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Alison Krauss
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Hailing from the world of bluegrass, Alison Krauss made her name with her exceptional fiddle-playing abilities as a teenager and then garnered even more recognition with her angelic voice and superb song selection. Alison holds the impressive record for most Grammy Award wins by an artist of any genre, a total of 26. Her most recent Grammy victories came due to her critically-acclaimed Raising Sand album with Robert Plant. Alison is in high demand as a collaborator and has worked with Dolly Parton, Nickel Creek, Reba McEntire and Brad Paisley, just to name a few.