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Willie Nelson
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Composer (Music Score), Actor Born: April 30, 1933 in Abbott, TX Biography:Texas born-and-bred musical legend "Willie Nelson" cracked into showbiz as a disc jockey in Fort Worth. He went on to join the "Ray Price" band, writing tunes for "Price" as well as a slew of other artists (Nelson's the man who penned "Patsy Cline"'s signature tune "Crazy"). Fronting his own group, The Outlaws, "Nelson" played the tanktown and honky-tonk circuit before scoring with his 1975 hit "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain." In 1979, he made a laudable film debut as "Robert Redford"'s sidekick in "The Electric Horseman"; one year later, he starred in the C&W "Intermezzo" clone "Honeysuckle Rose" (1980), for which he also wrote the score, including the chartbuster "On the Road Again." Nelson's acting resumé includes several made-for-TV westerns, among them 1990's "A Pair of Aces" and its 1992 sequel, and a 1987 remake of "Stagecoach"; he also appeared as "himself"--and a very weather-beaten self... Full Biography
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