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Keith Whitley

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Keith Whitley was an Eastern Kentucky singer who grew up near Sandy Hook and toured and recorded with Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys. He recorded "When You Say Nothing at All" and "I'm No Stranger to the Rain," which won CMA Single of the Year in 1989, and he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2022. He passed away on May 9, 1989.

Born
July 1, 1954
Hometown
Sandy Hook, Kentucky
Country Music Hall of Fame
Inducted 2022

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