AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Bobbie Nelson, the older sister of nation music legend Willie Nelson and longtime pianist in his band, has died, her household stated. She was 91.
An unique member of the Willie Nelson and Household Band, Bobbie Nelson performed piano for greater than 50 years together with her brother. She died Thursday “peacefully and surrounded by household,” the Nelson household stated in an announcement. A trigger and site of her loss of life weren't launched.
“Her magnificence, grace, magnificence and expertise made this world a greater place,” the Nelson household stated. “She was the primary member of Willie’s band, as his pianist and singer. Our hearts are damaged and he or she will likely be deeply missed.”
Raised in Abbott, Texas, Bobbie Nelson performed honky-tonks alongside her brother however gave up enjoying music to attend enterprise faculty after her husband, Bud Fletcher, died. Her first job out of faculty was on the Hammond Organ Firm the place she labored within the music library and demonstrated the corporate’s organs, the Nelson household stated.
“That was expertise for me, too, as a result of I had a lot music at my fingertips,” Bobbie Nelson informed The Related Press in a 2007 interview. “I used to be like a bit baby in a sweet retailer.”
In 1972, she joined her brother’s backing band and performed with him for many years.
“Our complete life has been one track after one other,” she stated, “studying to play music and his lovely skill to write down songs. I like to play his music. It’s really my favourite factor on this planet to play with Willie.”
Texas-born singer-songwriter and fiddle participant Amanda Shires wrote on Twitter that Nelson was an inspiration for her at a younger age. “Bobbie Nelson was one of many first girls musicians that I ever noticed on stage. She was the primary instance I had of a girl enjoying music whereas additionally having a household,” she wrote. “I’m honored to have recognized her. My deepest sympathies to the Nelson household.”
“No person performed piano like Bobbie Nelson and no one ever will. She was the epitome of sophistication, grace and elegance and I’m certain gonna miss seeing her on stage subsequent to @WillieNelson,” wrote singer-songwriter Margo Worth on Twitter.
Her debut album, “Autobiography” was launched in 2007. She collaborated together with her brother on two books: “Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of The Household Band” and a youngsters’s ebook referred to as “Sister, Brother, Household: An American Childhood in Music.”
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