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Crystal Gayle

One quarter Cherokee Indian, Crystal Gayle was born Brenda Gail Webb, the youngest of eight children in a desperately poor family, who grew up listening to country music on the radio. She was further inspired to become a singer when her elder sister Loretta Lynn became a country star and it was Loretta who suggested she changed her name to Crystal Gayle, using her second name as surname to avoid confusion with established singer Brenda Lee. Her first single I've Cried (The Blue Right Out Of My Eyes) in 1970 was written by Loretta Lynn, as were most of her early releases; but when...