She was the high school class valedictorian, and she was beyond smart. She earned a drama scholarship there, and she took advantage of it. She studied music while at university. Shockingly, she did not finish college. She eventually grew tired of her studies and made the decision to drop out and pursue her career in music. She wanted to move to New York and see where that would take her. Her first husband was Tom Slocum. They married in and divorced only a year later. They did, however, have a daughter.
Her name is Mika Hallie Slocum. She married Brian Ahern in and divorced him in They have a daughter by the name of Meghann Ahern. She married Paul Kennerley in and divorced him in She did not marry again. It was when she welcomed her first and only grandchild. Her daughter gave birth to a little girl she calls Prudence. Emmylou Harris never remarried after her third marriage fell apart, but she also keeps her personal life very much to herself.
She was a folk singer doing what she could in Washington D. Emmylou Harris is a wealthy woman. Ahern and Harris were married in January , and Ahern would helm all of Harris' next 10 albums. She recorded her second album, the top-selling Elite Hotel , with a new backup band called the Hot Band, which included two sidemen who played with Elvis Presley. Anchored by the success of two No. Blue Kentucky Girl was Harris' sixth straight gold album.
She also sang guest vocals on Bob Dylan's album Desire. Harris gave up touring while pregnant with her second child, Meghann, and instead recorded a hit Christmas album, Light of the Stable , with a title single that featured guest vocals by Dolly Parton , Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt.
The acoustic bluegrass album Roses in the Snow also went gold, as did Evangeline , a compilation of songs left off previous albums. After two less successful studio albums 's Cimarron and 's White Shoes and one live effort, 's Last Date , Harris and Ahern separated in , and she moved back to Nashville.
Joining forces with the singer-songwriter Paul Kennerley, with whom she had worked before, Harris wrote and recorded a semi-autobiographical album, The Ballad of Sally Rose The album had mediocre sales, but was seen by critics as a defining moment in the evolution of Harris' unique musical style, a blend of pop, folk, gospel and blues mixed with a strong dose of pure, traditional country.
After touring together in , Harris and Kennerley were married. Harris made an auspicious beginning in the s with the release of Brand New Dance and Duets , the latter was a compilation of her earlier hits with artists such as George Jones, Willie Nelson and Gram Parsons. With a new backup band, the Nash Ramblers, she released a second live album, At the Ryman Her marriage to Kennerley also ended that year.
After the release of Cowgirl's Prayer and Songs of the West , Harris switched gears, teaming with the producer Daniel Lanois best known for his work with such artists as Dylan, U2 and Peter Gabriel to record her most experimental album to that date, Wrecking Ball More rock-oriented than Harris' previous albums, Wrecking Ball showcased Harris' throaty vocals on tracks written by, among others, Young the title track, which featured Young on backing vocals and Jimi Hendrix "May This Be Love".
That same year, she released a three-album retrospective, Portraits , including selected songs from her years with Warner Bros. She also toured with the popular all-female Lilith Fair and further strengthened her ties to a new generation of fans and performers. In , Harris released her first album of original material in five years, the acclaimed Red Dirt Girl , which featured appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa and Dave Matthews.
Harris released her next album, Stumble into Grace , in In , for her extensive work in country music, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Harris released her 21st studio album in , Hard Bargain, which showed the singer paying tribute to her fallen mentor Gram Parsons. She released a duets album with old band mate Rodney Crowell called Old Yellow Moon in which went on to win a Grammy for Best Americana album.
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