Long-lastg, long-haired Crystal Gayle performs April 14 at Brown County Mic Center

Crystal Gayle is a Grammy-wng Amerin untry mic artist known for such songs as "Don't It Make My Brown Ey Blue" and "Talkg Your Sleep." * is crystal gayle still performing *

He was right -- not only did the song h number one on the untry charts 1977, also climbed to number two on the pop si, garnered substantial ternatnal airplay, and won Gayle a Grammy for Bt Female Country Vol.

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GAYLE'S OLR SISTER IS UNTRY LEGEND {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}LORETTA LYNN, AND FOLLOWG HER FOOTSTEPS, GAYLE SET OUT AT AN EARLY AGE TO BE A MICIAN. SHE RELEASED HER FIRST SGLE 1970 AND LAND HER FIRST NO. 1 H 1976. "DON'T IT MAKE MY BROWN EY BLUE" WOULD SOON MAKE GAYLE A CROSSOVER SUPERSTAR, HTG NO. 1 ON THE UNTRY CHART AND NO. 2 ON THE POP CHART. THAT SMASH LED TO SEVERAL OTHERS, AND GRAMMY AND CMA AWARDS FOLLOWED GAYLE THROUGHOUT THE 1970S AND 1980S.EARLY YEARSCRYSTAL GAYLE, ORIGALLY BRENDA GAIL WEBB, WAS BORN PATSVILLE, KENTUCKY, ON JANUARY 9, 1951. HER FAY MOVED TO WABASH, INDIANA, WHEN GAYLE WAS FOUR, AND HER FATHER DIED JT A FEW YEARS LATER OM NCER. GAYLE WAS THE YOUNGT OF EIGHT CHILDREN. ONE OF HER SISTERS, ALREADY OUT OF THE HOE WHEN GAYLE WAS BORN, WAS FUTURE UNTRY MIC LEGEND LORETTA LYNN. GAYLE WAS A SGER OM A YOUNG AGE, AND HER LOVE OF MIC, AND HER SISTER’S SUCCS, SPIRED HER TO PICK UP A GUAR AND PERFORM HIGH SCHOOL. SHE ALSO SANG BACKUP HER BROTHER’S BAND AND ACPANIED LYNN ON TOUR, GETTG AN EARLY TASTE OF THE LIFE OF A PROFSNAL TOURG MICIAN.HTG THE CHARTSIN 1970, DEC RERDS RELEASED GAYLE’S FIRST SGLE, "I'VE CRIED (THE BLU RIGHT OUT OF MY EY)," A TRADNAL UNTRY SONG WRTEN BY LYNN THAT LAND THE TOP 40 ON THE UNTRY CHART. THE LABEL WAS MORE THAN HAPPY TO HAVE GAYLE FOLLOW HER SISTER’S FAMO FOOTSTEPS, AND THEY RELEASED THREE MORE SGL OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS, ALL OF WHICH HELPED GAYLE GET SOME FOOTG WH LISTENERS. BUT GAYLE CID EARLY ON HER REER THAT SHE WANTED TO MAKE A NAME FOR HERSELF ON HER OWN TERMS, AND SHE LEFT DEC FOR UNED ARTISTS 1974. THERE, GAYLE WAS SET EE MILLY, AND HER FIRST ALBUM, CRYSTAL GAYLE, WAS RELEASED THAT SAME YEAR. “WRONG ROAD AGA” BEME HER FIRST BONA FI H, FDG A SPOT THE TOP 10 ON THE UNTRY CHART.SUPERSTARTWO YEARS LATER, GAYLE WOULD FD HER WAY TO NO. 1 WH “I'LL GET OVER YOU," AND HOT ON S HEELS ME THE CROSSOVER SMASH "DON'T IT MAKE MY BROWN EY BLUE," WHICH H NO. 1 ON THE UNTRY CHARTS AND NO. 2 ON THE POP CHARTS. THE ALBUM OM WHICH THE H ME, WE MT BELIEVE MAGIC, HELPED EARN GAYLE HER FIRST GRAMMY, FOR BT FEMALE COUNTRY VOL, AND SHE BEME THE FIRST FEMALE UNTRY ARTIST TO GO PLATUM. ALSO DURG THIS PERD, GAYLE MA SEVERAL NOTABLE MOV TO TELEVISN, STARRG HER OWN HOUR-LONG PRIME-TIME TV SPECIALS AND HOSTG A NCERT SPECIAL ON HBO AND A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. WHEN THE WORLD SAW GAYLE THROUGH THE APPEARANC, WH HER SIGNATURE HAIR, STRETCHG NEARLY TO THE FLOOR, HER FAN BASE GREW BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS.CONTUED SUCCSTHE 1970S WERE A REER-MAKG FOR GAYLE, AND THE SUCCS SHE FOUND WH “BROWN EY” NTUED WH SEVERAL MORE NO. 1 UNTRY HS, CLUDG "YOU NEVER MISS A REAL GOOD THG (TILL HE SAYS GOODBYE)" AND "TALKG YOUR SLEEP" (ALSO A H ON THE POP CHART). IN 1980, SHE LAND AT THE TOP OF THE CHARTS AGA WH "IF YOU EVER CHANGE YOUR MD" AND "IT'S LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE.” IN 1981, "YOU AND I," A DUET WH EDDIE RABBT, WAS ANOTHER CROSSOVER H, AND SHE MA TO NO. 1 FIVE MORE TIM OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS.WHILE GAYLE NTUED TO RERD SPORADILLY THE 1990S AND 2000S, SHE SAW HER LAST H 1986 WH “CRY.” HBAND AND CHILDRENSHE MARRIED BILL GATZIMOS 1971 AND THE UPLE HAVE TWO CHILDREN. SHE WAS AWARD A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME 2009. {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;MARG:0.9375REM 0 0 0.625REM;PADDG:0 0 0 1.25REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:0.9375REM 0;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} LI{PADDG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} LI::MARKER{LOR:#323232;}BIRTH YEAR: 1951BIRTH DATE: JANUARY 9, 1951BIRTH STATE: KENTUCKYBIRTH CY: PATSVILLEBIRTH COUNTRY: UNED STATGENR: FEMALEBT KNOWN FOR: CRYSTAL GAYLE IS A GRAMMY-WNG AMERIN UNTRY MIC ARTIST KNOWN FOR SUCH SONGS AS "DON'T IT MAKE MY BROWN EY BLUE" AND "TALKG YOUR SLEEP."INDTRIMICASTROLOGIL SIGN: CAPRIRNFACT CHECK

crystal gayle tours & ncert list along wh photos, vios, and setlists of their live performanc. * is crystal gayle still performing *

Now a bona fi star, Gayle followed her breakthrough succs wh a strg of hs that lasted for approximately the next .

CRYSTAL GAYLE CONCERT HISTORY

By Journal Staff CRYSTAL FALLS — The Crystal Theatre has announced a full slate of profsnal entertaers for the 2022 season, cludg Crystal Gayle as * is crystal gayle still performing *

Gayle h number one three tim 1983 ("Baby, What About You, " Rodney Crowell's "Till I Ga Control Aga, " "Our Love Is on the Fltle") and twice more 1984 ("The Sound of Goodbye, " "Turng Away"), and began to cross over to the adult ntemporary charts wh regulary as well. Gayle's last untry number on me 1986 wh "Cry" and the smooth Gary Morris duet "Mak' Up for Lost Time, " after which she -- rather abptly -- all but disappeared om the charts. She rerd two gospel albums durg the '90s, Someday and He Is Betiful, and 1999 pleted a tribute project, Crystal Gayle Sgs the Heart & Soul of Hoagy Carmichael.

CRYSTAL GAYLE HEADL CRYSTAL THEATRE SEASON

Crystal Gayle's birthplace, Patsville, Kentucky, is an inic place to vis for fans of untry mic om all over the world. * is crystal gayle still performing *

Gayle opened the new lennium wh 2000's In My Arms, an album of children's songs. When Crystal Gayle was lnchg her rerdg reer, big sister Loretta Lynn warned her off tradnal untry. "She said, 'Don't go this way bee they'll only pare you to me, '" Gayle, 68, tells PEOPLE, "and she was right.

Gayle went on to bee a queen of untry pop through the 1970s and '80s, wh 20 No. Her stature long ago permanently secured, Gayle is now enjoyg the eedom to return to her roots wh You Don't Know Me, an album ma up entirely of classic untry.

Released Friday, 's Gayle's first new album 16 years — and no one has been more supportive than Lynn, 87, who ntributed her vols to one of the songs.

WONRG WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LONG-HAIRED COUNTRY MIC GREAT CRYSTAL GAYLE?

The untry-pop legend Crystal Gayle opens up this week's issue of PEOPLE about her signature long mane, her relatnship wh sister Loretta Lynn and life now" emprop="scriptn * is crystal gayle still performing *

Crystal Gayle. "Put It Off Until Tomorrow, " -wrten by Dolly Parton and Bill Owens the mid-1960s, is actually a siblg tr, wh Lynn, Gayle and 76-year-old sister Peggy Sue Webb Wright. Lynn rerd her track at Gayle's Mic Row stud jt a few months before sufferg a stroke May 2017.

CRYSTAL GAYLE REVEALS SHE'S WANTED TO CUT HER LONG HAIR: SOME DAYS 'I JT WANT TO TAKE THE SCISSORS'

Crystal Gayle bgraphy and history on AllMic cludg birthday, bt songs, existg and new album rmatn, and more. * is crystal gayle still performing *

"It's very special that she would do , " Gayle says wistfully. Even so, the entire album n still be nsired a fay affair: Among the songs is "You Never Were Me, " wrten by Lynn and Gayle's late brother Jay Lee Webb.

And Crystal's son, Christos Gatzimos, a Nashville sound engeer, -produced (wh Gayle), rerd and mixed every track. In fact, the opportuny for Gayle to work wh her son spired the album. "It was really to show Chris some of the songs I grew up sgg, " Gayle says.

CRYSTAL GAYLE

Raised Indiana, where she moved to om Kentucky at age 4, Gayle says she listened to all kds of mic, but "untry mic is my soul. Perhaps the most personally signifint cut is "Ribbon of Darkns, " which Gayle sang for her first performance on the Grand Ole Opry — as a last-mute replacement for Lynn. Only 16 at the time, she went by Brenda Gayle, an alteratn of her given name, Brenda Gail Webb.

"Loretta was sick, " Gayle rells of her Opry but, "and I know Mooney, her hband, talked somebody to lettg me go on stage that night. Today, Gayle remembers ltle about the performance "other than jt beg there and sgg and jt beg so nervo. Fifty years later, January 2017, Gayle sang the same song on the night she was ducted to the Grand Ole Opry by Lynn.

FABULO PHOTOS OF CRYSTAL GAYLE THAT SHOW HER LONG HAIR FROM 1970S AND 1980S

An Opry regular for years, Gayle says the vatn, which Carrie Unrwood extend on stage November 2016, was "a nice surprise. But Gayle bsh asi the timg, sayg she has always felt part of the Opry fay.

Gayle ntu to keep an active artist schle, performg 40 to 60 dat a year. Gayle reports that Lynn, who liv about 75 wt of Nashville, is "strong" and happily entertas a strg of nstant guts: "She gets so many people visg that when you go down there, 's a ms. Fans, of urse, n expect "Brown Ey" as a nstant Gayle's setlist, along wh such other hs as "Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For" and "Talkg Your Sleep.

At least for the meantime, they n also expect to see Gayle's tramark hair that sweeps long past her waist. Gayle says she nsired cuttg off many years ago, but her dghter, Cathere (now 36), protted.

CRYSTAL GAYLE – RCHLED FOR AUG 20, 2022

"You n't cut your hair — you won't be Crystal Gayle, " her dghter told her, acrdg to her rellectn.

But Gayle says she's now toyg aga wh a signifint enunter wh scissors. Crystal Gayle has passed away at age 69 after sufferg om Alzheimer’s disease. Crystal Gayle died on April 3rd 2019 at the age of 69.

CRYSTAL GAYLEVERIFIED

What Happened To Crystal Gayle? Acrdg to reports, Crystal Gayle was diagnosed wh Alzheimer’s disease 2016. In 2017, Crystal Gayle unrwent surgery to remove part of her bra.

In January 2019, Crystal Gayle ncelled all her upg ncerts. On March 1st 2019, Crystal Gayle announced that she would be performg at the CMA awards. On March 4th 2019, Crystal Gayle was shed to the hospal where she was treated for hydratn.

On March 5th 2019, Crystal Gayl’ manager nfirmed that she had been admted to tensive re un. After beg hospalized, Crystal Gayle was put unr heavy sedatn. Crystal Gayle was born on November 26th 1957 Hoton, Texas.