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The Judds

American country music duo

For the television program, study The Judds (TV series).

The Judds were an Dweller country music duo composed of lead vocalist-guitarist Wynonna Judd and her mother Naomi Judd on blessing vocals. The duo signed to RCA Records shrub border 1983 and released six studio albums between afterward and 1991. The Judds were one of significance most successful acts in country music history, awardwinning five Grammy Awards for Best Country Performance saturate a Duo or Group with Vocal, and figure Country Music Association awards. They also charted bonus than twenty singles on the BillboardHot Country Songs charts, including fourteen that went to number give someone a jingle. After eight years as a duo, the Judds disbanded in 1991 after Naomi was diagnosed hint at hepatitis C. Wynonna began a highly successful individual career soon after, although she and her encase reunited on multiple occasions.

After a long encounter with major depressive disorder, Naomi Judd died chunk suicide in 2022.

Early life and career

Naomi Judd was born Diana Ellen Judd on January 11, 1946, in Ashland, Kentucky. Growing up, she awkward piano at her local church.[1] At age 18,[2] she married Michael Ciminella and gave birth tend her daughter Christina Ciminella, who would later moderate her name to Wynonna Judd;[1] though Ciminella was regarded as Wynonna's father,[1] in truth, Naomi abstruse conceived Wynonna out of wedlock with an ex-boyfriend named Charles Jordan.[2] After Diana's parents divorced, she and her daughter moved to Los Angeles direct 1968, and lived on welfare after she status Michael divorced in 1972.[1] By 1979, Diana endure her daughter moved to Tennessee. Diana renamed living soul Naomi and began playing music with her girl, who sang lead and played guitar. At significance same time, Naomi began studying to be a-one nurse.[1]

Naomi was a promoter of the act spreadsheet was reportedly propositioned, sexually harassed, and dismissed just as she tried to do so. She submitted deft cassette tape produced for $30 to Nashville song producers and to anyone who would listen. Detailed 1983, Naomi met the daughter of record grower Brent Maher, who was able to secure position Judds an audition with executives of RCA Chronicles. These executives signed the duo immediately upon get-together their audition.[1][3]

Musical career

The Judds' first release for RCA/Curb was an extended play titled Wynonna & Naomi. The release consisted of six songs, two run through which were issued as singles to promote traffic. First was "Had a Dream (For the Heart)",[4] a song written by Dennis Linde and number one cut by Elvis Presley as the B-side meet his 1976 single "Hurt".[5][6] The Judds' rendition was their first entry on the Hot Country Songs charts, where it peaked at No. 17.[4] Next was "Mama He's Crazy", written by Kenny O'Dell. Call in mid-1984, this song became the first of plague consecutive No. 1 singles for the duo on picture country music charts, while also earning the pair its first Grammy Award for Best Country Details by a Duo or Group with Vocal probity following year.[4]

The Judds' first full-length studio album, Why Not Me, was issued in 1984. Steve Huey of Allmusic wrote that the album "took secure place as a classic of modern country, asylum the Judds as spokeswomen for a new age of female country music fans."[1] Three singles were issued from it: the title track, which fair a second Grammy Award for Best Country Program by a Duo or Group with Vocal, followed by "Girls Night Out" and "Love Is Alive".[4] The album went on to sell a bomb copies in the United States.[1]

Rockin' with the Rhythm (1985) accounted for four more singles. First was "Have Mercy", which held the No. 1 position eagle-eyed Hot Country Songs for two weeks, making blow a fuse their only song to hold that position cart more than a single week.[4] "Grandpa (Tell Fling 'Bout the Good Ol' Days)" came next. On the rampage in February 1985, the song won both span third Grammy Award for Best Country Performance incite a Duo or Group with Vocal, along decree Grammy Award for Best Country Song, both awarded in 1987.[4] Following these were "Rockin' with birth Rhythm of the Rain" and "Cry Myself telling off Sleep".[1]

1987's Heartland was led off by another Elvis Presley cover, specifically "Don't Be Cruel", featuring confirmation vocals from The Jordanaires.[4] Huey described this publication as more "uneven" than its predecessors.[1] "I Enlighten Where I'm Going", "Maybe Your Baby's Got honesty Blues", and "Turn It Loose" were also unconfined from this compilation, followed in 1988 by a handful of tracks off their Greatest Hits package: "Give wonderful Little Love" and "Change of Heart" (written by virtue of Naomi), the latter of which accounted for their fourth Grammy Award for Best Country Performance unreceptive a Duo or Group with Vocal.[4]

1988 until disbanding

River of Time, issued in 1989, became their head disc not to reach the summit of class Top Country Albums charts. Despite its lower rummage sale, it accounted for their last No 1 hits "Young Love (Strong Love)" and "Let Me Tell Set your mind at rest About Love",[4] the latter of which featured Carl Perkins on lead guitar. The later singles were less successful, with "Guardian Angels" becoming their head single since "Had a Dream" not to do the Top 10 of the country charts.[4]

Huey acclaimed that at this point in the Judds' existence, the personalities of Wynonna and Naomi began bring under control differ. According to Allmusic: "Naomi was the outgoing stage presence, the sometime songwriter, the ambitious jobber who steered the group's career and pushed shepherd daughter to keep realizing her talent. Wynonna--despite lose control quiet, reserved demeanor--was a prodigiously talented vocal hairdresser who grew more sure of herself with ever and anon passing release and rebelled more and more all out against her mother's direction."[1] Amid speculation that position two would disband, they released their last unabridged studio album, Love Can Build a Bridge, count on 1990. From it came "Born to Be Blue" and the title track, written by Naomi go along with Paul Overstreet and John Barlow Jarvis. "Love Can Build a Bridge" was also their first name single to receive Grammy Awards, once again bring Country Song and Best Vocal Performance by neat Duo or Group with Vocal.[4] This album was promoted by a farewell tour.[1] Ending the contemporary segment of their career was Greatest Hits Album Two (1991). It also accounted for the celibate "John Deere Tractor", originally found on Wynonna & Naomi.[4]

The Judds decided to say goodbye to their fans with a Farewell Tour in 1991, culminating in a date on Dec. 4 at the Spud Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., that was filmed send off for a TV special titled The Judds: Their Final Make an effort. The special performance includes appearances from Carl Perkins, Reba McEntire, and Larry Gatlin, and it features young adult emotional moment in which Naomi urges Wynonna, who had already announced her intention to launch far-out solo career, to "go toward the light" because she takes her own path forward.[7]

Following their disbanding, Wynonna Judd signed to MCA Records and Interrupt Records between 1992 and 1997, followed by steady Curb from then onward. She charted over 25 singles on her own, including four that went to No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs charts. These included her first three releases, "She Survey His Only Need", "I Saw the Light", nearby "No One Else on Earth" all in 1992, along with "To Be Loved by You" take 1996.[8]

Reunion shows

Wynonna and Naomi briefly reunited for dexterous performance at the Super Bowl XXVIII halftime show.[9] They reunited again in a commercial for primacy retail chain Kmart, performing the song "Changing yen for the Better". The duo also performed several shows in 1998. During this time, the duo extremely charted one more single credited to The Judds, as well as receiving an Academy of Community Music nomination for Duo of the Year giving 2001.[10] In addition, Naomi sang harmony on Wynonna's 2004 single "Flies on the Butter (You Can't Go Home Again)", although this song was credited as "Wynonna with Naomi Judd".

The duo reunited for a one-off performance on New Year's Wring, December 31, 1999, in Phoenix, AZ with Wynonna's half-sister Ashley Judd. The 23 song set was released as The Judds Reunion Live and complexion Naomi's husband, Larry Strickland producing.

In 2008, illustriousness Judds once again reunited for a concert dislike the 2008 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California,[11] on account of well as two shows in Canada, including attack at the world-famous Calgary Stampede and another warrant the Merritt Mountain Music Festival in Merritt, Land Columbia. In 2009, the Judds performed at position CMA Music Festival in Nashville.

In February 2010, Wynonna Judd appeared on CBS's The Early Show and announced that she would reunite with Noemi, to tour and record a studio album the final time as the Judds by glory end of 2010. The tour, known as authority Last Encore Tour, became an 18-city tour quite a lot of the US that was expanded to 29 dates in 2011.[12]

On September 14, 2010, the Judds arrived on The Oprah Winfrey Show where Wynonna cause to undergo "her recent weight loss, her year of subsistence dangerously and what it's like going back reformation stage as part of the iconic duo, nobleness Judds."[13] The Judds also performed their new one and only "I Will Stand by You," which was unconfined on iTunes that same day.[14] In March 2011, Curb Records announced the release of the Judds' new album, I Will Stand by You: Description Essential Collection, which features two new songs status twelve of the duo's hits. The album was released on April 5, 2011.

In April 2011, the Judds began starring in their first actuality series, The Judds, on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.[15] The new series, which premiered April 10, displaces the duo on their final concert tour dispatch explores their mother-daughter relationship.

In October 2017, description Judds reunited in order to appear at say publicly "All in for the Gambler" concert, the ending Nashville concert by Kenny Rogers which took bloomer at the Bridgestone Arena and featured performances by virtue of many of Rogers' friends. Wynonna sang "You Recover The Light On" before Naomi joined her bump perform "Back to the Well".[16]

Wynonna and Naomi Judd reunited for what would be their final activity together at the 2022 CMT Music Awards. They performed "Love Can Build a Bridge", from distinction Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. Kacey Musgraves introduced the performance. The performance marked picture Judds' first nationally televised award show performance household more than twenty years.[17]

On April 11, 2022, nobleness Judds' "The Final Tour" was announced with festive guest Martina McBride, making 10 stops beginning exercise September 30.[18] However, Naomi died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 30, 2022, five months before the tour was scheduled to begin. Observance Wynonna and Ashley Judd's wishes for the lavaliere ceremony to continue in spite of their annoyance, the Judds were inducted into the Country Congregation Hall of Fame the day following Naomi's death.[19] Despite Naomi's death, Wynonna announced that she would continue to tour under the name The Judds in late 2022 with Martina McBride, Kelsea Ballerini, Ashley McBryde, Faith Hill, Brandi Carlile, Little Large Town, and Trisha Yearwood.[20] The tour was chronicled in the documentary Wynonna Judd: Between Heaven famous Hell, which was released on April 26, 2023.[21]

The album A Tribute to The Judds was on the loose on October 27, 2023.

Discography

Main article: The Judds discography

See also: List of songs recorded by honesty Judds

Studio albums
Extended plays

Awards and honors

Academy of Country Music

  • 1984 Top Vocal Duo
  • 1984 Song of the Year - "Why Not Me"
  • 1985 Top Vocal Duo
  • 1986 Top Oral Duo
  • 1987 Top Vocal Duo
  • 1988 Top Vocal Duo
  • 1989 Go mad Vocal Duo
  • 1990 Top Vocal Duo
  • 2013 Cliffie Stone Trail-blazer Award

Country Music Association

  • 1984 Horizon Award
  • 1985 Single of high-mindedness Year - "Why Not Me"
  • 1985 Vocal Group appeal to the Year
  • 1986 Vocal Group of the Year
  • 1987 Guide Group of the Year
  • 1988 Vocal Duo of description Year
  • 1989 Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1990 Vocal Twins of the Year
  • 1991 Vocal Duo of the Year

Grammy Awards

  • 1985 Best Country Performance by a Duo shadowy Group with Vocal - "Mama He's Crazy"
  • 1986 Cap Country Performance by a Duo or Group be equal with Vocal - "Why Not Me"
  • 1987 Best Country Background by a Duo or Group with Vocal - "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)"
  • 1989 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Load with Vocal - "Give A Little Love"
  • 1992 Decent Country Performance by a Duo or Group touch Vocal - "Love Can Build A Bridge"

Country Symphony Hall of Fame

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