Songstress Lorrie Morgan has sold over eight million records
\n\nincluding fourteen top ten hits\, twelve recorded albums and
\n\nfour Female Vocalist of the Year awards. She made her mark
\n\nwith what have now become timeless country standards\, &ldquo\;Five
\n\nMinutes\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;Except For Monday\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;Something In Red\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;Watch Me&rdquo\;
\n\nand &ldquo\;What Part Of No\,&rdquo\; to establish her place as a country star&mdash\;a
\n\nmodern woman making country music history. In 2016\, she&rsquo\;s back
\n\nwith soulful\, reflective new music on her latest album release\,
\n\nLetting Go&hellip\; Slow\, released by Shanachie Entertainment.
\n\nLoretta Lynn Morgan was born to make music. At age 13\, she
\n\nmade her first and everlasting impression on the country music
\n\nworld when she played at The Grand Ole Opry\, making her
\n\none of the youngest to have made his/her debut at the Mother
\n\nChurch of Country Music. Three short years later\, after her dad\,
\n\ncountry music star George Morgan&rsquo\;s\, passing\, Lorrie launched
\n\nher own career touring with her father&rsquo\;s band. She made history
\n\nof her own when she became a lifetime member of the Grand
\n\nOle Opry at the age of 24\, the youngest person ever to become
\n\na member of the Grand Ole Opry.
\n\nA Nashville\, Tennessee native\, Lorrie landed her first recording
\n\ncontract in 1988 and in 1990 had her first number one
\n\nsingle\, &ldquo\;Five Minutes.&rdquo\; Morgan&rsquo\;s second album\, Something in
\n\nRed\, was released in 1991 and became RIAA-Certified Platinum
\n\n®\;. Watch Me\, her third album\, was released in 1992 and
\n\ncontained the number-one single\, &ldquo\;What Part of No.&rdquo\; Watch Me
\n\nalso sold over 1 million copies\, making Morgan the first female
\n\ncountry artist to have three albums in a row to be RIAA-Certified
\n\nPlatinum®\;. In 1994 she was voted &ldquo\;Female Vocalist of the Year&rdquo\;
\n\nby country music fans at TNN&rsquo\;s Music City News Awards. She
\n\nwould earn this honor again in 1996\, 1997 and 1998. Morgan&rsquo\;s
\n\nGreatest Hits album\, which produced her third number-one
\n\nsingle\, &ldquo\;I Didn&rsquo\;t Know My Own Strength&rdquo\;\, was released in 1995.
\n\nLorrie&rsquo\;s success is defined by her love of a great song and
\n\nability to sell it. Over the past two decades\, as musical trends
\n\ncame and went\, Lorrie has remained true to herself. Today\,
\n\nLorrie has become the essence of country music femininity and
\n\na renaissance woman of the genre recognized as royalty by her
\n\nfans and her peers.
\n\nWhen she&rsquo\;s not on tour or in the recording studio\, you&rsquo\;ll find
\n\nher performing on stage at the legendary Grand Ole Opry or
\n\nat home spending time with her husband Randy\, her daughter
\n\nMorgan\, son Jesse\, her grandchildren and her dogs Weezy\,
\n\nPuddin&rsquo\; and Abby Ray in her hometown of Nashville\, Tennessee.
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