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Kathy Mattea is one of the richest Country Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kathy Mattea's net worth $3 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
After having attended West Virginia University and dropping out, she relocated to Nashville. She worked for Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame as tour guide.
She was awarded the Grammy Award in 1993 for her gospel-inspired Christmas album.
Kathleen Alice Mattea (born June 21, 1959) is an American country music and bluegrass singer. Active since 1984 as a recording artist, she has charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including four that reached No. 1: “Goin’ Gone”, “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses”, “Come from the Heart”, and “Burnin’ Old Memories”, plus 12 more that charted within the top ten. She has released 14 studio albums, two Christmas albums, and one greatest hits album. Most of her material was recorded for Universal Music Group Nashville’s Mercury Records Nashville division between 1984 and 2000, with later albums being issued on Narada Productions, her own Captain Potato label, and Sugar Hill Records. Among her albums, she has received five gold certifications and one platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She has collaborated with Dolly Parton, Michael McDonald, Tim O’Brien, and her husband, Jon Vezner. Mattea is also a two-time Grammy Award winner: in 1990 for “Where’ve You Been”, and in 1993 for her Christmas album Good News. Her style is defined by traditional country, bluegrass, folk, and Celtic music influences.
Mattea had her first No. 1 single in late 1987 to early 1988 with “Goin’ Gone”. Co-written by Pat Alger and Fred Koller, this song also previously appeared on The Last of the True Believers. Mattea’s version was the lead single to her fourth album Untasted Honey. Following it was “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses”, which became her longest-tenured No. 1 single when it spent two weeks in that position. “Untold Stories” and “Life as We Knew It” were also released from the album, with both reaching the No. 4 position of the country charts. The album also featured bluegrass musician Tim O’Brien, who wrote both “Walk the Way the Wind Blows” and “Untold Stories”, as a duet partner on the track “The Battle Hymn of Love”. Jurek noted the album’s bluegrass influences with favor, while comparing “Untold Stories” to the work of Bill Monroe and praising the lyrics of “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses”. People magazine’s review of the album stated that “it’s just Mattea, sounding warm, strong, smart and generally splendid,” also commending the lyrical storytelling of “Life as We Knew It” and “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses”.
Mattea has been married to songwriter Jon Vezner since February 14, 1988. He started a publishing company underneath the apartment in which Mattea lived in the 1980s, and the two met after he jump-started her car. Vezner wrote four of Mattea’s singles: “Where’ve You Been”, “Whole Lotta Holes”, “Time Passes By”, and “A Few Good Things Remain”, along with singles by Diamond Rio and Clay Walker.
