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Melba Montgomery (born October 14, 1938) is an American country music singer. She is best known for duet hit recordings in the 1960s with country music singer George Jones and later Charlie Louvin.
In the 1970s, Montgomery was a successful solo artist in her own right. Her best-known solo hit is the No. 1 hit, 'No Charge'.
Childhood
Born October 14, 1938, in Iron City, Tennessee, and raised in Florence, Alabama, Montgomery gained her first exposure to music through her father, a fiddler and guitarist who taught vocal lessons at the town's Methodist church. She started playing guitar at the age of ten. Music became a very important part of Montgomery's life and she soon had serious dreams about achieving success in the country music industry.
Rise to fame
At age 20, she and her brother won an amateur talent contest held at Nashville radio station WSM's Studio C, which then housed the Grand Ole Opry.
Montgomery gained a recording contract with United Artists Records in 1962 with the help of Roy Acuff.
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