Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss' silky voice along with her warmth and her mastery of the fiddle helped help bring bluegrass music into an entire new audience. Her music kept true its roots, while attracting country and pop fans. Blending bluegrass with folk and the country sound, Krauss was instantly acclaimed right from the beginning of her career, but it wasn't until her platinum-selling 1995 compilation album, Now that I've found You that she was a mainstream star. Between her 1987 debut Too Late to Cry and Now That I've Found You She grew from a young prodigy an incredibly talented, versatile and varied musician. She also, in the process, made some of the most original bluegrass from the late 80s and the early 1990s. Her role in the movie O Brother What Art Thou was followed by the soundtrack. Krauss was recognized by the mainstream media by collaborating on a project called Raising Sand, which she co-produced along with Robert Plant (the two reunited for the recording of Raise the Roof 2021). Krauss was a violinist in the classical school as a child, when she was only five years old. After a few years of playing classical music, she took the first steps to perform bluegrass and country licks. The singer began performing in talent competitions around Champaign and Illinois at the age eight. After two years of this, she founded her own band. The young woman was only 12 when her 1983 win made the Illinois State Champion and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the Midwest's Best Fiddler.