Country music, also known as Country and Western, is a contemporary pop music that originated in the southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. Country music is characterized by simple tunes, steady rhythm, narrative, and a strong local flavor. The tunes of country music are generally smooth and beautiful, and the structure of the music is relatively simple. Country music has produced two very well-known best-selling singers. Most of them are ballad, two-part or three-part form. One is Elvis Presley, known as Elvis Presley, who is also a representative of the new music genre "rock and roll". She has won 7 Grammy Awards and the Country Music Peak Award (only Taylor Swift and Garth Brooks have won this award in the history of country music). Another, contemporary musician Garth Brooks, has sold 128 million albums and is the best-selling singer in American history. Country music traces its roots to the 1920s and is a fusion of traditional folk, Celtic, gospel and old-time music. In the 1940s, when the status of hillbilly music was declining, people began to refer to it as a unified term "country music". In the 1970s, it became more popular and replaced "country and western" in all parts of the world (except the United States and Ireland). " title.