American Country music singer Jody Miller passed away on October 6, 2022, seven years after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in Blanchard, Oklahoma. She was 80.
Jody Miller was born Myrna Joy Brooks on November 29, 1941, in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
She began her music career in the Los Angeles.
Miller signed to Capitol Records as a folk act in 1962, Miller dinted the pop charts with “He Walks Like a Man” and subsequently released the hit song “Queen of the House” in 1965. A reponse to Roger Miller’s hit “King of the Road”. The song won her a Grammy for Best Country & Western Vocal Performance – Female, and she also was nomination for Best New Country & Western Artist.
Several major country hits followed, many of them remakes of pop/rock classics such as “Baby I’m Yours,” “Be My Baby,” and “To Know Him Is to Love Him”.
Jody Miller retired from touring in the early 1980s, helping to run her husband Monty Brooks’ quarterhorse breeding and training business in Blanchard.
She then had a career as a Christian music singer in the 1990s and was inducted into the Country Gospel Music Association’s Hall of Fame in 1999.
Miller continued to record throughout her 60-year career, releasing her final album, Wayfaring Stranger, in 2020.
In 2021, she attended the groundbreaking for The Jody Miller Performing Arts Center, a Blanchard Public School building.
Jody Miller married horse trainer and breeder Monty Brooks in 1962, who died in 2014.
She is survived by her daughter, Robin Brooks and grandchildren Montana and Layla Sullivan.