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Remembering Wilma Lee Cooper
Longtime Grand Ole Opry star and West Virginia native Wilma Lee Cooper died last week at the age of 90. Suzanne Higgins offers this profile, produced in 2008 at the time of Wilma Lee's induction into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.
About Wilma Lee Cooper
Wilma Lee Leary, known professionally as Wilma Lee Cooper, was an American country music entertainer. She was a guitarist, banjo player and vocalist, and was given the title of "First Lady of Bluegrass" by the Smithsonian Institution in 1974. In 1994 She was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award from the IBMA. She was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2023.
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