# Kennedy Rose

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{{Short description|American country music duo}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- For groups; see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Kennedy Rose
| image                 = 
| background          = group_or_band
| origin              = United States
| genre               = [Country](/source/Country_music)
| years_active        = 1989-1994
| label               = [I.R.S. Records](/source/I.R.S._Records)
| spinoff_of = [Calamity Jane](/source/Calamity_Jane_(country_music_band))
| past_members        = [Mary Ann Kennedy](/source/Mary_Ann_Kennedy_(American_singer))<br />[Pam Rose](/source/Pam_Rose)
}}
'''Kennedy Rose''' was an American [country music](/source/country_music) duo composed of singer-songwriters [Mary Ann Kennedy](/source/Mary_Ann_Kennedy_(American_singer)) and [Pam Rose](/source/Pam_Rose). Both members of the duo previously recorded in the all-women band [Calamity Jane](/source/Calamity_Jane_(country_music_band)) on [Columbia Records](/source/Columbia_Records) in the 1980s.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc.|year=2008|pages=74|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref> After splitting from the band, Kennedy and Rose founded the duo and signed to [I.R.S. Records](/source/I.R.S._Records). As Kennedy Rose, they released two albums for the label: ''hai ku'' in 1989 and ''Walk the Line'' in 1994.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |author=Jason Ankeny |title=Kennedy Rose biography |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1678/biography|pure_url=yes}} |work=[Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) |accessdate=2009-10-07}}</ref> Following the release of ''hai ku'', the duo toured with [Sting](/source/Sting_(musician)).<ref>{{cite web |title=Kennedy Rose stretches limits of country music traditions |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF6120E0B8590A2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=Daily News of Los Angeles |date=1991-02-05 |accessdate=2009-10-07}}</ref> Kennedy and Rose have also written hit singles for [Restless Heart](/source/Restless_Heart) ("[I'll Still Be Loving You](/source/I'll_Still_Be_Loving_You)"), [Lee Greenwood](/source/Lee_Greenwood) ("Ring on her Finger, Time on Her Hands", later covered by [Reba McEntire](/source/Reba_McEntire)), [Patty Loveless](/source/Patty_Loveless) ("[You Will](/source/You_Will_(Patty_Loveless_song))") and [Martina McBride](/source/Martina_McBride) ("[Safe in the Arms of Love](/source/Safe_in_the_Arms_of_Love)", also recorded by [Baillie and the Boys](/source/Baillie_and_the_Boys) and [Michelle Wright](/source/Michelle_Wright)).<ref name="allmusic"/>

==Discography==

===Albums===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! style="width:10em;"| Title
! style="width:20em;"| Details
|-
! scope="row"|''hai ku''
| 
* Release date: 1990
* Label: [I.R.S. Records](/source/I.R.S._Records)
|-
! scope="row"|''Walk the Line''
| 
* Release date: February 8, 1994
* Label: I.R.S. Records
|}

===Singles===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Year
! style="width:10em;"| Single
! Album
|-
|rowspan=2|1990
! scope="row"| "[Love Like This](/source/Love_Like_This_(Kennedy_Rose_song))"<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1990/MM-1990-05-26.pdf | title=Previews: Singles | journal=Music & Media | pages=20 | date=May 26, 1990}}</ref>
| align="left" rowspan="2"| ''hai ku''
|-
! scope="row"| "The Only Chain"
|}

==References==
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Category:American country music groups
Category:American country music duos
Category:Musical groups established in 1989

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