Jessi Colter

Jessi Colter ( born May 25, 1943 as Mirriam Johnson in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American country music singer.

From 1963 to 1968 Colter was married with guitarist Duane Eddy, with whom she also collaborated musically. Your first record brought out Colter 1969. In the same year she married country star Waylon Jennings and was with him. Become a part of the Outlaw Movement Their son, Shooter Jennings came in 1979 to the world.

Despite several produced in the 1970s Vinyl Jessi Colter was always in the shadow of her far more famous husband. In 1975, Jessi Colter was able to record their first and only No. 1 hit on the Billboard country charts with the single I'm Not Lisa. The written of her own song, which was produced by Ken Mansfield and Waylon Jennings, reached on 24 May 1975 top spot on the country charts and a week was able to hold at No. 1. After her solo releases was granted only modest hit parade success. Some successful duet with Waylon Jennings was in the title Storms Never Last. This single from the album Waylon & Jessi managed between 1980 and entered the top ten on the country charts.

In 1978 she was also involved with Jennings at the artistically minded, but commercially unsuccessful project "White Mansions " where the songwriter and producer Paul Kennerley the American Civil War from the perspective of some Southern characters processed musically.