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Music History. Now We're Goldmine Hall of Fame. Where Are They Now? Music Releases. Beyond Vinyl. In Memoriam. Tours and Concerts. By Bruce Sylvester It was the late s when Roy Orbison met, quickly fell in love with and wed with his second wife, Barbara Annemarie Wellhoener Jakobs, the teenage daughter of a successful German dress manufacturer.

By Mike Greenblatt. By Goldmine staff. By Patrick Prince. Music News. By Goldmine Staff. By Frank Daniels. By Warren Kurtz. Rock and Roll Shelf Life. She worked relentlessly to keep her husband's legacy not just alive but growing after his death, leading to his induction into Nashville's Songwriters Hall of Fame in and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award. Still Working received the song of the year award from BMI, the publishing rights organization, as publisher of Swift's hit single "You Belong to Me.

She produced another tribute album, "Roy: A Tribute to Roy Orbison," by Irish Australian singer-songwriter Damien Leith, which was released in Australia in conjunction with what would have been the singer's 75th birthday, on April 23 of this year. Barbara is survived by her sons Roy Kelton Orbison Jr. Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times. Barbara met her husband in when she was 17 years old and Orbison was They married nine months later.

Walk of Fame star for Roy Orbison. Barbara Orbison met her husband when she was 17 in Orbison accepted a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on her husband's behalf.