American singer, songwriter, and musician Emmylou Harris was born on April 2, 1947. Over the course of her career, she has published hundreds of albums and songs. She has won 14 Grammy Awards, the Polar Music Prize, and countless other accolades.
She was also inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1992. The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was given to her in 2018.
Stumble into Grace, Harris’s follow-up to Red Dirt Girl was released in 2003. It, too, was mostly self-penned. Harris co-led the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue with Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Buddy Miller, and Patty Griffin in 2004. They alternated between solo and group performances, as well as instrument swapping.
On September 9, 2005, Harris took part in “Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast,” a series of performances broadcast live by most American television stations to benefit Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, victims.
She sang harmony on Patty Griffin’s “Mary” alongside Beth Nielsen Chapman and the Dixie Chicks. She also contributed her voice to the soundtrack of the critically acclaimed 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, on the song “A Love That Will Never Grow Old,” which was controversially removed from Oscar consideration due to the song’s brief appearance in the film.
Who is Emmylou Harris’s husband Brian Ahern?
Emmylou Harris, with whom he was married from 1977 until 1984, and Anne Murray both owe much of their success to him. For musicians like Johnny Cash, George Jones, Bette Midler, Rodney Crowell, Roy Orbison, and Willie Nelson, Ahern produced more than 40 gold and platinum records between the mid-1970s and the late 2000s.
