Patty Loveless is an American country music singer. She began performing in her teenage years before signing her first recording contract with MCA Records’ Nashville division in 1985.
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Patricia Lee Ramey was born on January 4, 1957 (age 66), She is the oldest of seven children to Naomie and John Ramey. She was raised in nearby Elkhorn City, Kentucky, where her father worked in a coal mine. He contracted black lung disease as a result of the job, forcing the family to move to Louisville, Kentucky, to facilitate his medical treatments. John Ramey died of the disease in 1979.
Loveless spent much of the late 1970s playing rock cover songs at various venues in the Midwestern United States. By the mid-1980s, she moved back to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a career as a country artist. At the time, Loveless said she was inspired by the rise of the neotraditional country in the mid-1980s through such acts as Dwight Yoakam, The Judds, and Randy Travis.
