Lorrie Morgan is a well-known American country music performer and the daughter of George Thomas Morgan, a great American singer. She began playing publicly at the age of 13 alongside her father, and at the age of 13, she performed her own version of ‘Paper Roses,’ a song written by Fred Spielman and Janice Torre and later covered by Anita Bryant, at the ‘Grand Ole Opry,’ a weekly country music showcase. Despite the fact that she began her career at a young age, she did not achieve stardom until the 1990s, when she rose to fame with her top-charting single ‘Trainwreck of Emotion,’ which she wrote and composed herself, and was followed by other mega hits such as ‘Five Minutes,’ ‘Dear Me,’ ‘Except for Monday,’ and ‘A Picture Of Me Without You.’ She has had over 20 success singles that have charted on the famous ‘Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks,’ and has released over a dozen studio albums, live shows, and other hit compilations during her long career as a singer. She has sold over six million records globally as a country artist with a large fan base. In terms of her personal life, she has been married six times, with three of her husbands being well-known country artists in the United States. She continues to create and compose songs for her Country Music admirers all around the world as an artist and musical legend.
Childhood and Adolescence
Lorrie Morgan was born Loretta Lynn Morgan in Nashville, Tennessee on June 27, 1959. She is the youngest of George Morgan’s four children and Anastasia Paridon’s four children. Marty Morgan, Candy Morgan, and Bethany Chamberlain are her siblings.
Early Career in Singing
Lorrie Morgan began singing and performing in her birthplace of Nashville with her father in 1972. She earned recognition among the local public by performing well-known songs and adding her own interpretations. At the age of 16, she took over her father’s band after his untimely death in 1975. She began creating her own songs and, in 1977, she joined the ‘Little Roy Wiggins’ band, which was fronted by steel guitarist Little Roy Wiggins. She also worked part-time as a receptionist and singer at Acuff-Rose Music, an American music publishing company. She achieved enough fame by doing hundreds of performances and gigs in clubs across the country to pave the way for her country singing career.
Lorrie Morgan was summoned to perform on television shows in Nashville as a rising vocalist, particularly by Ralph Emery, a morning show presenter and personal friend of her late father George Morgan. She recorded the song ‘I’m Completely Satisfied With You’ in 1979. This song became a minor hit in Nashville after being played on all radio stations and television shows. She began her career performing in nightclubs and opening for other well-known American and Canadian country singers and bands such as Jack Greene, Billy Thunderkloud and the Chieftones, and others.
She spent a couple of years in Nashville, Tennessee, performing for the Opryland USA amusement park as part of the bluegrass act while travelling with various musicians. She was also appointed as a full-time singer for TNN’s ‘Nashville Now.’ In 1984, she wrote and performed a new song, “Don’t Go Changing,” which was a minor hit in Nashville, and she was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry as the youngest vocalist in the same year.
A Professional Life
Lorrie Morgan’s professional career began in 1988, when she obtained a contract with Sony Music’s RCA Records, a well-known American record label. In 1989, she published her first album, ‘Leave the Light On,’ which included the popular country song ‘Trainwreck of Emotion.’ ‘Dear Me,’ a song from the same album, was also a hit. Her husband died, though, just as her professional career was taking off. After that, she began producing and creating great country songs, with ‘Five Minutes’ becoming the number one hit in 1990.
She launched her second album, ‘Something in Red,’ which featured eleven hit songs and peaked at No. 8 on the ‘Billboard Country Chart.’ It featured great songs such as ‘We Both Walk,’ ‘A Picture of Me,’ ‘Except for Monday,’ and the well-known duet ‘Best Woman Wins.’ This album was eventually certified platinum. ‘Watch Me,’ Lorrie Morgan’s third platinum album, was released in 1992 on ‘BNA Records,’ and featured 10 chart-topping songs such as ‘Half Enough,’ ‘I Guess You Had To Be There,’ ‘What Part of No,’ and ‘Watch Me.’
She was the only female vocalist to have three platinum records at the time, and she was named ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ by the ‘Music City News Awards,’ a fan-voted honor for country music, in 1994. In 1994, she released her fourth studio album, ‘War Paint,’ which featured songs like ‘My Night to Howl’ and ‘Don’t Touch Me.’ ‘Five Minutes,’ ‘Dear Me,’ ‘Watch Me,’ ‘Something In Red,’ and ‘I Didn’t Know My Own Strength’ were among the successes from her prior albums included on her ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation published in 1995. ‘Greater Need’ (1996), ‘Shakin’ Things Up’ (1997), ‘Secret Love’ (1998), ‘My Heart'(1999), ‘Show Me How’ (2004), ‘A Moment In Time’ (2009), ‘I Walk Alone’ (2010), ‘Dos Divas’ (2013), and ‘Letting Go..Slow’ (2014) were among her country albums published over the years (2016).
Major Projects of Lorrine
Lorrie Morgan is a country music legend who wrote and sang the songs for successful albums such as “Leave the Light On,” “Something in Red,” and “Watch Me.” She’s also shared the stage with legends like Dolly Parton, with whom she co-wrote the platinum-selling song “Best Woman Wins.” Her gold-certified albums include ‘War Paint’ (1994), ‘Greater Need’ (1996), and ‘Shaking Things Up’ (1997).
Achievements & Awards
‘Til a tear becomes a Rose,’ Lorrie Morgan’s duet with Keith Whitley, won the Country Music Association Award for vocal event of the year in 1990. ‘Music City News Awards’ named her ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ four times: in 1994, 1996, 1997, and 1998. Her album ‘Reflections: Greatest Hits’ (1995) received the ‘Hot Shot Debut’ Award for debuting in fifth place on the country album charts.
Personal Experiences of Lorrie
Lorrie Morgan married Ron Gaddis, a bass player, in 1979, but the couple divorced the following year. Morgan Anastasia Gaddis, her daughter, was her only child with him. Lorrie Morgan met American Country Music singer Keith Whitley, who was also touring to promote his record ‘L.A. to Miami,’ while doing shows at various clubs and venues. The couple married on November 22, 1986, and Keith Whitley died of alcohol poisoning in 1989, ending the marriage. Jesse Keith Whitley, the couple’s only child, is also a musician.
On October 27, 1991, she married Brad Thompson, a bus driver, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1993. On November 16, 1996, she married country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jon Randall for the fourth time, but the pair divorced in 1999. Lorrie Morgan married for the sixth time on September 29, 2001, to Sammy Kershaw, a country singer and politician. Due to personal difficulties, the couple divorced on October 23, 2007. On September 15, 2010, she married Randy White, a Tennessee businessman, and the couple is still together.
Estimated Net Worth
Lorrie Morgan is a country singer from the United States with a net worth of $6 million. Lorrie Morgan rose to prominence as the producer of a succession of chart-topping tunes in the late 1980s. At the age of 13, the late country musician George Morgan’s daughter began performing. She took up her father’s band at the age of 16 when he died in the mid-1970s.