Merle Haggard (Country Singer) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

Merle Ronald Haggard is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and country music player. Haggard was born in Oildale, California during the Great Depression. His childhood struggled after the death of his father and he was jailed many times when he was young. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he changed his life and began a successful career in country music. He was famous for his working class songs, sometimes with conformist and cynical themes contrasting with the anti-Vietnam sentiment prevailing in many popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and 1980s, he had 38 number one hits on the US country charts, some of which also entered Billboard's All-Generation Singles Chart. Haggard continued to release blockbuster albums throughout the 2000s

Birth name	Merle Ronald Haggard
Also known as	"The Hag"
Born	April 06, 1937, Oildale, California, U.S.
Died	April 06, 2016, Palo Cedro, California, U.S.
Genres	Country, outlaw country, Bakersfield sound
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, fiddle
Years active	1963–2016
Labels	Capitol, MCA, Epic, Curb, ANTI, Vanguard
Associated acts	The Strangers, The Buckaroos, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Buck Owens, George Jones, Ray Price, Johnny Paycheck, Glen Campbell, Charley Pride, Wynn Stewart, Ernest Tubb, Jimmy Dickens, Liz Anderson, Leona Williams, Marty Stuart, Toby Keith, Don Henley

Country Singer Merle Haggard was born on April 6, 1937 in Oildale, California, United States (He dies at the age of 79, on April 6, 2016).

He was the frontman of The Strangers and a country musician known as"Okie From Muskogee". He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994.

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Merle Haggard was born in the Zodiac sign Aries (The Ram), and 1937 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Ox (牛).

During the Great Depression, his family's property was destroyed by fire, forcing them to go west. As a young guy, Haggard got into legal trouble for minor offenses such as stealing.

He won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2010.

He married Leona Hobbs in 1956, Bonnie Owens in 1968, ^{Country Singer}Leona Williams in 1978, Debbie Parret in 1985, and Theresa Ann Lane on September 11, 1993.

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^{Country Singer}Kris Kristofferson once performed for Haggard in Washington, D.C.

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