Alison Krauss was born in Decatur, Illinois in July 23, 1971, but was raised in Champaign, Illinois. She
is an American bluegrass-country singer and fiddle player. She entered the music industry at a young age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time on her brother's album at fourteen. Alison Krauss signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album at sixteen in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss & Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.
is an American bluegrass-country singer and fiddle player. She entered the music industry at a young age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time on her brother's album at fourteen. Alison Krauss signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album at sixteen in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss & Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.She began studying classical violin at five years old but soon switched to bluegrass. Krauss said she first became involved with music because her "mother tried to find interesting things for [me] to do" and "wanted to get [me] involved in music, in addition to art and sports." At age eight she started entering local talent contests, and at ten she had her own band. At twelve she won the Illinois State Fiddle Championship; at thirteen she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship, and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest. Krauss first met Dan Tyminski around 1984 at a festival held by the Society. Every current member of her band, Union Station, first met her at these festivals.
Krauss made her recording debut in 1985 on her brother Viktor's independent album, Different Strokes. She performed with John Pennell, bassist and songwriter, from the age of twelve in a band called "Silver Rail". Pennell later formed Union Station, and Krauss joined at his invitation, replacing their previous fiddler Andrea Zonn. Pennell remains one of her favorite songwritersand wrote some of her early work including the popular "Every Time You Say Goodbye." Later that year she signed to Rounder Records, and in 1987, at sixteen, her debut album Too Late to Cry was released with Union Station as her backup band.Alison Krauss : Genre(s) Bluegrass, Newgrass, country, gospel Alison Krauss : Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, record producer.
Alison Krauss discography/album :
1987 – Too Late to Cry
1989 – Two Highways
1990 – I've Got That Old Feeling
1992 – Every Time You Say Goodbye
1994 – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
1997 – So Long So Wrong
1999 – Forget About It 2001 – New Favorite
2004 – Lonely Runs Both Ways
2007 - A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection 2007 – Raising Sand (with Robert Plant)
