Merle Haggard
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When you get to readin` about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
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Birthdate :April 6, 1937
Location :Bakersfield , California
Country : United States of America
Sign : Aries
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1960
Bore a resemblance to actor Warren Beatty during the 1960s & '70s.1967
Has scored 38 No. 1 hits on Billboard magazine's country singles charts between 1967 to 1988. Among his biggest hits included "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (1967); "Sing Me Back Home," "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" and "Mama Tried" (all 1968); "Hungry Eyes," "Working Man Blues" and "Okie From Muskogee" (all 1969); "The Fightin' Side of Me" (1970); "If We Make it Through December" (1973); and "Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star" (1988). He's also had duet hits with such performers as Leona Williams, Clint Eastwood, George Jones, Willie Nelson and Jewel Kilcher.1994
Inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994.2010
Recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients that year were Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Herman, Paul McCartney, and Bill T. Jones.
