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Grand Ole Opry
Three things you need to know about Linda Martell, the first Black woman to perform at the Grand Ole Opry
Her dream was to become one of the Black trailblazers in a genre that was dominated by white acts. She knew it was not a walkover given that she was African American and a woman as well. It was rare for a Black woman to do country music in the 1960s but that was the…
