ROGERS, KENNY
(*1938)
ROGERS, KENNY (b. Houston, Tex., August 21, 1938) The king of mid-1970s COUNTRYPOLITAN, Rogers did more to drag country music into the pop domain than any other singer of his generation. For this he is to be either glorified or vilified, or perhaps both, but in any case his gruff vocals and washed-in-the-water-of-Vegas stage show have made him a perennial country favorite even after his pop-chartin' days are over. Rogers was born to relative poverty in Houston; the lingering effects of the…