Willie Nelson’s sister Bobbie uninteresting at 91

Willie Nelson‘s sister and bandmate, Bobbie Nelson, has died. She became once 91.

Bobbie, who became once a pianist, singer and a member of the band Willie Nelson and Family, passed away Thursday morning, “peacefully and surrounded by family.”

“Her elegance, grace, magnificence and expertise made this world a nearer tell. She became once the principle member of Willie’s band, as his pianist and singer. Our hearts are damaged and she can seemingly be deeply missed. But we are so lucky to maintain had her in our lives. Please abet her family for your thoughts and give them the privacy they need at the present,” the Nelson family said in an announcement shared with Fox Info Digital.

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Bobbie toured alongside with her brother for better than five an extended time. She became once the distinctive member of the Willie Nelson and Family Band as a pianist and singer.

The family popular that Bobbie and Willie’s treasure of music came from their grandparents, who raised the siblings in Abbot, Texas.

“My grandfather had said to me when I became once learning to play the piano: You appreciate, if you happen to truly work at this, that it’s probably you’ll well also cancel your living playing music at some point,” Bobbie said previously. “And I never forgot that.”

All the contrivance in which thru their teenage years, the brother and sister joined Bud Fletcher, who would later change into Bobbie’s husband. Fletcher later died in a automotive accident, forcing Bobbie to opt their three sons as a single mother.

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At the time of her husband’s loss of life, Bobbie quit music to abet faculty in Citadel Worth, Texas, later leading her to land an tell of enterprise job. While working at the Hammond Organ Company, Bobbie lent her tell of enterprise talents to work at the corporate’s music library. She furthermore performed as a pianist round Austin and Nashville.

She previously called her return to music a “unbelievable thing.”

“I became once very contented to be ready to sit down down and honest appropriate play from my heart and soul,” she said.

She’d be half of her brother Willie’s band in 1972 when he signed a tackle Atlantic Files. Now not finest did she be half of him onstage, but she furthermore became once featured on his albums.

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Bobbie released her debut album “Audiobiography” in 2007. Two songs on the album featured Willie, now 88.

She became once featured on The Willie Nelson Family album in 2021.

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Willie and Bobbie furthermore penned two books together:  the memoir “Me and Sister Bobbie: Appropriate Tales of The Family Band” in 2020 and the 2021 formative years’s e book “Sister, Brother, Family: An American Childhood in Music.”