Wendy Holcombe
American banjo player and singer
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Wendy Lou Holcombe (April 19, 1963 – February 14, 1987) was an American banjo player[1][2] and singer.[3]
Holcombe was born in Alabaster, Alabama and began playing the banjo at age eleven.[4]
As a child, Holcombe was featured on the first episode of PBS's Big Blue Marble in 1974,[5] NBC's The Big Show[6] the Country Boy Eddy Show,[7] and later, in 1977, The New Mickey Mouse Club,[8] and was featured on Kids are People Too.[9]
At the age of twelve, she was a regular performer on the television program Nashville on the Road.[10][11][12][13]
Holcombe performed at the Grand Ole Opry[14] and on the Eddie Rabbitt Show.[15] As well as the banjo she also played the fiddle, dobro, steel guitar, and bass.[16]
Holcombe toured throughout the United States, singing and playing the banjo, including The Strip in Las Vegas.[15][17] She performed at Wembley Festival in London, England. She also appeared regularly on the show Nashville Swing, and recorded a television special, Wendy Hooper, US Army that aired on NBC in 1981,[4] as well as on the sitcom Lewis & Clark in the 1981–82 season.[18] She frequently performed duets and comedy sketches with Buck Trent, and the pair were nominated for a Music City Award.[15]
Holcombe died of a congenital heart defect at the age of 23.[19]