Kenny Rogers Biography

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Kenny Rogers
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Kenny Rogers is a musical chameleon, a singer whose work has ranged from folk to pop jazz to country to pop to pop country to Vegas and crossed over into TV. Born in Houston in either 1937, 1938 or 1941 (thee different sources, three different dates), Rogers was the fourth of eight children. His initial recorded work was in 1955 with a group called the Scholars, who did three songs, including "Kangewah," said to have been written by gossip columnist Louella Parsons. And he occasionally got together with another neighborhood kid named Mickey Gilley to sing the hits of the day. Leaving college after a year, he joined light jazz groups led by Bobby Doyle and then Kirby Stone and then moved to Los Angeles in 1966, joining the folk group The New Christy Minstrels. A year later, he and fellow Minstrel Mike Settle put together the First Edition and made a major hit, "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," which scored a No. 5 on the charts in 1968, the first of seven hits into 1970 for that aggravation. One of Rogers' signature hits remains "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town," a First Edition hit in 1969 that went to No. 6. He embarked on a solo career in 1975 and beginning in 1977 placed 15 hits on the charts into the '80s, including "Lady," which was his only No. 1 (six weeks at the top). He's had four others on the charts with duet partners Dolly Parton, Sheena Easton, Kim Carnes and Carnes and James Easton. He's had country chart hits, too, with Dottie West and Ronnie Milsap. Rogers took his big hit "The Gambler" and turned it into a major extravaganza, the song becoming a TV movie and helping Rogers move into an acting sub-career. He's also seen in a series of TV Western documentaries in a cowboy image. His son, Kenny Rogers Jr., began his own career in 1989 after singing backup vocals on his dad's records, having some success with "Take Another Step Closer." When not performing Kenny breeds Arabian horses and cattle on a huge farm in Georgia, owns several homes in Southern California, and has business savvy that helps support some 200 employees. With his raspy voice he's made a name for himself, even being interviewed on network TV by Barbara Walters, making the point that he is a mainstream pop song stylist who's crossed over from his early and later country stances. Kenny Rogers once told an interviewer that the thing he dreads the most in touring is the constant approaches of Kenny Rogers lookalikes with gray beards. Whatta life!

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