Willie Nelson’s older sister, Bobbie Lee Nelson (January 1, 1931 – March 10, 2022), was an American pianist and singer who was a member of his band, Willie Nelson and Family.
Her grandmother taught her to play keyboards on a pump organ when she was five years old, and her grandfather purchased her a piano after she performed well at gospel conventions in Hillsboro, Texas.
She began singing alongside her brother in school plays and at church.
She married Bud Fletcher, who had founded his own band, The Texans, when she was sixteen years old.
She played the piano, and her brother sang and played guitar. After she divorced Fletcher in 1955, they disbanded the band.
Bobbie Nelson siblings: Who is Willie Nelson?
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is a musician, actor, and activist from the United States.
Nelson became one of country music’s most well-known musicians because of the critical and economic success with Shotgun Willie, as well as Red Headed Stranger and Stardust.
He was a key role in outlaw country, a type of country music that emerged in the late 1960s as a backlash to the Nashville sound’s conservative limitations.
Nelson has appeared in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and campaigned for the use of biofuels and marijuana legalization.
Who are Bobbie Nelson and Willie Nelson’s parents?
Bobbie and Willie were the children of Myrle Marie and Ira Doyle Nelson. Their father, Doyle, was a mechanic.
Their mother, Marie, left them shortly after Willie’s birth. Doyle later remarried and entrusted his children to his grandparents, from who they learnt music.
