Alison Krauss - biography and CD's

BORN: July 23, 1971, Champaign, IL

When she was five years old, Alison Krauss began playing the violin, taking classical lessons. She soon tired of classical violin and began performing country and bluegrass. At the age of eight, she began entering talent contests and two years later, she had her own band. In 1983, when she was 12 years old, she won the Illinois State Fiddle Championship and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest. In 1985, Krauss made her recording debut on an album, playing on a record made by her brother Viktor, Jim Hoiles, and Bruce Weiss. The album was called Different Strokes.

Too Late to Cry, Alison's debut album, appeared in 1987. In 1989, Krauss and Union Station released Two Highways, which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording. Although the album didn't win the award, her next album, 1990's I've Got That Old Feeling, did. In 1992, Alison Krauss and Union Station released Every Time You Say Goodbye, which featured everything from "Orange Blossom Special" to the Beatles' "I Will" and Shawn Colvin's "I Don't Know Why". The album appeared in the country charts and Krauss' videos were shown on Country Music Television. I Know Who Holds Tomorrow was released in 1994 and was even more successful. But it was the 1995 compilation, reaching number two on the country charts, Now That I've Found You: A Collection, that made Krauss a star. The album went into the pop Top Ten and sold over a million copies.

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