February 26 - Johnny Cash, vastly influential in all genres of American popular music, most notably country (died 2003).

The album of pop-styled covers of country standards is vastly influential in the genre.

Cowan has been vastly influential in the fostering of the liberal arts, helping shape core curricula for several liberal arts universities.

The album was hailed as a critical and commercial success, and would be vastly influential in later country music styles.

He was also one of the co-founders of the vastly influential Jazz Warriors big band.

Her book on photography raised major philosophical questions about the status of this vastly influential contemporary art form.

We were there not to service the latest release plans of the record companies but to represent a submerged but vastly influential music culture.

Simi is vastly influential; she knows everybody worth knowing.

The Shramana Gotama is vastly influential and charming, while I only possess small influence.

Throughout the year, country music was beset by the deaths of notable figures, including Johnny Cash, whose vastly influential musicianship transcended genres.