Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in the rural regions of the Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of American folk music and Western music. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its ...
Morgan Anastasia Gaddis, Brad Thompson, Jesse Keith Whitley
Parents
George Morgan
Siblings
Bethany Chamberlain, Candy Morgan, Marty Morgan, A Picture of Me, Good as I Was to You, Five Minutes, Valentine, NE, USA, Regina, SK, Canada, Prince Albert, SK, Canada
Nicknames
Country music , Country and Western , Country & Western
Awards
Country Music Association Award for Vocal Event of the Year, Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year
Nominations
Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year 1991, 1990; Academy of Country Music Award for Song of the Year 1993; Something in Red Academy of Country Music; Award for Female Vocalist of the Year 1993, 1992; Country Music Association Award for New Artist of the Year 1990; Academy ...
Movies
Lorrie Morgan: The Color of Roses, The Stranger Beside Me, New Ladies of Country, Ralph Emery: Country Legend's Series: Vol. 1, Honky Tonk Angels, Great Country, Valentine, NE, USA, Regina, SK, Canada, Prince Albert, SK, Canada
Star Sign
Cancer
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Fact
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Was not named for country singer Loretta Lynn. Lorrie Morgan was born in 1959, and Loretta Lynn wouldn't become a country star until the following year.
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Lorrie and her longtime label, BNA recently parted ways. Her final album with the label is Greatest Hits Collection II (rel'd 2/22/2000).
At the end of 2003, she and her husband, singer Sammy Kershaw, filed for divorce. The split apparently became violent and they took restraining orders out on each other. By July 2004, the couple were back together. On her July 5 appearance on Larry King Live (1985), she discussed the split, explaining that interference from outsiders put a lot of strain on their relationship but they pulled through and would remain a couple.
Appeared in Keith Whitley's music video (Class of '63).
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Her second husband, Keith Whitley, died of alcohol poisoning in 1989, before her singing career took off.
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Her father, Grand Ole Opry legend George Morgan, died of a heart attack in 1975, when Lorrie was 16 years old. Coincidentally, singer/actress Natalie Cole was 16 when her father (Nat 'King' Cole) died.
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Two children, Morgan Anastasia Gaddis (from her first husband), and Jesse Keith Whitley (her second husband, Keith Whitley).
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Had a secret affair with actor/U.S. Senator Fred Dalton Thompson (R-Tenn). Dated Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman (1993).
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