Bobbie Gentry
Country, Musical Artist
1944 –
Who is Bobbie Gentry?
Roberta Lee Streeter, professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material. Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.
Gentry rose to international fame with her intriguing Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe" in 1967. The track spent four weeks as the No. 1 pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967 and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. Gentry charted eleven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and four singles on the United Kingdom Top 40. Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. After her first albums, she had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. She lost interest in performing in the late 1970s, and since has lived privately in Los Angeles.
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- Born
- Jul 27, 1944
Mississippi - Also known as
- Bobby Gentry
- Roberta Lee Streeter
- Gentry, Bobbie
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jim Stafford
(1978/10/15 - 1979) - Bill Harrah
(1969/12/18 - 1970/04/16)
- Jim Stafford
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Palm Valley School
- Lived in
- Los Angeles County
- Palm Springs
- Greenwood
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on July 23, 2013
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