Biography

Melba Montgomery was born on October 14, 1938 in Iron City, Tennessee, USA. She was married to Jack Solomon. She died on January 15, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Montgomery was raised primarily in Florence, Alabama where she first began singing in the Methodist church before forming a trio with her two brothers. Montgomery launched her career in earnest at age 20, when the sibling trio won a Nashville-based talent contest for which Roy Acuff served as a judge.

She was embalmed at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens Funeral Home in Nashville, Tennessee immediately after her passing. A week after her passing, her closed-casket funeral service was held in that funeral home following her interment in its cemetery.