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Sonny Osborne was born on 29 October, 1937 in Thousandsticks, Kentucky, US, is an American bluegrass musician (1937–2021). Discover Sonny Osborne's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 29 October, 1937
Birthday 29 October
Birthplace Thousandsticks, Kentucky, US
Date of death 24 October, 2021
Died Place Hendersonville, Tennessee, US
Nationality United States

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1937

Sonny Osborne (October 29, 1937October 24, 2021) was an American bluegrass musician and founding member of the Osborne Brothers.

Born on October 29, 1937, in Thousandsticks, Kentucky, Sonny Osborne's father was a farmer, teacher, and amateur banjo, guitar, and fiddle player.

1941

His older brother Bobby began playing bluegrass music after the family moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1941.

Circa August 2021, when Osborne suffered a stroke, he was married to his wife, Judy.

He died at around 1:30p.m. at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee on October 24, 2021.

Osborne was a baritone singer who played multiple types of banjos over his 53-year musical career.

Osborne was in the sixth grade when he received his first banjo.

1951

A prodigy on the instrument, Osborne joined his brother in playing with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers in the summer of 1951, but returned to Ohio that autumn after Bobby left for the United States Marine Corps.

1952

In summer 1952 (at 14-years-old), Sonny Osborne was hired by bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe, with whom he performed and recorded on the Grand Ole Opry.

1953

Barring a brief return to Ohio, Osborne stayed with Monroe into 1953.

When Osborne's brother, singer and mandolin player Bobby Osborne, returned home in 1953 from service in the Korean War, they formed the Osborne Brothers band (1953–2005).

They premiered on Knoxville, Tennessee's WROL on November 8, 1953; in their early years, they also performed on Wheeling Jamboree.

1954

The brothers and Jimmy Martin recorded twelve singles for RCA Records beginning in 1954.

1956

After Martin left due to interpersonal conflict, Red Allen joined the brothers in 1956, and the three later signed with MGM Records, though the record label was reluctant to invest heavily in the trio due to the then-rising popularity of rock and roll.

1958

Allen left in 1958 after the release of "Once More", after which the brothers marketed themselves simply as the Osborne Brothers.

1960

When performing at Antioch College in 1960, the brothers became the first bluegrass group to perform for a university audience.

1963

In 1963, they debuted at the Grand Ole Opry, signed with Decca Records, and evolved their sound with the mildly-successful release of "Up This Hill and Down": "bluegrass [, ...] kind of bluesy and a little bit of rock."

1964

Osborne was a member of the Grand Ole Opry (1964) and inductee to the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame (1994).

1967

It was 1967 when the brothers recorded and released their famous song, "Rocky Top" (written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) with 80,000 sales in its first month.

At the same time, however, the pair found themselves under scrutiny and attack by bluegrass purists for perceived derivations from the tradition.

Osborne Brothers albums had gradually included additional non-standard elements to their bluegrass, including pedal steel guitars, pianos, and string sections; the brothers had amplified their instruments for larger live performances, with Sonny Osborne padlocking his resonator "to keep the details of his pickup a secret"; and Sonny Osborne had patented a six-string banjo.

Sonny and Bobby defended themselves in Bluegrass Unlimited, saying they were trying to broaden the sensibilities of bluegrass music, while also trying to find a place for bluegrass music in contemporary pop culture.

1970

In the early 1970s, the two performed while traveling 291000 mi in 26 months.

By the late 1970s, he eschewed melodic licks, saying that though chromatics must be an easier technique than those he learned, they were disadvantaging young players.

Alongside his brother, Osborne was the driving force behind their electrifying bluegrass instruments, creating banjo licks cribbed from other genres, "and completely reinventing bluegrass harmonies with the famous stacked trio vocals."

1971

In 1971, they won the Country Music Association Award for Vocal Group of the Year; two years later they were the first bluegrass group to perform at the White House.

2005

After retiring in 2005 due to rotator cuff surgery, Osborne wrote a regular column for Bluegrass Today and continued to correspond with fans.

At the time of his death, Osborne was signed with Compass Records.

Osborne credited Earl Scruggs with much of his base banjo technique, though he eventually incorporated "steel licks, piano licks, and horns and anything I can hear."