Kathy Mattea is an outstanding female American country music singer.

She has a record of seventeen hit albums and more than thirty singles charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.

Kathy Mattea studied engineering at West Virginia University in 1976.

She joined the bluegrass band Pennsboro in 1976.

Kathy worked as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Mattea sang backup vocals for Bobby Goldsboro, for Nashville songwriter/producer Byron Hill.

Kathy Mattea released her debut album self-titled "Kathy Mattea" in 1984 on Mercury Records label.

The album "Kathy Mattea" includes the singles like 'Street Talk', 'Someone Is Falling in Love', 'You've Got a Soft Place to Fall', and 'That's Easy for You to Say'.

She released her second album "From My Heart" in 1985 on Mercury Records. The album consists of hit singles like 'It's Your Reuptation Talkin', 'He Won't Give In' and 'Heart of the Country'.

Both her albums peaked on the Top Country Albums charts.

Kathy got a big break both critically and commercially with the release of her third album "Walk the Way the Wind Blows" in 1986 on Mercury Records.

The album singles like 'Love at the Five and Dime' at #3, the title track at #10, 'You're the Power' at #5 and 'Train of Memories' at #6 on the Billboard country charts.

Mattea released many hit singles like 'Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses' in 1988, 'Come From the Heart' and 'Burnin' Old Memories' in 1989, 'She Came From Fort Worth' in 1990, 'Lonesome Standard Time' in 1992, 'Walking Away a Winner' in 1994, 'Nobody's Gonna Rain on Our Parade' in 1994, 'Maybe She's Human' in 1994 and '455 Rocket' in 1997.

Kathy Mattea won Grammy in 1990 for the single 'Where've You Been' which Mattea's husband Jon Vezner co-wrote with singer/songwriter Don Henry.

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