K. T. Oslin

Infobox musical artist


Name = K. T. Oslin
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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Kay Toinette Oslin
Born = Birth date and age|1941|5|15|df=y
Origin = Crossett, Arkansas, USA
Genre = Country
Occupation = Singer
Years_active = 1981 - present
Label = RCA
Associated_acts = Raul Malo
URL = http://www.ktoslin.net/

K. T. Oslin (born Kay Toinette Oslin May 15, 1941, Crossett, Arkansas) is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter. Between 1981 and the present, she has released seven studio albums, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the "Billboard" country charts. Her chart singles include the Number One hits "Do Ya" (1987), "I'll Always Come Back", "Hold Me" (both 1988), and "Come Next Monday" (1990), as well as three additional Top Ten hits.

Biography

Kay T. Oslin was born in Crossett, Arkansas, but soon after her birth her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee and then to Houston, Texas. Oslin considers Houston her hometown. She attended Methodist-affiliated Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Texas.

Oslin initially performed as a folk singer with Guy Clark and then moved to New York where she performed as a chorine in Off Broadway and Broadway shows.Fact|date=June 2007 She soon began doing advertising jingles, which led to appearances in a number of television commercials.

She began writing songs, some of which have been recorded by country artists Dottie West, Gail Davies, Sissy Spacek, and The Judds.Fact|date=June 2007

In 1987, after a brief run with Elektra Records, she broke through with RCA Records and went to win the Country Music Association Song of the Year award for "80s Ladies". Oslin also earned the Female Vocalist of the Year honors and a Grammy Award for the song. Additional hits included "Come Next Monday", "Hey Bobby", "Hold Me", "Mary and Willie", "Do Ya", "This Woman", "Didn't Expect it to Go Down This Way", and "I'll Always Come Back." The song, Younger Men appeared on the White Palaces movie soundtrack. The film starred Susan Sarandon.

By the early '90s, Oslin branched out into acting, taking roles on "Paradise", and "Evening Shade" with Burt Reynolds. On the big screen she co-starred in "The Thing Called Love" with Sandra Bullock and River Phoenix.

In 1995, Oslin had coronary artery bypass surgery.

Her 2001 album, Live Close By, Visit Often was produced by Raul Malo who also wrote several of the songs.

She ranked #37 in "CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music" in 2002. [http://www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/greatest_series/76608/episode.jhtml]

Discography

Albums

ingles

References

*Millard, Bob. (1998). "K.T. Oslin". In "The Encyclopedia of Country Music". Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 396-7.

External links

* [http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/oslin_k_t_/artist.jhtml CMT.com profile]

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