Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018 she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Arris comes from a professional military family. Her father Walter Harris (1921-1993) was a Marine Corps officer, and her mother was Eugenia (1921-2014), a wartime military wife. She married the songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album "The Gliding Bird".