Jean Shepard

Jean Shepard was born in 1933 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and grew up to become one of the few women in the 1950s to build a full country music career on her own terms. Her family moved to California, where she got her start, and she made her name with hard-edged honky-tonk vocals and songs that dealt directly with love and heartbreak. She recorded for Capitol Records and became a long-standing member of the Grand Ole Opry.