Marty Robbins Biography

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NAME: Marty Robbins
OCCUPATION: Singer
BIRTH DATE: September 26, 1925
DEATH DATE: November 08, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH: Glendale, Arizona
PLACE OF DEATH: Nashville, Tennessee
Full Name: Marty Robbins
Originally: Martin David Robinson

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Later Years

A major heart attack near the end of the 1960s hardly sidelined Robbins for long. By the end of 1969, he had scored his biggest hit in years with the ballad "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife," winning him his second Grammy award. Robbins also continued NASCAR racing, but after three near fatal crashes in 1975 he finally decided to give up driving to focus once again on his music. In the worst of these crashes, an incident that proved both Robbins' fearlessness and his compassion,

he swerved into a concrete wall at 145 mph to avoid smashing into a fellow racer's car that had stalled in front of him.

Robbins' 1970s hits included "Jolie Girl," "El Paso City," "Among My Souvenirs" and "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)."

Legacy

Robbins married Marizona Baldwin Robbins in 1948. They had two children and remained married until his death. In 1982, Robbins was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Although he had fallen very ill, Robbins managed to release one last single that year, fittingly titled "Some Memories Won't Die," before he passed away on December 8, 1982 at the age of 57.

Marty Robbins enjoyed one of the most illustrious careers in the history of country music. He recorded over 500 songs and 60 albums, won two Grammy Awards, and placed at least one song on the Billboard singles charts for a remarkable 19 consecutive years. Most remarkably, according to Robbins himself, he accomplished all this without any special musical talent. "I've done what I wanted to do," he said in an interview near the end of his life. "I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads."