The death of Kitty Wells on Monday (July 16), at age 92, marked the passing of the first female star in the history of country music. In a simple statement on her website, Loretta Lynn writes, "Kitty ...

Singer Kitty Wells, whose hits such as “Making Believe” and “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” made her the first female superstar of country music, died Monday. She was 92. The singer’s ...

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music" who opened the door to a host of female country music headliners, died on Monday at her home in Nashville of complications from a stroke ...

NASHVILLE -- Before Kitty Wells, men didn’t just rule the roost in country music, they owned it. It wasn’t until her 1952 hit, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” that a solo female country ...

Wells sang about the real problems of postwar life and the sad side of domesticity. Kitty Wells revolutionized country music by becoming its first big female solo star. Wells died today at home in ...

Johnnie Wright, a member of the innovative country vocal duo Johnnie and Jack and the husband and manager to singer Kitty Wells, died of undisclosed causes Sept. 27 at his home in Madison, Tenn. He ...

The singer's career spanned eight decades, with hits including "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," a retort to Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side of Life.” By Erik Pedersen Kitty Wells - H 2012 ...

Kitty Wells, who was the first woman solo artist on the country music charts to score a number one hit, has died at the age of 92. She made it into the US history books with It Wasn't God Who Made ...