Many of us grow up listening to country music, which is also known as country and western, and hillbilly music. It is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as American folk music and blues.
Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer. She broke down a female barrier in country music with her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonky Angels" which also made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts.
Kitty Wells died at the age of 92 on July 16, 2012 in Madison, TN from complications of a stroke. She is buried at Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville, TN.