Best Music (artists) to Come Out of Your City (insurance, home)
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Mine will be a little different due to the fact that NW Arkansas is kinda lumped together
Sarah Caldwell (1924-2006) - A renowned opera conductor who was raised in Fayetteville. Considered a child prodigy in music and mathematics. She was giving violin recitals before age 10 and graduated from Fayetteville High School at the age of 14. She founded the Opera Company of Boston and brought it to national prominence, and in 1976 she became the first woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Member of the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame.
Joe Nichols (b. 1976) - Native of Rogers, Nichols secured his first record deal at age 19 with Intersound records. In 1999, he met studio guitarist Brent Rowan, who ultimately produced Nichols' 2002 album “Man With a Memory,” the first project from the Universal South imprint. Alan Jackson invited Nichols to open selected shows on his 2003 tour and that same year he won the Country Music Association Horizon award. Also in 2003 The Academy of Country Music named Nichols its Top New Male Vocalist and Country Music Television (CMT) named "Brokenheartsville" the year's Breakthrough Video. He was voted Best New Artist of 2003 by the readers of Radio & Records. Billboard Magazine tapped him as Top New Country Artist of 2002, with "The Impossible" certified as the number 10 most played song of the year. Music Row magazine bestowed upon him its prestigious Critics' Pick award and he was nominated for three Grammy Awards: Best Country Album, Best Country Male Vocal Performance and Best Country Song for "The Impossible." His fourth album, 2005's gold-certified “III,” produced his biggest hit to date in the Number One single "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off." In 2007, Nichols released the album “Real Things,” which produced the Top 20 hits "Another Side of You" and "It Ain't No Crime." Member of the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame.
I've never lived in a real city, but I was born in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. However I'm not finding any musicians, that I've heard of, from there.
While I didn't find any from Fort Smith either, Arkansas as a whole has several.
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