Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss is an American singer, songwriter and fiddler from Champaign, United States. Born in 1971, she begins as a teenage fiddler and signs to Rounder Records at 14. Her work sits across americana, bluegrass, contemporary country, country and folk, with bluegrass remaining the main part of her profile.

She becomes one of the best-known figures in contemporary bluegrass, known for recording in a way that keeps to the genre’s older traditions while adding a more polished sound. She works as a solo artist and with Alison Krauss & Union Station, moving between pop, mainstream country and roots music audiences.

Krauss also appears in Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and The Red Hots. Her recordings include Paper Airplane, which gives her first number one country album in the United States. Across her career she sells more than 11 million records and receives 26 Grammy Awards, the most won by any female artist in Grammy history, as well as 2 Oscar nominations.

She is known as an independent-label artist throughout her career and is associated with carefully produced recordings.