Nationality: United States. Executive summary: Prominent country picker. One of the main architects shaping the direction of modern country music, Chet Atkins maintained a reputation as a leading producer, performer and talent-spotter throughout the course of his career.
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Dr Atkins: 18st when he died. By BARRY WIGMORE, Daily Mail. Dr Robert Atkins - whose diet is followed by three million Britons - had a serious heart disease and was a clinically obese 18-and-a-half stone when he died, a report revealed yesterday. The 72-year-old died last April after hitting his head when he slipped on an icy New York street.
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Chet Atkins Dead at 77. Chet Atkins, whose guitar style influenced a generation of rock musicians even as he helped develop an easy listening country style to compete with it, died Saturday. He was 77. Funeral director Bill Ritter of Roesch Patton Funeral Home, which is handling the funeral, said Atkins died at home.
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Chet Atkins was born on the 20th of June 1924, which was a Friday. Chet Atkins's next birthday would be in 65 days (would be turning 93years old then). Today, Chet Atkins would be 92 years old. To be more precise, Chet Atkins would be 33606 days old or 806544 hours. We would think so.
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In 1982, after more than 30 years with RCA, Atkins left the label and joined Columbia Records. He released his first album with Columbia the same year, Work It Out With Chet Atkins.. He continued recording and releasing albums during the 1980s and 1990s, touring the United States, Africa, and Europe with his music.
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More News. Chet Atkins, known as Mr. Guitar, died on Saturday morning (June 30th) at his home in Nashville at age seventy-seven, after battling cancer for several years. Like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Willie, Waylon and the boys, Atkins altered the physical characteristics of country music, creating one of its most definable eras.
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At the onset of the 50s Atkins focused his attention on his session work, becoming a consultant for RCA in 1953 and developing his reputation as a recording artist. His own records had been steadily growing in popularity, and by 1955 he had his first hit in the form of a version of Mr. Sandman.
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Chet Atkins. With his unique guitar-picking style, Chet Atkins (1924-2001) produced music from country to jazz in a career spanning over 50 years, making him the most recorded solo instrumentalist in country music history.
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Through his production work during the late 1950s and the entirety of the 1960s, Chet Atkins played a major role in creating what came to be known as the 'Nashville sound', as well as being largely responsible for establishing the Nashville area as a major music center.
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Reed was voted instrumentalist of the year in 1970 by the Country Music Association. He won a Grammy Award for When You're Hot, You're Hot in 1971. A year earlier, he shared a Grammy with Chet Atkins for their collaboration, Me and Jerry.. In 1992, Atkins and Reed won a Grammy for Sneakin' Around.. Reed continued performing on the road into the late 1990s, doing about 80 shows a year.
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how old was chet atkins when he died?
Chet Atkins was 77 years old when he died.