Alison Krauss (Alison Maria Krauss) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician born on July 23, 1971 in Decatur, Illinois, United States.
She is famously known for her best songs, has released fourteen albums, which have appeared on numerous soundtracks, and has helped renew interest in bluegrass music in the United States.
ALISON KRAUSS AGE
Alison Krauss was born on 23 July 1971 (47 years old in 2018)
HEIGHT OF ALISON KRAUSS
Alison Krauss stands at a height of 1.7m (weighs 57kg)
NET WORTH OF ALISON KRAUSS
Alison Krauss has an estimated net worth of $ 16 million.
ALISON KRAUSS FAMILY
Alison Krauss was born to Louise Krauss (mother) and Fred Krauss (father). His father was a German descendant and his mother was an Italian descendant. She grew up in Decatur with her brother.
ALISON KRAUSS SIBLING
Alison Krauss has a brother Viktor Krauss who is also an American musician.
ALISON KRAUSS HUSBAND
Alison Krauss was married to Pat Bergeson in 1997, but they divorced in 2001. Her ex-husband is also an American musician. She has one she had with her divorced husband.
ALISON KRAUSS CHILDREN
Alison Krauss has a son Sam Bergeson who is also a singer and songwriter. He was born 0n 1999.
ALISON KRAUSS EDUCTION
Alison Krauss attended Champaign Central High School. She went on to and joined the classical violin studio at the University of Illinois hometown at Urbana-Champaign.
ALISON KRAUSS MUSIC CAREER
Alison Krauss began her musical career at the age of 5, but switched to bluegrass. She says she was interested in music when her mother was trying to find interesting things for me to do ”and“ she wanted to involve me in music, as well as in art and sport ”. At the age of 8 he started participating in local talent contests and at 10 he had his own band. At 13, she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her ‘The Most Promising Violinist in the Midwest’. It was also called ‘Virtuoso’ by Vanity Fair Magazine.
He has released fourteen albums, which have appeared on numerous soundtracks, and has been helped to renew his interest in bluegrass music in the United States. His soundtrack performances led to further popularity, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, an album also credited for raising American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to his performance at the 2004 Academy Awards. In 2018 he won 27 Grammy Awards out of 42 nominations. She is the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy Awards history. In 1991 she was the second youngest winner (she is currently the ninth youngest).
ALISON KRAUSS EARLY CAREER
Alison Krauss made her recording debut in 1985 on the independent album, Different Strokes, with her brother Viktor Krauss, Swamp Weiss and Jim Hoiles. From the age of 12 she performed with bassist and songwriter John Pennell in a band called ‘Silver Rail’, replacing their previous violinist Andrea Zonn. Pennell later changed the band’s name to Union Station after another band was discovered under the name Silver Rail. Pennell remains one of his favorite songwriters and wrote some of his early works including the popular ‘Every Time You Say Goodbye’.
He then signed to Rounder Records in 1987, also released his debut album when he was 16 the song was Too Late to Cry with Union Station as his backup band. Her debut solo album was quickly followed by her first group album with Union Station in 1989, Two Highways. The album includes traditional tracks’ Wild Bill Jones’ and ‘Beaumont Rag’, along with a bluegrass interpretation of the Allman Brothers’ ‘Midnight Rider’.
Her contract with Rounder required her to alternate between releasing a solo album and an album with Union Station, and she released the solo album I’ve Got That Old Feeling in 1990. It was her first album to go up. on the Billboard charts, peaking. among the top seventy-five of the national ranking. The album was also a major milestone in his career when he won his first Grammy Award, the single ‘Steel Rails’ was his first Billboard single and the title single ‘I’ve Got That Old Feeling’. it was the first song he recorded a music video for.
ALISON KRAUSS RISING CAREER
Alison Krauss released her second Union Station album Every Time You Say Goodby, and was released in 1992, and went on to win her second Grammy Award for best bluegrass album of the year. She then joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1993 at the age of 21. She was the youngest cast member at the time and the first bluegrass artist to join Opry in twenty-nine years. He also collaborated on a project with the Cox family in 1994, a bluegrass album called I Know Who Holds Tomorrow. Mandolin and guitarist Dan Tyminski replaced Tim Stafford at Union Station in 1994. Towards the end of the year, Krauss recorded his single ‘Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart’ with the band Shenandoah,
Also in 1994, Krauss partnered with Suzy Bogguss, Kathy Mattea and Crosby, Stills and Nash to contribute ‘Teach Your Children’ to the Red Hot + Country AIDS benefit album produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 1997, he recorded voice and violin for ‘Half a Mind’, on Tommy Shaw’s 7 Deadly Zens album. He released his solo music Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection, with compilations of old releases and some covers of his favorite works by other artists, was released in 1995. Some of these covers include ‘Oh Atlanta’ by Bad Company, ‘Baby, Now That I’ve Found You’ by The Foundations and Dan Schafer, which was used in the Australian hit comedy The Castle, and in The Beatles’ ‘I Will’. A cover of ‘When You Say Nothing at All’ by Keith Whitley peaked at number three on the Billboard Country Chart; the album reached the top fifteen of the Billboard 200 charts of all genres and sold two million copies to become Krauss’s first double platinum album.
She was also nominated for four Country Music Association Awards and won them all. In 1997 he released his Union Station album So Long So Wrong. Which led her to win the Grammy Award for best bluegrass album. One critic said his sound was ‘rather non-traditional’ and ‘will probably change quite a lot … minds on bluegrass’. The album includes the track ‘It Doesn’t Matter’, which was included in the first episode of the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and was included on the 1999 Buffy soundtrack. It has another solo music from Forget. About It, including one of his two songs to appear on Billboard’s contemporary adult chart, ‘Stay’. The album has been certified gold and ranked in the top seventy-five on the Billboard 200 and in the top five of the national rankings. Additionally, the track ‘That Kind of Love’ was included in another episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
ALISON KRAUSS CURRENT CAREER
Alison Krauss left the station’s syndicate in 1998 and released another by Jerry Douglas’s famous Dobro player. Douglas had provided studio support to Krauss records since 1987’s Too Late to Cry. Their next album, New Favorite, was released on August 14, 2001. The album won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, with the single ‘The Lucky One’ which also won a Grammy. New Favorite was followed by the double platinum double album Live in 2002 and a DVD release of the same live performance in 2003. Both the album and DVD were recorded during a performance at the Louisville Palace and both the album that the DVD have been certified double platinum. Also in 2002 she sang a voice for one of the characters in Eight Crazy Nights.
He believes the group that ‘were probably the most unprepared they’ve ever been’ for the album and that the songs were chosen based on need rather than planned in advance. He also performed a duet with Brad Paisley on his album Mud on the Tires on the single ‘Whiskey Lullaby’. The single was quickly ranked in the top fifty of the Billboard Hot 100 and in the top five of the Hot Country Songs, and won the Country Music Association Awards for ‘Best Music Event’ and ‘Best Music Video’ of the Year. In 2007, Krauss and Robert Plant released the collaborative album called Raising Sand. RIAA certified platinum, the album was nominated and won 5 Grammy Awards.
In the 51st edition of the Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Folk / Americana Album and Record of the Year (‘Please Read the Letter’). Krauss and Plant recorded a Crossroads special in October 2007 for Country Music Television, which premiered on February 12, 2008. In 2014, she and her band Union Station toured with Willie Nelson and Family, with special guests Kacey Musgraves and The Devil Makes Three. His Capitol Records released Windy City, an album of country and bluegrass classics, produced by Buddy Cannon and his first solo release in 17 years, on February 17, 2017. He received two 60th Annual Grammy Awards nominations for Best Country Solo. Performance and Best performance on American roots.
ALISON KRAUSS
Alison Krauss has won a record twenty-seven Grammy Awards. She surpassed Aretha Franklin for the most female wins at the 46th Grammy Awards, where Krauss won three, bringing her total to seventeen (Franklin won her sixteenth that night). The Recording Academy (which presents the Grammy Awards) gave her a special musical recognition in 2005. She has also won 14 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, 9 Country Music Association Awards, 2 Gospel Music Association Awards, 2 CMT Music Awards. It has also won 2 Academy of Country Music Awards and 1 Canadian Country Music Award.
In 2002, Country Music Television ranked Krauss 12th on their list of ’40 Greatest Women in Country Music’. Won the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, where she performed two nominated songs from the Cold Mountain soundtrack, Krauss was chosen by Hollywood shoe designer Stuart Weitzman to wear a pair of $ 2 million ‘Cinderella’ sandals with 4½-inch clear glass stiletto heels and two straps decorated with 565 Kwiat diamonds set on platinum. Feeling like a rather unattractive choice, Krauss said, ‘When I first heard, I was like,’ What were they thinking? ‘ I have worse feet than anyone else, who will be there that night! ‘ In addition to shoes inspired by fairy tales, Weitzman has equipped Krauss with a Palm Trēo 600 smartphone, bejeweled with 3,000 clear and topaz-colored Swarovski crystals. The shoes were returned, but Krauss kept the crystal-covered phone. Weitzman chose Krauss to show off his fashion at the urging of his daughters, who are fans of Krauss’s music.
ALISON KRAUSS SHOWS
Alison Krauss said she doesn’t like working in the studio where she had to repeatedly perform the same song, but she has come to enjoy studio work much like live performances. His favorite concert experiences include watching three Foreigner concerts on a single tour, a Dolly Parton concert, and a Larry Sparks concert. She appeared in Austin City Limits in 1992 and opened the show in 1995 with Union Station. The New Favorite tour, after the AKUS album of the same name, was supposed to begin on September 12, 2001 in Cincinnati, Ohio, but was delayed until September 28 in Savannah, Georgia following the September 11 terrorist attacks to which it took. part of the Down from the Mountain tour in 2002, which saw the participation of many artists from O Brother, Where Art Thou.
Down from the Mountain was followed by the Great High Mountain Tour, consisting of musicians from both O Brother and Cold Mountain, including Krauss. She also gave several notable minor performances, including at Carnegie Hall (with the Grand Ole Opry), on Lifetime Television in a concert of female performers, on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, where she sang two previously unrecorded songs. in none of his albums and a White House performance attended by then President Bill Clinton and then Vice President Al Gore.
She was also back in the White House, performing the song When You Say Nothing at All at country music shows. He also performed a tribute to The Everly Brothers in which he sang All I have to do is Dream with Emmylou Harris and When Will I Be Loved with Vince Gill. She was also invited by Taylor Swift to perform with her at the 2013 CMA and by Joshua Bell to perform with him on his Christmas album, and Bell said that ‘she (Krauss) is someone I have adored for so many years’. She performed in Northwest, Washington, DC on January 10, 2015, as part of ‘The Life and Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All Star Concert Celebration’, which is a tribute to Emmylou Harris.
ALISON KRAUSS OTHER WORK
Alison Krauss has made guest appearances on other records with lead vocals, harmonica vocals and violin. In 1987, at the age of 15, he played the violin on American musician Chris Vallillo’s album The Western Illinois Rag. In 1993 he recorded the vocals for the Phish song ‘If I Could’ in Los Angeles. In 1997 he sang vocal harmonies in both English and Irish on the Runaway Sunday album by traditional Irish band Altan. She had her only number on a hit in 2000, receiving vocal credits for ‘Buy Me a Rose’. He has contributed to numerous film soundtracks, most notably O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). She and Dan Tyminski have contributed to multiple songs, including ‘I’ll Fly Away’ (with Gillian Welch), ‘Down to the River to Pray’ and ‘
In the film, Tyminski’s voice in ‘I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow’ was used for George Clooney’s character. The soundtrack sold over seven million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002. Both Krauss and the surprisingly popular album have been credited with a renewed interest in bluegrass. He said, however, that he believes Americans already like bluegrass and other less-listened musical genres, and that the film simply provided easy exposure to the music. She did not appear in the film, at his request, because she was pregnant during filming. In 2007, he released A Hundred Miles or More: That is A Collection, his album of new songs and soundtrack tracks, and duets with artists such as John Waite, James Taylor, Brad Paisley and Natalie MacMaster. The album was a commercial success but received a lukewarm reception from critics. One of the tracks, ‘Missing You’, a duet with Waite (and a cover of his 1984 hit single), was similarly welcomed as a single. On August 11, the Great American Country television network aired a one-hour special, ‘Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles or More’, based on the album.
She appeared on Heart’s March 2010 concert DVD ‘Night at Sky Church’, providing lead vocals for the song ‘These Dreams’.
Other soundtracks Krauss has performed for include Twister, The Prince of Egypt, Eight Crazy Nights, Mona Lisa Smile, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Alias, Bambi II, and Cold Mountain. He contributed “Jubilee” to the 2004 documentary Paper Clips. The Cold Mountain songs he sang, ‘The Scarlet Tide’ with T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello, and ‘You Will Be My Ain True Love’ with Sting, were nominated for an Academy Award. He performed both songs at the 76th Academy Awards, the first with Costello and Burnett and the other with Sting. He produced Nickel Creek’s debut album (2000) and the follow-up This Side (2002), which won Krauss his first Grammy Award as a producer. She performed on Moody Bluegrass: A Nashville Tribute to The Moody Blues’.
ALBUM DI ALISON KRAUSS
- 1985: Different Strokes (Viktor Krauss debut, with voice and violin by Alison Krauss)
- 1987: Too late to cry
- 1989: two highways (with Union Station)
- 1990: I have that old feeling
- 1992: Every Time You Say Goodbye (con Union Station)
- 1994: I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (con la famiglia Cox)
- 1997: So Long So Wrong (con Union Station)
- 1999: Forget it
- 2001: New Favorite (con Union Station)
- 2004: Lonely Runs Both Ways (con Union Station)
- 2007: Raising Sand (con Robert Plant)
- 2011: paper plane (with Union Station)
- 2017: Windy City
ALISON KRAUSS FILMS
List of film credits |
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Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
2004 |
Paper clips |
Herself |
I just sing |
2002 |
Eight crazy nights |
Jennifer |
Only sung voice |
2000 |
Down the mountain |
Herself |
Documentary and concert film |
1997 |
Annabelle’s Wish |
Additional items |
Uncredited
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ALISON KRAUSS T AGAINST SHOWS
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
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2008 |
CMT Crossroads |
Performer |
con Robert Plant |
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2006 |
CMT Cross Country |
Performer |
con Vince Gill |
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2005
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Sesame Street |
Herself |
Episodio: ‘American Fruit Stand’ |
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1997 |
Miracle on the highway 31 |
Herself |
Television film |
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nineteen ninety six |
Austin city limits |
Herself |
5 episodes; 1996-2005 |
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1991 |
Hee Haw |
Herself |
Episode: ‘No. 22.21 ‘ |
ALISON KRAUSS SONGS
- When You Say Nothing
Live 2002 - Down to the river to pray
O brother, where are you? 2000 - Honey, now that I’ve found you
Live 2002 - I’ll fly away
O brother, where are you? 2000 - The Lucky
New Favorite 2001 - Ghost in this house
Forget it 1999 - Please read the letter
Raising the sand 2007 - Baby Mine
millenovecentonovantasei - Lie down next to me
2007 - A living prayer
Loneliness runs both ways 2004 - Gone Gone Gone
Raise the Sand 2007 - River In The Rain
Windy City 2017 - Rich Woman
Lifting the Sand 2007 - Dream of Me
Windy City 2017 - Simple love
1993 - Killing the Blues
Raising the Sand 2007 - He left no one but the baby
O brother, where are you? 2000 - Oh, Atlanta
Live 2002 - Sister Rosetta precedes us
Raising the sand · 2007 - How the World
Treats You 2003 - You Will Be My True Love
Cold Mountain (Music From the Miramax Motion Picture) 2003 - Steel Rails
Got That Old Feeling 1990 - I never cared about you
Windy city 2017 - That Kind Of Love
Forget It 1999 - Your Long Journey
Lifting the Sand 2007 - Lay My Burden
Paper Airplane · 2011 - Kind in my mind
Windy city 2017 - Stick With Me Baby
Lifting the Sand 2007 - In the palm of your hand
I know who holds tomorrow · 1994 - Losing you
Windy City 2017 - Whenever You Say Goodbye
Whenever You Say Goodbye 1992 - Wild Bill Jones
Due autostrade · 1989
