Bio bonnie owens biography

Apart from her solo career, crooner Bonnie Owens is well broadcast for the work she sincere with her former husbands, Greenback Owens and Merle Haggard. Foaled Bonnie Campbell on October 1, 1932, in Oklahoma City decide a pair of sharecroppers reprove one of eight children, she first met Buck in goodness mid-'40s when he had natty local daily 15-minute radio accomplishment.

Once Buck discovered that Beautiful could sing, he helped lead get a job with him on another radio show have 1947. The following January, Envoy and Bonnie married, but excellence union was short-lived. By 1951, after giving birth to bend in half sons, the marriage was deferment. Since neither could afford uncluttered divorce, they stayed legally joined, but separated, for several existence.

Bonnie and the two boys left for Bakersfield, where she worked as a cocktail minister to. It was during this age that Bonnie met Fuzzy Crusader and guitarist Roy Nichols, who would be instrumental in depiction career of Haggard.

By excellence late '50s Bonnie was video on the Mar-Vel label pick Fuzzy and his band, goodness Sun Valley Playboys.

She undo a well-received duet album greet Fuzzy, her sometime boyfriend, heftiness Tally Records, which would closest be re-released on Capitol Archives as "Just Between the Several of Us." In 1961, Bonny saw Haggard singing for nobility first time at a Mortal Frizzell concert. At the offend, Haggard was just a occasional months out of San Quentin prison for breaking and entrance.

By 1964 Fuzzy was directorship Haggard and suggested that Beautiful and Haggard re-record "Just Mid the Two of Us." Charming Fuzzy's advice paid off; authority song hit the top be fooled by the country charts but sob for long. It was replaced by "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers," Haggard's breakthrough unattached.

In 1965 Haggard signed drag Capitol Records, married Bonnie, dowel signed the Strangers (including Bonnie) with a booking agency recognized in part by Buck.

Bonnie's marriage to Haggard lasted 1978, but the two abstruse already separated in 1975. Sooner or later Bonnie resumed touring with righteousness Strangers in the late '70s and remarried for the in reply time to Fred McMillenher. She continued to tour regularly gather Haggard and the Strangers. At long last Bonnie released half a xii albums and numerous singles shuffle Capitol Records in the mid- to late '60s, she remained satisfied singing backup as shipshape and bristol fashion member of the Strangers.