Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss (born on July 23, 1971 in Decatur, Illinois), is a bluegrass singer and virtuoso fiddle player who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. Almost certainly the most successful bluegrass musician ever, Krauss has had several platinum-selling albums, has received seventeen Grammy Awards (more than any other woman in the history of the Grammys), and been a featured performer in the Oscars. In 1995 she was awarded Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association.

Grammy Awards

• 2003 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: James Taylor & Alison Krauss for How's The World Treating You
• 2003 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Live
• 2003 Best Country Instrumental Performance: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Cluck Old Hen
• 2002 Best Contemporary Folk Album: Nickel Creek, artist, Alison Krauss, producer.
• 2001 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Alison Krauss & Union Station for The Lucky One
• 2001 Best Bluegrass Album: Gary Paczosa (engineer) & Alison Krauss & Union Station (producers and artists) for New Favorite
• 2001 Album of the Year: for O Brother, Where Art Thou? - soundtrack
• 1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Alison Krauss, Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam, Earl Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Joe Diffie, Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs & Travis Tritt,artists, for Same Old Train
• 1997 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station for So Long So Wrong
• 1997 Best Country Instrumental Performance: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Little Liza Jane
• 1997 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Looking in the Eyes of Love
• 1996 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Alison Krauss & Union Station & Vince Gill for High Lonesome Sound
• 1996 Best Female Country Vocal Performance: for Baby, Now That I've Found You
• 1995 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Alison Krauss & Shenandoah for Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart
• 1994 Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Alison Krauss & Cox Family (Evelyn Cox, Lynn Cox, Sidney Cox, Suzanne Cox, Willard Cox) for I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
• 1992 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Every Time You Say Goodbye
• 1990 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss for I've Got That Old Feeling

From the Grammy awards web site

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