Wanda Jackson
USA
Born: 20 October 1937
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Traditional Country, Rockabilly, Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots, Country Gospel, Honky Tonk
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Wanda Jackson was only halfway through high school when, in 1954, country singer Hank Thompson heard her on an Oklahoma City radio show and asked her to record with his band, the Brazos Valley Boys. By the end of the decade, Jackson had become one of America's first major female country and rockabilly singers. Jackson was born in Oklahoma, but her father Tom -- himself a country singer who quit because of the Depression -- moved the family to California in 1941. He bought Wanda her first guitar two years later, gave her lessons, and encouraged ...
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