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Kenny Rogers

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Also known as Kenneth Donald Rogers, Kenneth Ray Rogers, Kenny Ray Rogers

American country singer (1938–2020)

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Kenny Rogers was an American musician whose career spanned from 1958 until his death in 2020. He is described as a GRAMMY® Award-winning superstar who achieved exceptional success over a period of more than six decades. His musical style is categorized under country, classic country, and oldies, with tags also identifying him as a male vocalist.

Rogers has been recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. He is the author of 34 works, including titles such as "Dole presents cooking with Kenny Rogers." His discography includes songs with lyrics like "Sing your song sweet music man, I believe in you." and "Something's got a hold on me." He maintained an official website and had a significant online presence, with 163,518 social media followers and 953,615 listeners on Last.fm.

Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Firecrawl, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
34

Top works

  • Dole presents cooking with Kenny Rogers
  • 10. 15 Quake and Megatsunami Due in Hawaii Approximately 19 July 2015
  • Appendix 2
  • 10. 15 Quake and Megatsumani Due in Hawaii Approximately 06 August 2015
  • 10. 15 Quake and Megatsunami Due in Hawaii Approximately 04 May 2016

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1938-08-21
Active to
2020-03-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
953,615
Total plays
9,886,614

Tags

countryclassic countrykenny rogersmale vocalistsoldies

Kenneth Ray Rogers (born Kenneth Donald Rogers; August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter and actor. He was associated primarily with country music but achieved commercial success across multiple genres, including pop, rock, folk, and jazz. Over the course of his career, he recorded more than 120 hit singles and topped the country and pop album charts for more than 200 cumulative weeks in the United States. He sold over <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kenny+Rogers">R

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.

    · 1986 · cited 63,586x

  2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,612x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,760x

  4. Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data

    · 2021 · cited 15,043x

  5. A More Accurate Method To Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum Creatinine: A New Prediction Equation

    · 1999 · cited 12,275x

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Quotes

  • “I see the town Where we were born, I see the place We were raised, I see all the things you wanted That I never gave. I see sadness, I see sorrow, I see pain in your face, But I just can't see A stranger in my place.”
  • “I can see now Where you might grow tired of dreams That don't come true, I can see where I have fallen short Of the things I promised you. I can see now through my tear filled eyes no love on your face, I must get used to seein' strangers in my place.”
  • “You touched my soul with your beautiful song You even had me singin' along right with you, you said "I need you", then you changed the words and added harmony Then you sang the song you had written for me to someone new Oh, but nobody sings a love song quite like you do Oh, and nobody else can make me sing along Nobody else can make me feel things are right When I know they're wrong, Nobody sings a love song quite like you.”
  • “Sing your song sweet music man, I believe in you.”
  • “Something's got a hold on me It's cheap but it ain' free Love or somethin like it's got a hold on me.”
  • “Right when a man's, doin all that he planned And he thinks he's got just what he needs Life will deliver, a shot that will shiver him Drivin him down to his knees Make him start giving, living, livin' again. Well it's your mind, that tricks you in believin' everytime Love will turn you around, turn you around Well it's your heart, that talks you into stayin' where you are Love will turn you around, turn you around.”

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Official website

Kenny Rogers

GRAMMY® Award-winning superstar Kenny Rogers enjoyed exceptional success during his storied career of over six decades.

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Encyclopedic overview

Kenneth Donald Ray Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences, but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His fame and career spanned multiple genres—jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013.

In the late 1950s, Rogers began his recording career with the Houston-based group the Scholars, who first released "The Poor Little Doggie". After some solo releases, including 1958's "That Crazy Feeling", Rogers then joined a group with jazz singer Bobby Doyle. In 1966, he became a member of the folk ensemble the New Christy Minstrels, playing double bass and bass guitar, as well as singing. In 1967, several members of the New Christy Minstrels and he left to found the group the First Edition, with whom he scored his first major hit, "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", a psychedelic rock song, which peaked at number five on the Billboard charts. As Rogers took an increased leadership role in the First Edition following the success of 1969's "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town", the band gradually changed styles to a more country feel. The band broke up in 1975–76, and Rogers embarked on a long and successful solo career, which included several successful collaborations, including duets with singers Dottie West, Dolly Parton, and Sheena Easton, and a songwriting partnership with Lionel Richie. His signature song, 1978's "The Gambler", was a crossover hit that won him a Grammy Award in 1980, and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. He developed the Gambler persona into a character for a successful series of television films starting with 1980's Emmy-nominated Kenny Rogers as The Gambler.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kenny Rogers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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