Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette, de son vrai nom Virginia Wynette Pugh, est une chanteuse, actrice et scénariste américaine née le 5 mai 1942 dans le comté d'Itawamba, Mississippi (États-Unis). Tammy Wynette a été élevée par sa mère et sa grand-mère à Birmingham (Alabama). Esthéticienne de profession, elle chante dans les clubs pour gagner un peu d'argent supplémentaire et élever ses trois enfants. Elle s'installe à Nashville en 1966, où elle rencontre le succès. Stand By Your Man est n° 1 aux États-Unis en 1968 et obtient un retentissement international.

Elle se marie à George Jones en 1969, dont elle divorce en 1975.
Elle est décédée le 6 avril 1998 à Nashville.




Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998), was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists.
She was known as the First Lady of Country Music, and her best-known song, "Stand by Your Man", was one of the biggest selling hit singles by a woman in the history of the country music genre. Many of Tammy Wynette's hits dealt with classic themes of loneliness, divorce and the difficulties of male-female relationships. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, she dominated the country charts, scoring 17 number one hits. Along with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, she defined the role of female country vocalists in the 1970s.
Her 1969 marriage to country singer George Jones (which would end in divorce in 1975) created a country music "couple", following the prior success of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Jones and Wynette recorded a series of duet albums and singles, which charted throughout the 1970s, concurrent to their respective solo hits.

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