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Roberta Lee Streeter (born July 27 1944, Chickasaw County, Mississippi), professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter. Gentry was one of the first female country music|country artists to write and produce her own material.<ref name=am>{{cite web|title=Bobbie Gentry|url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0bfpxq85ldae~T1</ref> She wrote much of her own material, drawing on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.
With her U.S. #1 album, ''Ode to Billie Joe (album)|Ode to Billie Joe'', and the Southern Gothic narrative of the title track, she won the Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy awards in 1968. "Ode to Billie Joe" was the fourth most popular song in the United States in 1967.<ref name=chair>{{cite web|url=http://www.chairborneranger.com/top100/top100-1967.htm|title=Chairborne Ranger Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Songs 1967|publisher=Chairborne Ranger</ref> Gentry charted nine singles in Billboard Hot 100 and four singles in the U.K. Top 40.<ref name=everyhit>{{cite web|url=http://www.everyhit.co.uk|title=UK Top 40 Hit Database|publisher=everyhit.co.uk|accessdate=2008-04-23</ref> After her first albums, she turned towards the variety show genre. After losing her popularity in the 1970s, she quit performing and has since lived privately ... read all
