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Country music star Kenny Rogers, known for classics like "The ambler" and "Islands in the Stream", died Friday night. He was 81. He died of natural causes at home in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
During his six-decade career, the popular singer sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, won three Grammy Awards and was given a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame. (76)He also published several photography books, donated time and money to noble causes, appeared in a number of made-for-television movies and launched a restaurant chain.
Kenneth Donald Rogers was born in Houston on Aug. 21, 1938. The fourth of Edward and Lucille's eight children, Rogers grew up in a government housing project. He was the first person in his family to receive a high school diploma.
"As early as elementary school, I began to see music and singing as a relief from all the awkwardness and embarrassment of growing up poor, shy and often an outsider," Rogers wrote in his 2012 book, Luck or Something Like it: A Memoir. He entered his first talent contest when he was 10. His version of "Lovesick Blues" won him the grand prize: a half-gallon of ice cream and a meeting with a country music star.
In high school, he formed a vocal group called the Scholars. They recorded a few forgettable songs, then went their separate ways. As a solo artist, Kenneth Rogers recorded a song called "That Crazy Feeling", which was released to the public.
In 1959, jazz pianist Bobby Doyle heard Rogers play at a club and asked him to join the Bobby Doyle Three as a bassist(贝斯手) and harmony singer. Rogers wasn't a bass player but signed on anyway. The group disbanded(解散) in the mid-1960s. By then, Rogers had “learned how to be a musician from Bobby Doyle,“ as he wrote half a century later.
