Gretchen Wilson
![]() Gretchen Wilson (born 26 June, 1973) is a US country music singer. Her debut album Here for the Party topped the US country charts in 2004 and reached #2 on the Billboard album charts. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Gretchen Wilson was born in Granite City, Illinois. She was raised in a trailer park in Pocahontas, Illinois, 36 miles outside St. Louis on Interstate 70, to a single mother, who was 16 when Wilson was born. Wilson grew up in poverty and moved to a succession of trailer parks as her mother struggled to pay the rent through working as a waitress at a diner. She left school after the eighth grade and was working as a cook and bartender at 14. By 15, she was living on her own. She was singing in two bar bands by the age of 20.
26 June: REDIRECT June 26... 1973: 1973 was a common year starting on Monday.... Country music: Country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues.... Gretchen Wilson related Images and Photos (experimental)
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