Brenda Lee has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Affiliation Worldwide (NSAI). Lee will probably be awarded with the NSAI President’s Keystone Award on the eighth annual Nashville Songwriter Awards. The ceremony will happen September 23, 2025 on the historic Ryman Auditorium.
The NSAI President’s Keystone Award acknowledges a person who has given vital contributions to the trade for the betterment of all songwriters. Lee was personally chosen by NSAI Board President Lee Thomas Miller.
Lee signed her first take care of the legendary Decca Information label earlier than her twelfth birthday. She had large pop hits from the late Fifties to the early Nineteen Sixties together with “Sweet Nothin’s,” “All Alone Am I,” “Break it to Me Gently” and “I’m Sorry.”
Lee offered greater than 100 million albums globally and had 9 consecutive high 10 Billboard Sizzling 100 hits from 1960 to 1962, setting a file for a feminine solo artist that was unequaled till over 20 years later. Although she discovered success in a number of genres, Lee had plenty of nation hits reminiscent of “Sunday Sunrise,” “Big Four Poster Bed,” and “Hallelujah, I Love Her So,” a duet with George Jones. Lee was the primary lady inducted into each the Rock and Roll and Nation Music Corridor of Fames and he or she is a recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award.
Lee holds the file for the longest hole between No. 1 charting hits, together with her first in 1960 (“I’m Sorry”) and the latest in November 2023 (“Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree”). With this, Lee broke a number of information, a lot of which have been held by Mariah Carey and “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Lee claims the third vacation No.1 ever on the Sizzling 100 and at 79-years-old, she’s the oldest lady to high the chart, surpassing earlier record-holders Cher (“Believe,” age 52) and Carey (“All I Want for Christmas is You,” age 53).
In February, Lee’s early-career hits assortment Love You! debuted on streaming as a digital deluxe album.
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