. Not that I matter, but the man has inspired and continues to inspire hundreds of thousands of people.
The sadness in his eyes is so heart breaking
Beautiful music!
We miss him so very much . Keith gave me goose bumps when he sang love songs.
To me,
Keith was a direct link combining the old guard of country music to the new. He was the purest country music talent the world had seen or heard since Hank, Lefty, George and Merle. What somehow didn’t kill George Jones did kill Keith Whitley but from the ashes of his loss he left an impression of musical greatness for the world to always enjoy. I as a country singer think of Keith often, he still moves my soul like no other country singer ever has. Traditional Country music as a whole died with Keith that May morning in 1989. I am so glad to hear of Keith’s induction to the CMHOF. All I can say is it is long overdue ……..R.I.P. Kentucky bluebird 🎶