When her mother took the biblical name Naomi after her divorce in 1977, thirteen-year-old Christina decided to change her name as well. Wynonna was born Christina Claire Ciminella in Ashland, Kentucky, in 1964. When she shed her last name, billing herself simply as Wynonna, the auburn-haired singer was indulging in something of a family tradition for both Wynonna and Naomi Judd, remaking themselves has involved renaming themselves. Indeed, Wynonna ’s popularity in the first years of her solo career equalled or surpassed the enormous success the Judds had achieved as a duo.
In the process of her transformation into a solo star, Wynonna discovered a new sense of personal independence and at the same time stepped out musically onto country ’s cutting edge.
The lead vocalist but very much the silent partner in country music ’s most successful duo of the 1980s, the Judds, Wynonna Judd found herself on her own, musically and emotionally, when her mother, Naomi, was diagnosed with chronic hepatitis in the fall of 1990.
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