Dwight Yoakam

Dwight Yoakam is, to me, country music that refuses to be polished into nothing. Out of Pikeville, Kentucky, he broke through in 1986 with Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. and went on to stack ten studio albums for Reprise. What I admire is that he kept one boot planted in the dusty, twangy Bakersfield and Appalachian traditions while still sounding modern enough to win an Americana Artist of the Year award. The tight jeans, the tilted cowboy hat, the half-shadowed face, it is all part of an aesthetic he has owned for decades. He is also an actor and filmmaker, but it is that stubborn loyalty to his roots that I find genuinely cool.

Name (English)

Dwight Yoakam

Name (Japanese)

ドワイト・ヨアカム

Reading

どわいと・よあかむ

Born

October 23, 1956 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

Origin

Pikeville, Kentucky, United States

Occupation

actor / singer-songwriter / musician / singer / film actor

High school

Northland High School

University

Ohio State University

Awards & achievements

• 2013 Americana Award for Artist of the Year
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 2007 Country Music Association Award for International Achievement

• Official sitehttps://www.dwightyoakam.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dwightyoakam/
• Xhttps://x.com/DwightYoakam
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%20Yoakam
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713099

Tags

• Kentucky
• actor
• singer-songwriter
• musician

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.