Alison Krauss Biography, Age, Height, Net Worth, Family, Siblings, Lyrics

BIOGRAPHY OF ALISON KRAUSS

Alison Krauss (Alison Maria Krauss) is an American bluegrass singer and musician born July 23, 1971 in Decatur, Illinois in the United States.

She is renowned for her best songs, she has released fourteen albums, which feature heavily on soundtracks, and helped to renew interest in bluegrass music in the United States.

HEIGHT OF ALISON KRAUSS

Alison Krauss is 1.7m tall (she weighs 57kg)

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ALISON KRAUSS NET WORTH

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). Her father was of German descent and her mother was of Italian descent. She was raised in Decatur with her brother.

ALISON KRAUSS BROTHER AND SISTER

Alison Krauss has a brother Viktor Krauss who is also an American musician.

HUSBAND OF ALISON KRAUSS

Alison Krauss was married to Pat Bergeson in 1997 but they divorced in 2001. Her former husband is also an American musician. She has one that she had with her divorced husband.

CHILDREN OF ALISON KRAUSS

Alison Krauss has a son Sam Bergeson who is also a singer and songwriter. He was born in 1999.

ALISON KRAUSS EDUCATION

Alison Krauss attended Champaign Central High School. She continued and joined the study of classical violin at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

MUSIC CAREER OF ALISON KRAUSS

Alison Krauss started her musical career at the age of 5, but switched to bluegrass. She says she was interested in music when her mother tried to find interesting things for me” and “wanted to involve me in music, in addition to art and sports”. At the age of 8 she started to participate in local talent contests and by 10 she had her own band. At age 13, she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship, and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her “Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest.” She was also called “Virtuoso” by Vanity Fair Magazine.

She released fourteen albums, which appeared on numerous soundtracks, it helped renew her interest in bluegrass music in the United States. His soundtrack performances led to greater popularity, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, an album also credited with sparking American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Oscars. In 2018, she won all 27 Grammy Awards on 42 nominations. She is the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in the history of the Grammy Awards. In 1991, she was the second-youngest winner (currently tied as 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 played with bassist and composer John Pennell in a band called ‘Silver Rail’, replacing their former 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 work, including the popular ‘Every Time You Say Goodbye’.

She then signed to Rounder Records, in 1987 she also released her first album when she was 16, the song was Too Late to Cry with Union Station as her backup band. His first solo album was quickly followed by his 1989 debut group album with Union Station, Two Highways. The album features the traditional tunes ‘Wild Bill Jones’ and ‘Beaumont Rag’, as well as a bluegrass rendition 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 climb the Billboard charts, peaking in the top seventy-five on the country chart. The album was also a career highlight as she won her first Grammy Award, the single ‘Steel Rails’ was her first single charted by Billboard, and the single ‘I’ve Got That Old Feeling’ was the first song of which she recorded a music video.

GROWING CAREER OF ALISON KRAUSS

Alison Krauss released her second Union Station album Every Time You Say Goodbye was released in 1992, and she won 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 the Opry in twenty-nine years. She also collaborated on a project with the Cox family in 1994, a bluegrass album called I Know Who Holds Tomorrow. Mandolin and guitar player Dan Tyminski replaced Tim Stafford at Union Station in 1994. At the end of the year, Krauss recorded with the band Shenandoah on his single ‘Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart’, which

Also in 1994, Krauss collaborated with Suzy Bogguss, Kathy Mattea, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash to contribute “Teach Your Children” to the Red Hot + Country AIDS charity album produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 1997, she recorded vocals and violin for ‘Half a Mind’, on Tommy Shaw’s 7 Deadly Zens album. She released her solo music from Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection, with a compilation of old versions and some covers of her favorite works by other artists, 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 ‘I Will’ by The Beatles. A cover of ‘When You Say Nothing at All’ by Keith Whitley reached number three on the Billboard charts; the album peaked in the top 15 of the Billboard 200 all genre chart and sold two million copies to become Krauss’ first double platinum album.

She has also been nominated for four Country Music Association awards and has won them all. In 1997, she released her union station album So Long So Wrong. Which led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. One reviewer said his sound was ‘rather non-traditional’ and ‘probably will change quite a bit… my mind about bluegrass.’ The track “It Doesn’t Matter” is included on the album, which was featured in the second season premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and was included on Buffy’s soundtrack in 1999. She has another music soloist from Forget About It, included one of his two tracks to appear on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, “Stay.” L’ album was certified gold and charted in the top seventy-five on the Billboard 200 and top five nationally. 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 union in 1998, and she released another renowned Dobro player from Jerry Douglas. Douglas had provided studio backup to Krauss Records since Too Late to Cry in 1987. Their next album, New Favorite, was released on August 14, 2001. The album won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, the single ‘The Lucky One’ also winning 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. The album and DVD were recorded during a performance at Louisville Palace and the album and DVD were certified double platinum. Also in 2002, she performed a singing voice for one of the characters in Eight Crazy Nights. She released her Lonely Runs Both in 2004.

She thinks the band “were probably the least prepared ever” for the album and the songs were chosen as needed rather than planned in advance. She also performed a duet with Brad Paisley on his album Mud on the Tires in the single ‘Whiskey Lullaby’. The single quickly charted in the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100 and the top five of 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 titled Raising Sand. Certified RIAA platinum, the album was nominated and won 5 Grammy Awards.

In the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Best Folk/American Contemporary Album, and Record of the Year (“Please Read the Letter”). Krauss and Plant taped a Crossroads special in October 2007 for the Country Music Television Network, which first aired on February 12, 2008. In 2014, she and her band Union Station toured with Willie Nelson and Family, featuring special guests Kacey Musgraves, and The Devil Makes Three. Her Capitol Records released Windy City, an album of country and bluegrass classics, produced by Buddy Cannon and her first solo release in 17 years, on February 17, 2017. She received two nominations at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Country Solo Performance and Best American Roots Performance.

ALISON KRAUSS AWARD

Alison Krauss has won a record twenty-seven Grammy Awards. She passed Aretha Franklin for the most female wins at the 46th Grammy Awards, where Krauss won three, bringing her total at the time to seventeen (Franklin won her sixteenth that night). The Recording Academy (which presents the Grammy Awards) presented her with a Special Award for Musical Achievement in 2005. She has also won 14 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, 9 Country Music Association Awards, 2 Gospel Awards Music Association, 2 CMT Music Awards. She has also won 2 Academy of Country Music Awards and 1 Canadian Country Music Award.

Country Music Television ranked Krauss 12th on their list of “40 Greatest Women in Country Music” in 2002. She won the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, where she performed two nominated songs from the Cold Mountain soundtrack , Krauss was chosen by the Hollywood shoe designer. Stuart Weitzman will wear a $2 million pair of “Cinderella” sandals with 4½-inch clear glass stiletto heels and two straps adorned with 565 Kwiat diamonds set in platinum. Feeling like a rather unglamorous choice, Krauss said, “When I first heard I was like, ‘What were they thinking? “I have the worst feet of anyone who will be there that night!” In addition to shoes inspired by fairy tales, Weitzman equipped Krauss with a Palm Trēo 600 smartphone, adorned with 3000 clear Swarovski crystals and topazes. The shoes were returned, but Krauss kept the crystal-covered phone. Weitzman chose Krauss to show off her fashion at the request of her daughters, who are fans of Krauss’ music.

PERFORMANCE BY ALISON KRAUSS

Alison Krauss said she disliked working in the studio where she had to perform the same song over and over, but came to love studio work much the same as performing on stage. . His own favorite concert experiences include watching three Foreigner concerts on a single tour, a Dolly Parton concert, and a Larry Sparks concert. She appeared on Austin City Limits in 1992 and opened the show in 1995 with Union Station. The New Favorite Tour, following AKUS’s album of the same name, was scheduled to begin September 12, 2001 in Cincinnati, Ohio, but was delayed until September 28 in Savannah, Georgia,

Down from the Mountain was followed by the Great High Mountain Tour, featuring musicians from O Brother and Cold Mountain, including Krauss. She has also given several notable small performances, including at Carnegie Hall (with the Grand Ole Opry), Lifetime Television in a female performers concert, on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, where she sang two songs ever previously recorded on any of his albums and a performance at the White House attended by then-President Bill Clinton and then-Vice President Al Gore.

She was also at the White House again, performing the song When You Say Nothing at All at country music concerts. She also performed an Everly Brothers tribute during which she 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 in his Christmas album, and Bell said that “she (Krauss) is someone I’ve adored ever since. so many years now”. She performed in Northwest, Washington, D.C. 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 WORKS

Alison Krauss has made guest appearances on other records on lead vocals, harmony vocals and violin. In 1987, at the age of 15, she played the violin on the album The Western Illinois Rag by American musician Chris Vallillo. In 1993, she recorded the vocals for the Phish song “If I Could” in Los Angeles. In 1997, she sang harmony vocals in English and Irish on Irish traditional band Altan’s album Runaway Sunday. She had her only number on a hit in 2000, receiving vocal credit for “Buy Me a Rose.” She has contributed to numerous film soundtracks including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). She and Dan Tyminski contributed to several tracks, including “I’ll Fly Away” (with Gillian Welch), “Down to the River to Pray” and “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow.”

In the film, Tyminski’s voice on “I’m a Man of Constant Pain” was used for the character of George Clooney. The soundtrack sold over seven million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002. Krauss and the surprisingly popular album have been credited with a resurgence of interest in the bluegrass. She said, however, that she believed Americans already loved bluegrass and other less-heard musical genres, and that the film simply provided easy exposure to the music. She did not appear in the film, at her own request, as she was pregnant during filming. In 2007, she released A Hundred Miles or More: that is A Collection, from her new songs album, music from the soundtrack and duets with artists such as John Waite, James Taylor, Brad Paisley and Natalie MacMaster. The album was commercially successful 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 also received as a single. On August 11, the Great American Country television network aired an hour-long special, “Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles or More,” based on the album. was also received as a single. On August 11, the Great American Country television network aired an hour-long special, “Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles or More,” based on the album. was also received as a single. On August 11, the Great American Country television network aired an hour-long 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. She contributed “Jubilee” to the 2004 documentary Paper Clips. The Cold Mountain songs she 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 Oscar. She performed both songs at the 76th Academy Awards, the first with Costello and Burnett, and the other with Sting. She produced Nickel Creek’s debut album (2000) and the sequel This Side (2002), which won Krauss her first Grammy Award as a producer. She performed on Moody Bluegrass: A Nashville Tribute to The Moody Blues”.

ALBUMS BY ALISON KRAUSS

• 1985: Different Strokes (first release by Viktor Krauss, with vocals and violin by Alison Krauss)
• 1987: Too Late to Cry
• 1989: Two Freeways (with Union Station)
• 1990: I Got That Old Feeling
• 1992: Every Time You Say Goodbye (with Union Station)
• 1994: I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (with The Cox Family)
• 1997: So Long So Wrong (with Union Station)
• 1999: Forget It
• 2001: New Favorite (with Union Station)
• 2004: Lonely Works Both Ways (with Union Station)
• 2007: Raising Sand (with Robert Plant)
• 2011: Paper Airplane (with Union Station)
• 2017: Windy City

ALISON KRAUSS MOVIES

ALISON KRAUSS T V SHOWS

ALISON KRAUSS SONGS

• When You Say Nothing
  Live · 2002
• Go down to the river to pray
  O brother, where are you? 2000
• Baby, Now That I Found You
  Live · 2002
• I will 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 Sand 2007
• Baby Mine
  one thousand nine hundred ninety six
• Lie down next to me
  2007
• A Living Prayer
  Alone Runs Both Ways 2004
• Gone Gone Gone
  Raising Sand 2007
• River in the Rain
  Windy City 2017
• Rich Woman
  Raising Sand 2007
• Dreaming of me
  Windy City 2017
• Single Love
  1993
• Kill the Blues
  Raising Sand 2007
• I left no one but the baby
  Oh brother, where are you? 2000
• Oh, Atlanta
  Live 2002
• Sister Rosetta Passes Us
  Raising Sand 2007
• How the World Treats You
  2003
• You’ll Be My True Love
  Cold Mountain (Miramax Film Music) 2003
• Steel Rails
  I Got That Old Feeling 1990
• I Never Cared About You
  Windy City 2017
• This Kind of Love
  Forget It · 1999
• Your Long Journey
  Raising Sand 2007
• Lengthen My Burden
  Paper Airplane · 2011
• Sweet on My Mind
  Windy City 2017
• Stay With Me Baby
  Raising Sand 2007
• In the Palm of Your Hand
  I Know Who Holds Tomorrow · 1994
• Lose You
  Windy City 2017
• Every Time You Say Goodbye
  Every Time You Say Goodbye · 1992
• Bill Jones Wild
  Two Highways 1989

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