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• Grammy winner Alison Krauss is a bluegrass country singer who started out winning singing contests at the age of ten, and recorded her very first album at fourteen.CMT: Alison Krauss Bio

  Krauss along with Robert Plant won the 2009 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals, Record Of The Year and Album Of The Year. The pair was also nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.Official Site: 2009 Grammy Nominations

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: July 23, 1971
  2. Origin: Decatur, Illinois
  3. Years active: 1987 - present
  4. Label: Rounder
  5. Vocal Range: Soprano
  6. Has received 21 Grammy Awards, more than any other female in the history of the Grammys.

• Career

  Krauss has released fourteen albums and 27 singles. These singles include "I'll Fly Away" from the movie O Brother Where Art Thou? and a cover of Keith Whitley's "When You Say Nothing at All." She has performed with artists like Shania Twain, Brad Paisley and Vince Gill, and is scheduled for a tour with Robert Plant in 2008.

• Partial Discography

  • 1987: Too Late to Cry
  • 1989: Two Highways
  • 1990: I've Got That Old Feeling
  • 1992: Every Time You Say Goodbye
  • 1994: I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
  • 1997: So Long So Wrong
  • 1999: Forget About It
  • 2001: New Favorite
  • 2004: Lonely Runs Both Ways
  • 2007: Raising Sand

• Quotes

  ""When we make a record, we get the songs together that I like, and we do 'em how they should be done. I don't let anything else sway me."Yahoo! Music: Alison Krauss Interview

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