Cline, Patsy (born Virginia Patterson Hensley) (1932–1963)

US country music singer. One of the first country performers to achieve success on both the popular and country music charts, her music used innovative vocals and arrangements. She recorded such hits as ‘I Fall to Pieces’ (1960) and ‘Crazy’ (1961).

She was born in Winchester, Virginia. She played the piano and began singing country music while a teenager; she adopted the last name of her first husband and retained it after divorcing him. She died in a plane crash.