Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss' silky voice Her warm and friendly personality, as well as her skills on the fiddle helped make bluegrass music accessible to a whole new generation. Her music was true to her roots and was also appealing to country and pop fans. Her debut album, Too Late to Cry released in 1987, became hugely successful. However, it wasn't her platinum-selling collection Now That I've found You, which made her an instant celebrity. Between her 1987 release Too Late to cry and now That I've Find You her growth from a child prodigy to an incredibly talented, versatile as well as diverse artist, and during this time, she created some of the most fresh bluegrass music of the late 1980s and early '90s. Her appearance in the film O Brother What Art Thou was followed by the soundtrack. and an upcoming project in collaboration with Robert Plant called Raising Sand (the couple reunited in Raise the Roof in 2021), Krauss won the popularity of the popular pop fans without having to compromise her musical ideals through the course of her career. Krauss started playing violin at age five beginning classical music lessons. She soon tired of the regimen of classical playing and began performing bluegrass and country licks. When she was eight, she started entering talent competitions around her home town of Champaign, IL. Her first band formed just two years later. The young woman was only 12 when her 1983 win won the title of Illinois State Fiddle Champion. Later, the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America crowned her the Midwest's Top Fiddler.