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Wanda Jackson (born October 20, 1937 in Maud,
Oklahoma) was the first female Rock and roll|Rock
And Roll singer in the United States , releasing
her debut record in 1956. She is often hailed as
the Queen Of Rockabilly.

Wanda Jackson was still in high school when
country singer Hank Thompson heard her sing on an
Oklahoma City radio show and asked her to record
with his band. She dated Elvis|Elvis Presley, who
encouraged her to step away from the
country-tinged gospel she had been performing
since childhood and try her hand at Rock And Roll.
She developed her own distinctive voice and
performed in a variety of styles, from folksy
traditional tunes, to country twang and high
yodels to throaty, suggestive ballads. She is a
prolific singer of songs with wry lyrics such as
Fujiyama Mama, a song containing many references
to the World War II bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki; ironically, it became a #1 hit in Japan.

Wanda achieved great and continuing success
throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia, but has
never found the same level of fame in her native
United States. She toured with Rock And Roll
pioneers such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis,
and Buddy Holly. She has been nominated for the
Grammy award twice as the best performing female
singer and has been awarded the Oklahoma Native
Daughter Award. She has been inducted into the
Oklahoma Country Music Hall of Fame, the
Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the International Hall of
Fame, the International Gospel Music Hall of Fame,
the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, and the German
Country Music Hall of Fame, but remains
conspicuously absent from the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame.

A born-again Christian, in 1971, Wanda and her
husband/manager Wendell Goodman abandoned Rock And
Roll and spent the next twenty-five years
performing gospel in churches.

In 1996 Wanda Jackson was invited by alt-country
singer Rosie Flores to duet with her on an
upcoming album. The two were so pleased with the
results that Jackson joined Ms. Flores on a
handful of promotional club dates which was soon
extended into a five-week North American tour.
Jackson, plesantly surprised to discover that she
and her songs were known by a generation of
Rockabilly fans her grandchildrens' age, soon
assembled her own band and returned to the clubs
and festivals where she continues to perform.

In recent years Jackson has recorded with such
artists as The Cramps, Lee Rocker, Dave Alvin, and
Elvis Costello.

==External links==
* http://www.wandajackson.com/
* http://www.rockabillyhall.com/