Artist Name

Bobbie Gentry

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Album Releases

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1969 - Touch 'em With Love

1968 - The Delta Sweete

1968 - Local Gentry

1967 - Ode to Billie Joe

0 - Ode to Billy Joe / Bobbie Gentry & Glenn Campbell

0 - Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell

Members
1 Female

Popularity

42

Followers
73,730

Origin
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Mississippi, USA

Genre
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Soul

Style
Country

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Born

1942

Active
1964 to Present...

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Alternate Name
Roberta Lee Streeter

Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Ode to Billie Joe	280,242	4 users
Son of a Preacher Man	75,621	4 users
I'll Never Fall in Love Again	67,348	3 users
Mississippi Delta	29,858	3 users

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Roberta Lee Streeter (born July 27, 1942), professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American former singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material. Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.

Gentry shot to international fame with her intriguing Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe" in 1967. The track spent four weeks as the #1 pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967 and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. Gentry charted eleven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and four singles on the United Kingdom Top 40. Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. After her first albums, she had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. She lost interest in performing in the late 1970s and has since lived privately in Los Angeles.