Biography

Lacy J. Dalton (born Jill Lynne Byrem on October 13, 1946 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania), is an American country singer and songwriter with a career that has spanned many decades and touched the hearts of millions of music fans. In March 2017 Lacy J Dalton was inducted into the North American Country Music Association International Hall of Fame, and in 2018 she was nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Dalton has taken an interest in saving Nevada's wild horses after she found some of them roaming around Virginia City.

Since 2015, Lacy has been working with the William James Arts in Corrections program at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, California. Her work there has been focused on teaching basic song writing skills and techniques to level 4 inmates. Through her classes, a select group of inmates get the opportunity to learn the basic principles of song writing which they then use to develop songs and lyrics, both individually and as a group. The class culminates with the inmates recording those musical compositions and giving a live performance to an audience of prison and non-prison personnel.

In 1999, Lacy co-founded the Let 'em Run Foundation which received its 501(c)3 designation from the IRS in 2004. The Let 'em Run Foundation is dedicated to preserving, recovering, and providing sanctuary and homes for America's wild horses and burros who have no voice. Let 'em Run's mission is to serve as an educational, fund-raising and public relations entity, through its own efforts and in assisting similar non-profit organizations, to promote the appropriate and compassionate management of the wild horse, estray horse, and mustang population of Nevada and other species of endangered or mistreated animals.

Released her first album under the name Jill Croston.