American singer, songwriter, and musician Emmylou Harris was born on April 2, 1947. Over the course of her career, she has published hundreds of albums and songs.
She has received 14 Grammy Awards, the Polar Music Prize, and countless other accolades. She was also inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1992. The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was given to her in 2018.
What is Emmylou Harris doing now?
There are six scheduled gigs for Emmylou Harris, who is presently touring one nation. The City Winery – Nashville in Nashville will host their next tour stop before they go on to The Sharon in The Villages.
As a solo artist, bandleader, composer interpreter, singer-songwriter, backup vocalist, and duet partner, Harris has a diverse body of work and albums. She has collaborated with several musicians.
Harris was born in North Carolina and raised in Woodbridge, Virginia, where she attended Gar-Field Senior High School and graduated as the class valedictorian. She received a theatre scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, where she started her musical studies and picked up the guitar to play songs by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez.
