Patsy Cline is Coming Back as the First Hologram Country Star
Move over Michael Jackson. Patsy Cline is coming back too, and in the form of a holographic image according to Hologram USA and the singer’s estate. Patsy Cline will be the very first country legend to be revived in hologram form, and will be used in performances, commentary, and even participate in audience interaction.
“We debuted our hologram technology to the Country music world with Jimmy Kimmel at the Country Music Awards. Now Patsy Cline will demonstrate how we can bring all the warmth and virtuosity of a true icon back for new audiences,” said Alki David, CEO of Hologram USA, in a press release. Kimmel appeared simultaneously in L.A. and Nashville during last November’s CMA ceremony. “We chose Patsy as our first Country hologram project, and our first female hologram project, for a reason: she was a pioneer who influenced generations of singers around the globe.”
Though her career was short lived, Patsy Cline is considered one of the female country singers all others are measured by. Songs like “Crazy,” “I Fall to Pieces,” and “Walking After Midnight” have since become stalwart standards of the country music songbook, and as the choice to make a hologram proves, Patsy’s influence and popularity withstand the test of time. It will be interesting to see if the hologram withstands the test of time too. Maybe technology is the way to keep the old country greats alive if the industry continues to abandon them.
“We are very glad to share Patsy and her music with this new technology and format and honored by Hologram USA’s choice to have her as the first,” said Cline’s widower Charles Dick. “I am sure her fans, old and new, will be thrilled.”
Patsy Cline died tragically on March 5th, 1963 in a plane crash that also took the lives of Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes. She was 30-years-old.
Shawn
June 22, 2015 @ 9:12 am
Patsy Cline came back in 1999 when Waylon Jennings joined with her singing “My True Empty Arms”.
MH
June 22, 2015 @ 10:14 am
Still waiting for the addition of the “fake news” tag.
Sam Jimenez
June 22, 2015 @ 10:38 am
For fuck’s sake. What the hell is the matter with people?
Charlie
June 22, 2015 @ 12:06 pm
Hopefully a passing fad.
The Ghost of Buckshot Jones
June 22, 2015 @ 1:30 pm
Her track with Tupac is going to be f’n off the hook.
JacobB
June 22, 2015 @ 2:11 pm
People can say they will do this or that, but I doubt it will really happen.
Scotty J
June 22, 2015 @ 2:22 pm
Patsy Cline was only 30 years old when she died. She looks so much older than that in the picture above and in other pictures of her I have seen.
Harpo
June 22, 2015 @ 5:34 pm
She was in a very serious auto accident and had some very deep scars. She used a lot of make up
to mask them, which may explain why she looked older then her years.
Scotty J
June 22, 2015 @ 5:41 pm
Yeah could be. I know she wore wigs after the car accident in 1961 to cover a scar on her forehead. Just might be the times also look at Hank Sr he wasn’t even 30 when he died and he looked a lot older. Life was just harder then.
Albert
June 22, 2015 @ 2:45 pm
Patsy doesn’t stand a ‘ghost of a chance’ of making it in today’s country market ever since they stopped playing so many female holograms on the radio. Sheeeesh ….
Noah Eaton
June 22, 2015 @ 3:29 pm
Her hologram will protest coming out of the dressing room unless she gets to perform traditional country music! 😉
She would also emasculate any of the bro country archetypes who would try to hit on her! 😉
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Acca Dacca
June 23, 2015 @ 11:14 am
… Isn’t this in bad taste? Why would her estate authorize such a mercenary gesture? You can almost hear them saying “Hey, this way we can make even MORE money off of her name.” Like seriously, what the hell?
Next up is Kurt Cobain. As much as I dislike Nirvana’s place in the popular music zeitgeist, I would still be among those storming the gates. Let sleeping dogs lie. This is even more evidence of the lack of leadership in modern music. I’m not one that normally subscribes to the “everything sucks now, it was better back then” mindset, but it’s hard not to feel like this is the music industry’s version of the Hollywood reboot of older franchises model. Pretty soon they’ll be cloning these performers.