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Father Of Bluegrass Music
No single figure in American popular music has so dominated a style as Bill Monroe has bluegrass music. A member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1939, he created the music out of his Eastern Kentucky roots, taking the fiddle tunes learned from his Uncle Pen Vandiver and the blues learned from black blues guitarist Arnold Schultz, fusing it all into a new sound. He was honored at the 1993 Grammys with a Lifetime Achievement Awards for his 57 years of recording what remain the definitive versions of hundreds of bluegrass classics.
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