Bobbie Gentry (Actress, Singer, and Songwriter), born on July 27, 1944 in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, USA. Bobbie Gentry's age 77 years & Zodiac Sign Leo, nationality American (by birth) & Race/Ethnicity is White. Let's check, How Tall is Bobbie Gentry?
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Bobbie Gentry Height
5 Feet 7 Inches (169 cm/1.69 m)
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| Height (in Feet-Inches) | 5 Feet 7 Inches |
| Height (in Centimeters) | 169 cm |
| Height (in Meters) | 1.69 m |
| Weight (in Kilograms) | 58 kg |
| Weight (in Pounds) | 128 lbs |
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Bobbie Gentry FAQs
Why is Bobbie Gentry so rich?
She was one of the original owners of the NBA’s Phoenix suns, owns tens of millions of dollars worth of real estate (mainly in California) and earned more than $3 million in royalties when Reb McEntire covered her song Fancy.
Why did Bobbie Gentry stop singing?
After cutting a flurry of albums in four years, she stopped after Patchwork in 1971, choosing to settle in Las Vegas where she had a popular residency for more than a decade. Two husbands, one child and a few meetings with Elvis Presley that set tabloids off all kept her in fame’s spotlight.
Did Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry have a relationship?
Bobbie released seven albums on Capitol including her defining works Patchwork, The Delta Sweete and Ode to Billie Joe, before her self-imposed retirement. She also had a successful partnership with Glen Campbell with whom she recorded an album of duets.
Is Bobby Jo Gentry still alive?
From everything I’ve been told by people in the music business, from Los Angeles to Nashville to Muscle Shoals, Gentry is living a secluded life in Los Angeles. Her last known performance was on Christmas night 1978 on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” and on Bob Hope’s 1981 “All-star Salute to Mother’s Day.”
Bobbie Gentry is an American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material. Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States. Gentry rose to international fame with her intriguing Southern Gothic narrative “Ode to Billie Joe” in 1967. The track spent four weeks as the No. 1 pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967 and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. Gentry charted eleven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and four singles on the United Kingdom Top 40. Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. After her first albums, she had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. She lost interest in performing in the late 1970s. Since 2010 Gentry has lived in a private gated community of Notting Creek in Shelby County, Tennessee.
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