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Nanci Griffith

Griffith was born in Seguin, Texas, and her career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, folk, and what she terms "folkabilly." Griffith won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her recording, Other Voices, Other Rooms. This album features Griffith covering the songs of artists who are her major influences. One of her better-known songs is "From a Distance," which was written and composed by Julie Gold, although Bette Midler's version achieved greater commercial success. Similarly, other artists have occasionally achieved greater success than Griffith herself with songs that she wrote or co-wrote. For example, Kathy Mattea had a country music top five hit with a 1986 cover of Griffith's "Love at the Five and Dime" and Suzy Bogguss had one of her largest hits with Griffith's and Tom Russell's "Outbound Plane". In 1994, Griffith teamed up with Jimmy Webb to contribute the song "If These Old Walls Could Speak" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country  produced by the Red Hot Organization. Griffith is a survivor of breast cancer which was diagnosed in 1996, and thyroid cancer in 1998.


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Born:
Jul 6, 1953 In Seguin - Texas - USA
Movie/TV Credits:
7
First Appeared:
In the series Austin City Limits 1975-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie For the Sake of the Song: The Story of Anderson Fair 2010-03-17
Known For
Poster of For the Sake of the Song: The Story of Anderson Fair
Poster of Nanci Griffith - Winter Marquee
Poster of Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Poster of Austin City Limits
Filmography
Movie For the Sake of the Song: The Story of Anderson Fair Self 2010-03-17
Movie Nanci Griffith - Winter Marquee Self 2002-09-24
Movie Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith Self 1999-09-14
Movie Annabelle's Wish Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited) 1997-10-21
Movie Nanci Griffith: Other Voices, Other Rooms Self 1993-12-31
Series Late Night with Conan O'Brien Unknown 1993-09-13
Series Austin City Limits Herself 1975-01-01