Anita Kerr, one of the Nashville Sound’s most influential background vocalists and arrangers, died Monday, October 10, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland. She was three days shy of her ninety-fifth birthday. During the 1950s and 1960s, she and her namesake group, the Anita Kerr Singers, provided the background vocals on thousands of country and country-pop recordings and helped broaden country music’s appeal in the face of the commercial threat posed by rock & roll. Born into an Italian-immigrant fami

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