Lorrie Morgan

Lorrie Morgan married bass player Ron Gaddis in 1979, but the couple parted ways the following year. She had one child with him, daughter Morgan Anastasia Gaddis.

Whilst performing shows for various clubs and gigs, Lorrie Morgan got into a relationship with American Country Music singer Keith Whitley who was also touring to promote his album ‘L.A. to Miami’. The pair got married on 22nd November 1986; the marriage ended with the demise of Keith Whitley due to alcohol poisoning in 1989. The couple had one child, Jesse Keith Whitley, who is also a musician.

She got married to a bus driver named Brad Thompson on 27th October 1991, but the marriage ended in 1993 with a divorce. She tied the knot for the fourth time with country music singer, songwriter, and musician Jon Randall on 16th November 1996, but the couple divorced in 1999.

Lorrie Morgan was born Loretta Lynn Morgan on 27th June 1959 in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the youngest of four children of legendary country music singer George Morgan and Anastasia Paridon. Her siblings are Marty Morgan, Candy Morgan, and Bethany Chamberlain.

Lorrie Morgan started singing and performing from 1972 with her father in her hometown, Nashville. She performed famous songs, adding her own renditions, and gained popularity among the local audience.

After her father’s sudden demise in 1975, she took over his band at the age of 16. She started writing her own songs, and even paired with the ‘Little Roy Wiggins’ band, led by steel guitarist Little Roy Wiggins in 1977.

She also worked as a part-time receptionist and singer at an American Music Publishing firm ‘Acuff-Rose Music’. Performing hundreds of shows and gigs in clubs around the country, she gained enough popularity that paved the road for her country singing career.

As a rising vocalist, Lorrie Morgan was called to sing on television shows in Nashville, especially by Ralph Emery, a morning television show host, and close friend of her late father George Morgan.

In 1979, she recorded a song ‘I’m Completely Satisfied With You’. This song started playing on all radio-stations and TV shows, and became a small hit in Nashville. She started singing in night clubs and performed live openers for other famous American and Canadian country singers and bands like Jack Greene, ‘Billy Thunderkloud and the Chieftones’, and others.

Lorrie Morgan’s professional career began in 1988, when she signed a contract with a well-known American record name, ‘RCA Records’, owned by Sony Music. She released her first album ‘Leave the Light On’ in 1989 that covered 11 songs, including the hit country song ‘Trainwreck of Emotion’.

The song, ‘Dear Me’, from the same album was also a success. However, just as her professional career was taking off, her husband died. Moving on in her musical career, she started writing and composing hit country songs, and ‘Five Minutes’ became the number one hit in 1990.

She released her second album ‘Something in Red’ that comprised ten hit songs, which hit the No. 8 position on the ‘Billboard Country Chart.’ It included numerous hit songs like ‘We Both Walk’, ‘A Picture of Me’, ‘Except for Monday’, and the very famous duet song ‘Best Woman Wins’. This album eventually scored a platinum rating.

Lorrie Morgan’s third platinum album ‘Watch Me’ was released with ‘BNA Records’ in 1992 with ten chart buster songs that included ‘Half Enough’, ‘ ‘I Guess You Had To Be There’, ‘What Part of No’, and ‘Watch Me.’

She was only female vocalist at that time to earn three platinum albums, and was voted as ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ in 1994 by ‘Music City News Awards’, a fan-voted award for country music. She released her fourth studio album called ‘War Paint’ in 1994, with good tracks like ‘My Night to Howl’, and ‘Don’t Touch Me’.