Biography
Kitty Wells became the first female country superstar with her 1952 smash "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels." Born Ellen Muriel Deason on August 30, 1919, in Nashville, the young singer was dubbed Kitty Wells by her husband Johnnie Wright, half of the hitmaking country duo Johnnie and Jack, when she joined his traveling show in the late 1930s. Following her breakthrough solo hit, Wells became known as "The Queen of Country Music" and rema...Read more