The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will pay tribute to Lee with the cameo exhibition Brenda Lee: Dynamite, Presented by Great American Country Television Network, which opens in the Museum’s East Gallery on August 7, 2009, and will run through June 2010.“Brenda Lee is one of the most versatile singers ever to record in Nashville, and the only female artist to be enshrined in both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” said Museum Director Kyle Young. “She possesses a powerful voice that belies her four-feet-nine-inches-tall frame, and her innate interpretive skills have allowed her to tackle many disparate musical genres with equal authority. She has sold millions of records worldwide and charted in multiple categories, including country, pop, R&B and easy listening. In doing so, Brenda Lee has transcended musical boundaries to earn the awards and respect of fans and peers worldwide.”
In 1997, Lee was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2002, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and that same year bowed her autobiography, Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee, co-written with Robert K. Oermann and Lee’s daughter Julie Clay. In February 2009, Lee received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her creative contributions to the field of recording. Although she has scaled back her personal appearances and recordings in recent years to spend more time with her family, she continues to write and perform.
Brenda Lee: Dynamite will be accompanied by an ongoing series of programs throughout the exhibit’s duration.
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