Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is a bluegrass and country fiddler, singer, and bandleader. She was born in Decatur, Illinois, and grew up in Champaign, where she began classical violin lessons at five. She entered her first fiddle contest at eight and won the Walnut Valley Festival fiddle championship at 13. She signed with Rounder Records as a teenager and released her debut album, Too Late to Cry, in 1987, at 16. Her 1990 album I've Got That Old Feeling won her first Grammy, and she joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1993. Her recording of Louisa Branscomb's "Steel Rails" reached platinum sales, and her 1995 compilation Now That I've Found You was certified double platinum. She sang on the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002, and toured with the soundtrack's artists on the Down from the Mountain tour. Raising Sand, her album with Robert Plant, won Album of the Year in 2009. She has won 27 Grammys and more than a dozen IBMA awards, including Entertainer of the Year with Union Station in 1991 and 1995. She was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2021.
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