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Infobox musical artist | name = Sweethearts of the Rodeo| background = group_or_band| image =| caption =| years_active = 19861996, 2010-present| origin = Los Angeles, California , United States | genre = Country music|Country | label = Columbia Records|Columbia Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass)|Sugar Hill | current_members = Janis Oliver Kristine Oliver| associated_acts = Foster & Lloyd Vince Gill | website = http://www.sweetheartsoftherodeo.com/ SweetHeartsOfTheRodeo.com Sweethearts of the Rodeo is an United States|American country music duo composed of sisters Janis Oliver (guitar, vocals) and Kristine Oliver (vocals). The duo recorded for Columbia Records between 1986 and 1991, releasing four albums and twelve singles for the label. In the 1990s, they also recorded two albums for Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass)|Sugar Hill Records . The duo reached Top Ten on the Hot Country Songs charts seven times in the late 1980s, with its highest singles being the #4 hits "Midnight Girl/Sunset Town" and "Chains of Gold," both in 1987.
Biography
Janis Oliver was born birth-date and age|March 1, 1954cite book | title = Country Music: The Encyclopedia | first1 = Irwin | last1 = Stambler | first2 = Grelun | last2 = Landon | first3 = Lyndon | last3 = Stambler | year = 2000 | publisher = Macmillan | page = 478 | url = http://books.google.com/books? id=d18K8QWcEo8C& pg=PA478#v=onepage& q& f=falsecite book | title = Entertainment Celebrities | first = Norbert B. | last = Laufenberg | year = 2005 | publisher = Trafford Publishing | page = 260 | url = http://books.google.com/books? id=mzTW9Nitee4C& pg=PA260cite web | title = Vince and Janis Gill | url = http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20115290,00.html | work = People (magazine)|People | first = Cynthia | last = Sanz | date = June 10, 1991 | quote = Janis, 37cite news | title = In the shadows of the spotlight | url = http://amygrant.offramp.org/info/2003/17.html | work = The Tennessean | first = Beverly | last = Keel | date = April 20, 2003 | quote = Cummings, 49 and her sister Kristine Oliver was born birth-date and age|November 28, 1956cite web | url = http://www.allrovi.com/name/arnold-mn0001564704 | title = Kristine Arnold | publisher = Rovi.com | accessdate = March 22, 2012cite book | title = Entertainment Celebrities | first = Norbert B. | last = Laufenberg | year = 2005 | publisher = Trafford Publishing | page = 24 | url = http://books.google.com/books? id=mzTW9Nitee4C& pg=PA24 in the South Bay, Los Angeles|South Bay region of Los Angeles, California . They were raised in Manhattan Beach, California , where they began singing while in elementary school and performed bluegrass music as the Oliver Sisters during their teenage years.cite web | url = Allmusic|class=artist|id=p1830/biography|pure_url=yes | title = Sweethearts of the Rodeo biography | last = Huey | first = Steve | work = Allmusic | accessdate = September 13, 2010
The duo later renamed itself Sweethearts of the Rodeo, taking the name from The Byrds ' album Sweetheart of the Rodeo . After being discovered by Emmylou Harris , they secured slots as opening acts and backing vocalists for other artists. In 1977, the Sweethearts opened a Redondo Beach, California , show for Byron Berline|Sundance , a group which included a then 19-year-old Vince Gill . In 1980, Janis married Gill, who by then was a member of Pure Prairie League , and Kristine married Leonard Arnold of the band Blue Steel. In 1983 the Gills moved to Nashville, Tennessee , followed soon after by the Arnolds, and the sisters began singing together again.
19861992: Columbia Records
In 1985, Sweethearts of the Rodeo won the Wrangler Country Showdown talent contest and soon after signed with Columbia Records . Sweethearts of the Rodeo's first single, "Hey Doll Baby", debuted in April 1986,cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008 | publisher = Record Research, Inc | year = 2008 | pages = 412413 | isbn = 0-89820-177-2 followed by the release their self-titled debut album. After it came the duo's first Top Ten hit at #7, "Since I Found You." The song was written by Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd, and its success helped Foster & Lloyd secure a record deal of its own. Four more singles from the album followed, including the #4 hits "Midnight Girl/Sunset Town" and "Chains of Gold," which would be their highest-charting singles.
A second album, One Time, One Night , accounted for three more Top Ten hits: "Satisfy You," "Blue to the Bone" and a cover of The Beatles ' " I Feel Fine ," but its next single, "If I Never See Midnight Again," peaked at #39. Two more albums for Columbia followed (1990's Buffalo Zone and 1992's Sisters (Sweethearts of the Rodeo album)| Sisters ), but neither produced any major hits, and Columbia dropped the duo in 1992.
1993present
Sweethearts of the Rodeo continued to tour in the 1990s, later releasing two albums of bluegrass music on the Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass)|Sugar Hill label: Rodeo Waltz in 1993 and Beautiful Lies in 1996.cite web | url = http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/sweethearts_of_the_rodeo/bio.jhtml | title = Sweethearts of the Rodeo: Bio | publisher = CMT .com Janis and Kristine owned a clothing store in Franklin, Tennessee called "Gill & Arnold" for a time in the late 1990s that has since closed. Janis and Vince Gill were divorced in 1997cite news | title = Finally a Duet | url = http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20129901,00.html | work = People (magazine)|People | first = Erik | last = Meers | date = November 29, 1999 and she married Roy Cummins in 2000.
