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Rose lee maphis biography of michael
“Mrs. Country Music,” The Pioneering Rose Lee Maphis Has Died
The final half of the country music couple that was so revered and influential in the business they went by “Mr.
and Mrs. Country Music” has passed on. Rose Lee Maphis, who along with her husband Joe Maphis, helped establish the Bakersfield Sound, and also was one of the first women to find stardom in the genre, died on Tuesday, October 26th.
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She was 98 years old, and had just been featured on Saving Country Music as one of country music’s Oldest Living Links and Legends.
Born December 29, 1922, in Baltimore, Maryland as Rose Lee Schetrompf, in 1939 when she was just 15, she was performing on the radio in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Since “Schetrompf” didn’t exactly roll off the tongue, she went by the name “Rose of the Mountains” since she often wore a flower in her hair, and one of her signature songs was “Carry Me Back to the Mountains.” She would perform