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- Birth nameKay Toinette Oslin
- K.T. Oslin was born on May 15, 1942 in Crossett, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress and composer, known for The Thing Called Love (1993), K.T. Oslin: 80's Ladies (1987) and K.T. Oslin: Come Next Monday (1990). She died on December 21, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- Performing songs that are full of sexual innuendo and bravado
- Performing songs from the points of view of sexually liberated women.
- Before passing away, she had been suffering from Parkinson's disease and lived in an assisted-living facility since 2016.
- After her chart successes, her songs were recorded by Anne Murray, Dorothy Moore, and Dusty Springfield.
- In the mid-1960s she performed in musical theater, including the touring production of "Hello, Dolly!". She later toured with that show's star, Carol Channing, before returning with it to Broadway. She also appeared in the late-'60s Broadway shows "Promises, Promises" and "Darling of the Day".
- In the 1980s, she wrote songs for Dottie West, the Judds, and Sissy Spacek.
- Inducted into the Texas Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
- I write songs the way I think women think today.
- It's always interesting to see how people perceive you. I was perceived as being very sexual. I think in the beginning, and that's just a big hoot: "Who me?"
- Writing is the key to all this success for me.
- If I were writing at 20, I would have written entirely differently, because you see life entirely differently. But as an almost 50 year old, it's different. It's sexual but not quite so in-your-face. It's a different deal. For me to get up there and say "I'm going to wear long fingernails and hair extensions and show a lot of skin, an then I'll sing about crying"... that wouldn't have worked. I just sang what I felt at the time.
- I decided to do some outside material once for an album. I stated getting some songs pitched to me. And I would get cardboard boxes full of cassette tapes. Every one of them stated out with crying. I said "Is this all we [women] do? Cry?"... And I thought, "Oh this is really, really boring.". But as it got younger, you know, it's about the cute boys.
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