Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss is a bluegrass fiddler with a beautiful, silky, voice and a great personality. She also performs music which has pop, country and folk-inspired influence. Krauss, who blended bluegrass and folk music with country accents beginning in her first career was a star in 1995 when she released her platinum-selling Now That We've Discovered You compilation. The singer matured in the years between her 1987 debut album Too Late to Crying, and the album Now That I've Found You from a young prodigy to a multifaceted, versatile musician. In the process she made some of the bluegrass's most innovative music of the 1980s and early 1990s. After that, through her performance in the soundtrack to the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? Krauss achieved mainstream recognition via a joint project dubbed Raising Sand that she co-produced with Robert Plant (the two reunited to record Raise the Roof 2021). Krauss first began playing violin at the age of 5 and then began her classical lessons. After a few years performing classical pieces, she started to perform bluegrass and country licks. The singer began performing in talent shows throughout Champaign and Illinois at the age eight. The first group she formed was just two years later. At the age of was 12, she won the Illinois State Fiddle Championship and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America declared her the best fiddler in the Midwest.