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FILE - Ray Charles, performs during the taping of "Ray Charles: 50 Years successful Music, uh-huh," a payment philharmonic gala for Starlight/Starbright Foundation successful Pasadena, Calif. connected Sept. 20, 1991. Charles volition beryllium inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

R&B fable Ray Charles and Grammy-winning duo The Judds volition beryllium inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame connected Monday announced their caller members, who volition beryllium formally inducted successful a ceremonial successful 2022.

Charles showed the commercialized imaginable of state euphony erstwhile helium released “Modern Sounds successful Country and Western Music" successful 1962, a genre-defying idiosyncratic task to the Georgia-born vocalist and soft player. Charles' versions of state classics became 1 of the champion selling state albums of the era.

Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna, were the astir palmy duo successful state euphony successful the 1980s, with much than a twelve No. 1 hits, including “Mama, He's Crazy,” “Love Can Build a Bridge" and “Rockin’ With the Rhythm of the Rain."

Other inductions see Eddie Bayers, a drummer successful Nashville for decades who worked connected 300 platinum records and is simply a subordinate of the Grand Ole Opry band. Bayers is the archetypal drummer to beryllium inducted successful the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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And pedal alloy guitar subordinate Pete Drake, a subordinate of Nashville's A-team of skilled league musicians, played connected hits similar “Stand By Your Man” by Tammy Wynette and “He Stopped Loving Her Today” by George Jones. Drake, who died successful 1988, is the archetypal pedal alloy guitar subordinate to beryllium inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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