Nanci Griffith
Known for ActingBorn 1953-07-06 — died 2021-08-13Seguin, Texas, USA
Griffith was born in Seguin, Texas, and her career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, folk, and what she terms "folkabilly." Griffith won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her recording, Other Voices, Other Rooms.
This album features Griffith covering the songs of artists who were her major influences. One of her better-known songs is "From a Distance," which was written and composed by Julie Gold, although Bette Midler's version achieved greater commercial success. Similarly, other artists have occasionally achieved greater success than Griffith herself with songs that she wrote or co-wrote. For example, Kathy Mattea had a country music top five hit with a 1986 cover of Griffith's "Love at the Five and Dime" and Suzy Bogguss had one of her largest hits with Griffith's and Tom Russell's "Outbound Plane".
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In 1994, Griffith teamed up with Jimmy Webb to contribute the song "If These Old Walls Could Speak" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. Griffith was a survivor of breast cancer which was diagnosed in 1996, and thyroid cancer in 1998.
Known for
Annabelle's Wish
1997 · as Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Nanci Griffith: Other Voices, Other Rooms
1993 · as Self
Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith
1999 · as Self
For the Sake of the Song: The Story of Anderson Fair
2010 · as Self
Nanci Griffith - Winter Marquee
2002 · as Self
Nanci Griffith: From a Distance
2024
Nanci Griffith: One Fair Summer Evening
1988 · as Self