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Kay Toinette "K. T." Oslin, (born May 15, 1941, Crossett,
Arkansas) is a country
music singer and songwriter.
Kay T. Oslin was born in Crossett, Arkansas, but soon after her
birth her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee and then to Houston, Texas. Oslin
considers Houston her hometown.
Oslin initially performed as a folk singer with Guy Clark and then moved to New York where she performed as a chorine in Off Broadway and Broadway shows.[citation needed] She
soon began doing advertising jingles, which led to appearances in a number of television commercials.
She began writing songs performed by Dottie West, Gail Davies, Sissy Spacek, and The Judds.[citation needed]
In 1987, after a brief run with Elektra Records, she
broke through with RCA
Records and went to win the Country Music Association Song of the
Year award for the song "80s Ladies". Oslin also earned the Female Vocalist of
the Year honors and a Grammy
Award for the song. Additional hits included "Come Next Monday", "Hey
Bobby", "Hold Me", "Mary and Willie", "Do Ya", "This Woman", "Didn't Expect it
to Go Down This Way", and "I'll Always Come Back." By the early '90s, Oslin
branched out into acting, taking roles on Paradise, and Evening Shade with Burt Reynolds. On the big
screen she co-starred in The Thing Called Love with Sandra Bullock and River Phoenix.
In 1995, Oslin had coronary artery bypass
surgery.
Her 2001 album, Live Close By, Visit
Often was produced by Raul
Malo who also wrote several of the songs.
She ranked #37 in "CMT's
40 Greatest Women in Country Music" in 2002.[1]
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