Biography
Kenny Rogers - American musician, singer, composer and actor. The author of more than 120 singles of different genres sold about 100 million entries worldwide and received many awards, such as Grammy, ACM and CMA, and was also recognized as a favorite singer of all times in a joint survey of Today and People. After completing the stage career, Rogers became an entrepreneur and opened the chain of restaurants Kenny Rogers Roasters.Childhood and youth
Kenneth Ray Rogers was born on August 21, 1938 in Houston, Texas, in a large family with Irish and Indian roots. His mother Lucille Lois Esther worked as a nurse, and Fald Edward Floyd Rogers was a professional carpenter.
Kenny graduated from the Secretary of Worton and in high school organized a group called Scholars. Since then, the music has become an integral part of the life of Rogers, who began his career of the solo artist in the late 50s.
In the youth of Kenny, he preferred to play rock and roll and psychedelic, and matured, switched to Country music and achieved success and recognition, performing American folklore songs.
Music
The first hit Rogers was the composition that Crazy Feeling, recorded in the late 1950s. The song sounded on the radio and had a commercial success. When sales fell, the Contractor joined the Bobby Doyle Three jazz team as a bass guitarist and participated in the album recorded at the Columbia Records studio.
After the collapse of the group in 1965, Kenny worked with such musicians as Mickey Guilly and Eddie Arnold, and in a year he became a singer and a double bassist of the New Christy Minstrels folk ensemble. The new team did not bring the desired success, and soon Rogers and other participants left the project and organized the first Edition. Musicians recorded a number of hits that have secured in American pop and country charts.
In 1976, Kenny left the group and began the solo career by signing a contract with the label United Artists. The debut album called Love Lifted Me did not add a popularity singer. Kenny remained on the periphery of country music until 1977, when Single Lucille took the 1st place in the charts of 12 countries and raised the 2nd record of the artist on the top line Billboard Country Album Chart.
Having achieved recognition, Rogers recorded The Gambler multiplatin disk, which included world-famous songs of Coward of The County and She Believees in Me. In the late 1970s, Kenny united with the legendary country singer Dotti West to record a series of albums. This collaboration brought to performers 2 CMA awards, 2 "Grammy" nominations and the Music City News Award prize for the records of the Every Time Two Fools Collide and Classics.
For several years, the duet concerts collected stadiums, and such hits like Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight, What Are We Doin 'In Love, All i Ever Need Is You and Till I Can Make It On My Own became a model of classic country and Passed in the history of world music. Later in the kinobiographies of Dotty West Rogers noted that the lion's share of success belonged to the singer who performed the composition so emotionally that no one in the hall remained indifferent.
In 1980, Kenny's partnership began with Lionel Richie, a famous pop artist who wrote and highlighted Lady Superhit, who became the most loud commercial success of Rogers. For funds from the sale of the single, the musician released a video clip, acquired real estate in Los Angeles and opened the most modern recording studio at that time.
In 1983, the singer recorded a duet album with such performers as Barry Gibb from Bee Gees and the world famous Dolly Parton. Eyes That See In The Dark received a platinum certificate for sale 2 million copies, and the song Islands In The Stream headed the list of hot hits of the Billboard magazine.
The next few years Rogers wrote musical works that held the leading position in the charts of the country. In 1985, the Contractor participated in the recording of the WE ARE WORLD song in support of the starving people in Africa and made a concert at the Giants Stadium.
In the 1990s, the musician's career came a lull that lasted before the release of the BUY ME A ROSE single and a collection of hits called 42 Ultimate Hits. The long-awaited Solnik Water & Bridgees came out in 2006 and marked the 50th anniversary of the Creative career Rogers. The song Calling Me, recorded in conjunction with Don Henley, has become a holy and nominee Gremmy Prize 2007.
In subsequent years, the musician was engaged in the release of records with the compositions of past years and worked on a new material that entered the album You Can't Make Old Friends. In the title track, Kenny returned to cooperation with Dolly Parton, for many years remaining a colleague and a friend of the artist. The song hit only on the 57th place of the Billboard hit and was overwritten for the dishographic of the singer. Rogers included in the Hall of Country Music Fame and provided a place on one of the main sites of the Glastonbury festival.
In 2015, the Contractor announced the completion of the Creative Career and went to a farewell tour called The Gambler's Last Deal. The final concert in Nashville took place on October 25, 2017, where Linda Davis, Lineel Richie, Justin Moore, Dolly, Patone, and others joined Rogers on the scene of Bridgestoun-Arena.
Personal life
Rogers were not limited to music. He starred in movies and on television and was the lead and teller in the series "Real West". In the 1980s, Kenny was fond of photography and became the author of the art albums "America Kenny Rogers" and "Your and My Friends".
In 1991, the musician opened the Kenny Roasters restaurant chain, which was processed in the MADTV comedian show and on Saturday Late Night With Conan O'Brien.
Loves of women, Kenny repeatedly married and divorced. His spouses were Janis Gordon, Jane Rogers, Margo Anderson and Maryann Gordon. The singer was warmly related to each of his wives, but constant tours destroyed relations and marriages disintegrated.
In the late 1990s, the father of three children got acquainted with the waitress named Wanda Miller and soon made her an offer. On June 1, 1997, the couple got married, and since then, a loving friend appeared in the personal life of Kenny, who became the mother of two children, twins Justin and Jordan.
The spouses settled in a picturesque estate, in Georgia and after the care of the musician retirement was engaged in business and arrangement of the territory.
Kenny Rogers now
In 2019, Kenny Rogers entered the list of 35 richest actors, earning $ 250 million. Now he is devoting all his free time in the family, leaving the creative and business career in the background.
According to the musician, a pledge of a happy life is the well-being of loved ones living together and caring for each other.
Discography
- 1976 - Love Lifted Me
- 1978 - The Gambler
- 1981 - Share Your Love
- 1983 - EYES THAT SEE IN THE DARK
- 1987 - I Prefer The Moonlight
- 1989 - Something Inside So Strong
- 1991 - Back Home Again
- 1993 - If Only My Heart Had A Voice
- 2006 - Water & Bridgees
- 2013 - You Can't Make Old Friends