Lynn Anderson was born Sept. 26, 1947, in Grand Forks, N.D., but raised in California, the daughter of country songwriters Casey and Liz Anderson, Lynn started performing at the age of 6.

Lynn Anderson was born Sept. 26, 1947, in Grand Forks, N.D., but raised in California.

Lynn has sung for four U.S. Presidents and the Queen of England, most recently for former President Jimmy Carter at his 75th birthday celebration. During the 1970s, when Hollywood needed a country act for variety shows, benefits, national telethons, talk shows and even television dramas, Lynn Anderson was usually the choice. She was the first female country artist to do the Tonight Show circuit, as well as the first to headline and sellout Madison Square Garden in 1974. That same year, she became the first country artist to win the American Music Award for "Favorite Female Vocalist." In addition to several appearances on the Tonight Show, Lynn has been featured on The Ed Sullivan Show, Kraft Music Hall of Fame, The Dean Martin Show, The Tom Jones Show, The Midnight Special, The Johnny Cash Show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Carol Burnett Show, The Sonny and Cher Show, Hollywood Squares, The Dinah Shore Show, Solid Gold, Good Morning America, The People's Choice Awards and three Bob Hope Specials, as well as acting on an episode of Starsky and Hutch at the height of its popularity and in "Country Gold," an NBC Movie of the Week. Lynn also starred in her own CBS television special with guest star Tina Turner. Throughout her career she has served as an ambassador for country music, broadening its appeal and taking it to new levels, proving that a country artist could have major success on national television.    She will be inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009 as an honorary member..

Audy Baldridge was inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in
2008.  He's enjoyed a seventeen year career (so far!) with The Red River Band as a founding member, and has played Country music his whole life.

Born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Audy entered the United States Navy at the age of twenty, and then went on to graduate from Oklahoma State University of Technical Training in 1960.  A 34-year resident of Colorado, Audy and his wife Joan enjoy a family including four children and many grandchildren.  Audy says his love of Country music is rooted in the broad range of places he has performed and all of the wonderful people he has met.  He continues playing today and making even more friends along the memorable journey of a Colorado Country Hall of Fame life.

Born Newrise Battle on August 3, 1937 in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was later to take on the stage name of Beau David. He began singing before he enlisted in the United States Air Forces in 1955. With his rendition of the song “16 Tons” he won the Air Force Tops in Blues Award while stationed in Germany. A natural at music, he then taught himself to play guitar and enjoyed a wide repertoire which included country, folk, blues, and flamenco. His favorite was country music.

While serving in maintenance and scheduling squadrons for the Air Force, Newrise continued his military education by completing the Officer Candidate Course and also began working on his undergraduate degree in the mid 1960's. Ever the musician, he also began performing in the local communities near the bases where he was stationed in HI and WA. He completed his bachelor's degree in Psychology at St. Martin College in Olympia WA.

While assigned to Ellsworth AFB, SD, he performed with “The Intrigues” his first band for 4 years until he retired from the Air Force after 20 years of service in 1975. Moving to Colorado in the same year, Beau performed solo 6 nights a week while attending graduate school at the University of Northern Colorado, where he earned a master's degree in Psychology. His first band in Colorado, “The Day Drinkers”, performed in the Denver area for several years, where he was to become known to many as “Beau David”.

Beau married his second wife, Leora, in June 1975.

Building on his early days in Colorado, he continued his musical career and became a founding member of the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame, an organization that began with 6 members and grew to over 300. He held the posts of first Vice-President for 2 years, and acting President for 1 year. He also organized the first Hall of Fame Festival at that the Arvada Eagles. He was honored to receive the Parmelle Award for Country Music Entertainer of the Year Award from the Country Music Hall of Fame. Acting was also a talent for Beau, including portraying the role of God in Green Pastures among other roles. This great Colorado Country Music legend passed away in 2010.

Beau was inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

Originally from Montana, Leo Everett is known as the Montana yodeler.  He came to Denver in 1981, and played Country Land for 10 years.

Inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.

Doug Kershaw is considered by most to be the king of the fiddle players. Since his early days on a Louisiana bayou, he has taken a fiddle beyond what most people think possible. With the energy of a nuclear bomb, he plays so incredibly fast that clouds of rosin soar from his horse hair bow, giving the impression that it is smoking!

Often, he will wear out two or three bows per song – playing, dancing and singing simultaneously. Mastering more than 20 instruments, many of Doug's peers, including the great Jimmy C. Newman, consider him as the best musician, singer, songwriter and performer to ever come out of southwest Louisiana.

Doug Kershaw, a key player in the promotion and revival of the formerly disappearing Cajun Culture, was born in Tiel Ridge, Cameron Parish, Louisiana, an island just off the Gulf of Mexico on January 24, 1936 to Rita and Jack Kershaw, Doug is the second of four sons, Ed, Doug, Nelson (Pee Wee) and Russell (Rusty).

In the 1960's, Doug made his first network television appearance on the premier, "Johnny Cash Show." This performance turned millions of people on to his talents, among them, Warner Brothers Records, with whom he signed a long-term recording contract. Kershaw's many recordings have been steady sellers, not only with country audiences, but spanning all categories.

Songs such as "Diggy Diggy Lo," "Cajun Joe" and "Rita Put Your Black Shoes On," are familiar tunes to Doug Kershaw fans, but none of his works reached the fame of his 1961 autobiographical recording of one of the many songs he wrote, "Louisiana Man," which immortalized his family and sold millions of copies over the years. In 1969, "Louisiana Man" was the first song broadcast back to earth from the moon by the Apollo 12 Mission.

Doug Kershaw was inducted as an honorary member of the CCMHOF in 2007.

Born April 14 , 1935 in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, Loretta Lynn has, for over four decades, fashioned a body of work as artistically and commercially successful—and as culturally significant—as any female performer you’d care to name. Her music has confronted many of the major social issues of her time, and her life story is a rags-to-riches tale familiar to pop, rock and country fans alike. The Coal Miner’s Daughter—the tag refers to a hit single, an album, a best-selling autobiography, an Oscar-winning film, and to Lynn herself—has journeyed from the poverty of the Kentucky hills to Nashville superstardom to her current status as an honest-to-goodness American icon who was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.

It didn’t hurt that sprinkled among her many solo hits was a series of amazing collaborations between Loretta and her dear friend, singer Conway Twitty. Indeed, Loretta also won her first Vocal Duo of the Year award in 1972, with Conway, a title the team held onto through 1976. (And this in the years when the duet competition annually included Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton and George Jones & Tammy Wynette!) The pair’s close harmony style and dramatic song selections—especially, “After the Fire Is Gone,” “Lead Me On,” “As Soon As I Hang up the Phone,” and “Feelin’s”—explored adult romantic relationships as wrenchingly as any records ever made.

Loretta Lynn was inducted as an honorary member in the CCMHOF by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter during her June 10, 2009 Denver show.

Ronnie Miller's biography is being updated now.  He was inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.

Born in Oak Cliff, Texas, on March 14, 1945, and grew up in Dallas. His special love for cowboy stories and songs lead him to become a student of the arts. Mark Twain and William Faulkner were a couple of his early mentors.-- and was writing poetry before he was in his teens.His first album, Geronimo's Cadillac (1972), yielded a modest hit in the title song, which was later covered by Hoyt Axton and taken up as an anthem by Native American civil rights activists. A second album, Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir, was well received critically and also a modest hit in the Austin area.

"Wildfire," got to No. 3 on the pop charts in 1975 and became his first gold record. "Carolina in the Pines," another song from the same album, also made the Top 30. In 1982, Murphey signed a recording contract with Liberty Records, which yielded two original albums, Michael Martin Murphey and The Heart Never Lies, as well as a best-of collection with superb re-recordings of his A&M and Epic hits as well as his original Liberty hits "Still Taking Chances," "Love Affairs," "Don't Count the Rainy Days," "Will It Be Love," and "Radio Land," the latter a sort of country-flavored equivalent to "American Pie." The American Country Music Association named him 1983's best new male vocalist of the year. His rerecording of "Carolina in the Pines" rose to the country Top 10 in 1985, outperforming the original Epic version.

Though he now focuses on cowboy music, he also organizes a series of annual celebrations of the American West called West Fest. He issued Storm Over the Rangelands, a collection of songs about contemporary ranching life, in 2005. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide. He was inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002.

Born on March 18, 1938, in Sledge, Miss. He grew up as one of 11 children to poor sharecroppers. He unofficially started his music career as a baseball player in the Negro American League with the Memphis Red Sox, singing and playing guitar on the team bus between ballparks. Self-taught on a guitar bought at age 14 from Sears Roebuck, Pride would also join various bands on stage as the team crossed the country.

Released his 1st single in 1966, Pride's first single, "The Snakes Crawl at Night," One of his first big public appearances was at a show in Detroit which Charley won the audience over by being the 1st major black recording star in country music.

Pride has topped the Billboard country singles chart 29 times, with hits like "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" and "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone." He was named the CMA's entertainer of the year and male vocalist in 1971, and in 1972, he became the first artist to win back-to-back male vocalist trophies. His RCA singles routinely reached the Top 10 through 1984.

In 1993, Pride was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, 26 years after he first played as a guest. He was awarded the prestigious Academy of Country Music's Pioneer Award in 1994 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.  Inducted in the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.

Colorado Entertainer of the Year 2001, 2003
Inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame, 1998
3 Time Golden Music Award Winner 2001 Nashville
Male Vocalist of the Year
Group of the Year
Album of the Year

Red Steagall is the past Poet Laureate of Texas, the first "cowboy" poet to hold that honor in decades. In 1991, he was named the Official Cowboy Poet of Texas by the Texas state legislature.
He has had over 200 of his songs recorded, recorded 26 consecutive records on the national charts and released over 20 albums.

He hosts the annual Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering in the Stockyards National Historic District of Fort Worth, Texas each fall. His one-hour syndicated radio show, Cowboy Corner, is heard on 170 stations in 43 states and Red Steagall has been inducted into the Texas Trail of Fame, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 2003.

Kenny Vaughn's biography is being updated now.  He was inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002.