Kye Fleming

Kye Fleming , is an American singersongwriter and music publisher working in Nashville, Tennessee. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009 and has won more than 42 BMI Awards, including BMI Songwriter of the Year forconsecutive years . Fifteen of her compositions have achieved over one million performances each. Some of the most successful songs Fleming has written or cowritten include I Was Country When Country Wasnt Cool, Sleeping Single in a Double Bed, Smoky Mountain Rain, Roll On Mississippi, Years, I Wouldnt Have Missed It for the World, Nobody, Kansas City Lights, and Give Me Wings. In 2012, she was an honoree of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museums Poets and Prophets series which honors songwriters deemed to have made a significant contribution to country music. The series featured an extended interview with Fleming before an audience at the Country Music Hall of Fame, and film clips, recordings, and photos of Flemings life work and awards.

Though born in Pensacola, Florida, she only lived there for two weeks. Her father was in the Navy and the family had to move often. At various times she lived in Hawaii, California, Texas, and Arkansas, but most years were spent in Fort Smith, Arkansas, which her family considers home. Fleming was exposed to music through uncles who played in country bands. She took up guitar in the ninth grade and immediately began writing songs which she thought was easier than trying to learn somebody elses. Fleming knew then that she wanted to have a career in music. Joni Mitchell was her biggest influence. Theres not a better lyricist, said Fleming. She attended the University of Arkansas with a vocal scholarship, and performed as a solo act in coffeehouses and bars during that time. In 1974, at the same time that Elvis Presley was playing a show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fleming was singing in a hotel lounge in Tulsa, which happened to be the same hotel where Presleys band was staying. Presley players

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