Judy Collins
Judith Marjorie Collins is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning nearly seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her…
Folk Music
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Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge is an American singer and recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, her songs were on Billboard magazine’s pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts, and she won two Grammy…
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June Carter Cash
Valerie June Carter Cash was an American country singer, songwriter, comedienne, actress, and author. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of…
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Irene Cara
Irene Cara Escalera was an American singer and actress who rose to prominence for her role as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 musical film Fame, and for recording the film’s title song…
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Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer and songwriter best known for her 1981 hit single, “Bette Davis Eyes”. She embarked on a solo career as a songwriter and performer in the early…
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American country and folk music singer-songwriter. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C.-area clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records. Although her first…
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Debbie Boone
Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, “You Light Up My Life”, which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the…
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Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte’s career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first…