Emmilou harris personal biography
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Emmylou Harris
(1947-)
Who Is Emmylou Harris?
Emmylou Harris was performing in D.C.-area bars when she met singer Gram Parsons, who became her mentor.
After his death in 1973, she released her major label solo debut album, Pieces of the Sky (1975). Several other albums followed, such as Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (1978) and Blue Kentucky Girl.
In 1985, Harris reinvented her sound by mixing several genres in her autobiographical album, The Ballad of Sally Rose.
Emmilou harris personal biography
Early Career
Country singer, songwriter and musician Emmylou Harris was born April 2, 1947, in Birmingham, Alabama. Harris' father was a decorated Marine Corps pilot who spent 16 months as a prisoner of war in Korea during the early 1950s.
The family moved a great deal, and while Harris spent most of her childhood in North Carolina, she attended high school in Woodbridge, Virginia, on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.
Harris studied drama at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro before dropping