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Gretchen Wilson Graduates From High School

Gretchen Wilson has shed her high-school dropout tag (she quit in ninth grade) for a diploma at 34. Having passed her GED (General Educational Development) exam in April, the country star will walk in a graduation ceremony on May 15.

"I certainly don't want [my 7-year-old daughter] to think you can be this successful without an education," Wilson said in a statement.

And by this successful, she meant winning a Grammy in 2005, selling 4.5 million copies of her debut album, and watching "Redneck Woman"—Wilson's debut single—spend five weeks at the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
05.06.08