ARTIST

Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss figures to be one of the most influential women in country music over the next generation, a talent the caliber of Dolly Parton or Emmylou Harris before her. A bluegrass superstar by the time she turned 18, Krauss has developed her music and her career at her own pace. She's stayed with an independent record company when every major label in Nashville dreams of signing her, and she's expanded bluegrass's musical vocabulary beyond what many expected it could contain.

Born July 23, 1971, in Champaign, Illinois, Krauss picked up the fiddle early and started winning competitions so fast that she signed to Rounder Records at 14 and released her first album, 1987's Too Late To Cry, about the same time she got her driver's license. Her band...
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