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About Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Judd is a multi award-winning American country music singer. She is one of the most widely recognized and awarded female country singers. In all, she has had 19 No. 1 singles, including those of The Judds, making her one of the best-selling country artists of all time. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the single name Wynonna. She first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds. They released seven albums on Curb Records in addition to 26 singles, of which fourteen were No. 1 hits.
The Judds disbanded in 1991 and Judd began a solo career, also on Curb. In her solo career, she has released eight studio albums, a live album, a holiday album, and two compilation albums, in addition to more than 20 singles. Her first three singles were "She Is His Only Need," "I Saw the Light," and "No One Else on Earth." All three reached number one on the U.S. country singles charts consecutively, and "To Be Loved by You" also hit number one in 1996, her fourth number one and top ten hit. Three of her albums are certified platinum or higher by the RIAA. Her most recent recordings are Wynonna & the Big Noise, released on February 12, 2016, along with the single "Cool Ya'" that same month. Recollections was released in 2020 and Are You Ready For The Country was released in 2021 in aid of Public TV. Judd is most recognized for her musical work, although she has also pursued other interests starting in the 2000s, including writing, acting, and philanthropy.
In 2022, Judd was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as a member of The Judds.
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Judd was born Christina Claire Ciminella in Ashland, Kentucky, on May 30, 1964. She was given the last name Ciminella after Michael Ciminella, the man her mother quickly married after being abandoned by her boyfriend and Judd's biological father, Charles Jordan, who died in 2000. Her younger half-sister is actor and activist Ashley Judd.
She married Arch Kelley III in 1993, and their son Elijah Judd was born on December 23, 1994, in Nashville. The couple married on January 21, 1996, when she was four months pregnant with their second child, Grace Pauline Kelley.
Her second husband was her former bodyguard D. R. Roach, whom she married on November 22, 2003, in Tennessee. She filed for divorce on March 27, 2007.
On December 24, 2011, Judd became engaged to her boyfriend, musician Cactus Moser, best known as the drummer for Highway 101. They married on June 10, 2012, at her home in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee.
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- Ancestry.com. Kentucky, U.S., Birth Index, 1911-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006.
- Name: Christina C Ciminella; Date of Birth: 30 May 1964; Birth Place: Boyd, Kentucky, USA; Mother's Name: Diana Judd; Volume Number: 052; Certificate Number: 25577; Volume Year: 1964.
- Ancestry.com. Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780-2002 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
- Name: Wynonna Ellen Judd; Gender: Female; Age: 31; Birth Date: abt 1965; Marriage Date: 21 Jan 1996; Marriage Place: Williamson, Tennessee, USA; Spouse: Arch Brown Kelley.
- Judd, Naomi. Love Can Build a Bridge, p. 1 of prologue. New York: Fawcett, 1993.
- McCall, Michael, John Rumble and Paul Kingsbury. The Encyclopedia of Country Music, p. 272. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Rome, Emily. "Wynonna Judd marries Cactus Moser." Entertainment Weekly, published 21 June 2012. < link > Accessed 8 May 2022.
- "Wynonna Judd." Wikipedia, revision of 6 May 2022. < link > Accessed 8 May 2022.
- "Wynonna Judd divorces husband." San Angelo Standard-Times via Newspapers.com, published 25 June 1999, p. 3B. < link > Accessed 8 May 2022.
- "Wynonna Judd files for divorce after husband's arrest on sex charges." Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, published 27 March 2007. < link > Accessed 8 May 2022.
- "Wynonna Judd Kelley." U.S. Public Records Index via MyHeritage. < link > Accessed 8 May 2022.
- Name: Wynonna Judd Kelley; Birth: May 30 1964.
- "Wynonna Judd weds longtime bodyguard." East Valley Tribune, published 26 November 2003. < link > Accessed 8 May 2022.
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King's Daughters Hospital, Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky, United States
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