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K.T. Oslin
12+ albums
countryfemale vocalistscountry women80s90s
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K. T. Oslin (born Kay Toinette Oslin on 15 May 1942; died 21 December 2020) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Best known for her 1987 top ten hit country single "80's Ladies", she also had a series of other top-ten country hits during the late 1980s and early 1990s, four of which topped the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. 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. Oslin initially performed as a folk singer with Guy Clark and then moved to New York where she performed as a chorine on and off-Broadway. She soon began doing advertising jingles which led to appearances in a number of television commercials. Her songwriting talent was recognized and she began writing songs performed by Dottie West, Gail Davies, Sissy Spacek, and The Judds. In 1987, after a brief run with Elektra Records, she broke through with RCA Records and became the first female songwriter to win the Country Music Association Song of the Year award for 80s Ladies and earned the Female Vocalist of the Year honors and a Grammy Award for the song. (Ironically, Oslin, who was in her mid 40s when she finally rose to fame, did so at a time when mainstream country radio first began its now commonplace practice of excluding older artists from their playlists.) Oslin had several more well-received songs before branching out into acting. She took roles on Paradise, and Ev
