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Country singer Kitty Wells, the most successful and influential female country singer of the 1950s and early ’60s and one of a handful of women to have significant impact at a time when the music was ...

When a queen dies, a nation stops to grieve. For country music, the passing of Queen Kitty Wells was no less of an event, though it feels appropriate to observe it not with pomp and grandiose gestures ...

Kitty Wells, the preeminent female country vocalist of the 1950s, died in Nashville on Monday. She was 92. She was the first of a breed: The late historian Charles Wolfe wrote that Wells’ ’50s ...

Kitty Wells, the preeminent female country vocalist of the 1950s, died in Nashville on Monday. She was 92. She was the first of a breed: The late historian Charles Wolfe wrote that Wells’ ’50s ...

Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music" who broke down barriers in the 1950s for women in the genre, died on Monday aged 92, a family friend said. Jay McDonald, an associate at Junction Recording ...

Kitty Wells, the long-reigning “Queen of Country Music” and the first woman to reach No. 1 on the country chart with her attitude-changing hit “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” died Monday ...

Country music icon Kitty Wells died at her home in Nashville on July 16 of complications resulting from a stroke. She was 92. Known as the “Queen of Country Music,” Wells’ career spanned more than ...

Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music" who broke down barriers in the 1950s to women in the genre, died Monday at her home in Nashville, Tennessee, a source close to the family said. She was 92.