Alison Krauss (born on July 23, 1971 in Decatur, Illinois), is a bluegrass singer and virtuoso fiddle player who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. Almost certainly the most successful bluegrass musician ever, Krauss has had several platinum-selling albums, has received seventeen Grammy Awards (more than any other woman in the history of the Grammys), and been a featured performer in the Oscars. In 1995 she was awarded Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association.
A protégé of Bill Monroe, her music has wide appeal, beyond its traditional popularity within country and folk circles. Best known for her work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? movie soundtrack, as well as its companion album, Down from the Mountain, Krauss' music is also featured prominently on the Cold Mountain soundtrack, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Her band, Union Station, is a traditional bluegrass ensemble, but Krauss is not a complete purist, having covered songs by, among others, The Beatles. Union Station are: Barry Bales (bass, harmony vocals), Ron Block (banjo, guitar, lead & harmony vocals), Jerry Douglas (musician) (dobro), and Dan Tyminski (acoustic guitar, mandolin, lead & harmony vocals).
Alison Krauss: Grammy Awards
2003 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: James Taylor & Alison Krauss for How's The World Treating You
2003 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Live
2003 Best Country Instrumental Performance: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Cluck Old Hen
2002 Best Contemporary Folk Album: Nickel Creek, artist, Alison Krauss, producer.
2001 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Alison Krauss & Union Station for The Lucky One
2001 Best Bluegrass Album: Gary Paczosa (engineer) & Alison Krauss & Union Station (producers and artists) for New Favorite
2001 Album of the Year: for O Brother, Where Art Thou? - soundtrack
1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Alison Krauss, Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam, Earl Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Joe Diffie, Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs & Travis Tritt,artists, for Same Old Train
1997 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station for So Long So Wrong
1997 Best Country Instrumental Performance: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Little Liza Jane
1997 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Looking in the Eyes of Love
1996 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Alison Krauss & Union Station & Vince Gill for High Lonesome Sound
1996 Best Female Country Vocal Performance: for Baby, Now That I've Found You
1995 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Alison Krauss & Shenandoah for Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart
1994 Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Alison Krauss & Cox Family (Evelyn Cox, Lynn Cox, Sidney Cox, Suzanne Cox, Willard Cox) for I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
1992 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Every Time You Say Goodbye
1990 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss for I've Got That Old Feeling
Alison Krauss: CMA Awards
2004 Music Video of the Year: Whiskey Lullaby (directed by Rick Schroder)
2004 Musical Event of the Year: Whiskey Lullaby (Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss)
2001 Album of the Year: O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Mercury
1995 Female Vocalist of the Year
1995 Vocal Event of the Year: Somewhere In The Vicinity of the Heart (Alison Krauss and Shenandoah)
1995 Horizon Award
1995 Single of the Year: When You Say Nothing At All - BNA
Alison Krauss: Intl. Bluegrass Music Association Awards
2004 Recorded Event of the Year: Joe Nichols, Rhonda Vincent, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Terri Clark, Merle Haggard, Carl Jackson, Ronnie Dunn, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Glen Campbell, Leslie Satcher, Kathy Louvin, Pamela Brown Hayes, Linda Ronstadt, Patty Loveless, Jon Randall, Harley Allen, Dierks Bentley, Larry Cordle, Jerry Salley, Dolly Parton, Sonya Isaacs, Marty Stuart, Del McCoury, Pam Tillis, Johnny Cash & the Jordanaires for Livin’ Lovin’ Losin: Songs of the Louvin Brothers
2003 Album of the Year: Alison Krauss + Union Station for Live
2002 Album of the Year: Fairfield Four, John Hartford, Alison Krauss + Union Station, Dan Tyminski, The Cox Family, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, The Whites, Chris Thomas King with Colin Linden, and Emmylou Harris for Down from the Mountain
2001 Album of the Year: Norman Blake, James Carter & The Prisoners, The Cox Family, Fairfield Four, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Chris Thomas King, Alison Krauss, Harry McClintock, The Peasall Sisters, The Soggy Bottom Boys, Ralph Stanley, The Stanley Brothers, Gillian Welch, The Whites for O Brother, Where Art Thou? - soundtrack
2001 Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year: Alison Krauss + Union Station for Live
1995 Song of the Year: Vince Gill with Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch for High I'll Fly Away from O Brother, Where Art Thou?
1995 Entertainer of the Year
1995 Female Vocalist of the Year
1993 Female Vocalist of the Year
1993 Album of the Year: Every Time You Say Goodbye
1991 Female Vocalist of the Year
1991 Entertainer of the Year
1990 Female Vocalist of the Year
Other Awards
2005 CMT Music Awards: Collaborative Video of the Year category for Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley for their duet Whiskey Lullaby
2005 Academy of Country Music Awards: Vocal Event of the Year: Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley for Whiskey Lullaby
2005 Academy of Country Music Awards: Video of the Year: Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley for Whiskey Lullaby
2000 Canadian Country Music Award, Vocal/Instrumental Collaboration with Natalie Mac Master for Get Me Through December
1998 Dove Award (Gospel Music Association), Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year with Fernando Ortega for Children of the Living God
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