The music, the voice, that beard! Kenny Rogers songs was a staple of both country and pop radio for decades starting in the late 60s, when he left the New Christy Minstrels and broke out with a few ...

Kenny Rogers was proud of himself after he made the song Lucille. However, his mother didn’t feel so good about it after the song was first played on the radio. The biggest problem for her was that ...

Dolly Parton was among the country stars who appeared on a CMT tribute to Kenny Rogers on Wednesday night (April 8), paying musical tribute to her collaborator and longtime friend by singing "Sweet ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Previously unreleased songs recorded by the late country superstar Kenny Rogers will be on a new record coming out in June. After a career spanning jazz, rock, country and pop, ...

Brad Paisley turned to social media on Saturday (March 21) to pay tribute to Kenny Rogers with a powerful rendition of "Sweet Music Man" that packs an emotional wallop. Paisley posted a video of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as “Lucille,” “Lady” and “Islands in the Stream” and embraced his persona ...

Rogers’ father would take him and his brothers to visit his grandfather in Texas, where they would play church hymns. In his autobiography, Luck of Something Like It, Rogers describes his trips fondly ...

Kenny Rogers' legacy will live on. A posthumous debut of never-released songs from the country icon is set to be released on June 2. Life Is Like A Song marks the first material released by Rogers ...

It started with a dinner invitation and an unseen lyric in a nondescript envelope. Fifteen minutes later, Steve Dorff and Marty Panzer had written a career-defining love song for Kenny Rogers. However ...

Award-winning singer/ songwriter, Kenny Rogers was born on August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas. He was the fourth of eight children to Lucile Lois, a nurse’s assistant and Edward Rogers, a carpenter.

Kenny Rogers, the GRAMMY and CMA Award-winning country music icon, who sold over 100 million albums and released two dozen No. 1 singles, has died at age 81. Rogers' family announced the news on his ...