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For five years, a struggling, little-known band by the name of Bering Strait knocked on doors in Nashville, trying to get noticed.
But this year turned out to be a pretty good one.
In February, they released their first record and nabbed their first Grammy nomination. And in a few months, their second record will be released.
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Bering Strait's sound is as pure and clean as the smell of fresh-cut bluegrass. Named after the waterway that divides Russia from America, this band does the opposite - it connects them. Correspondent Morley Safer reports in a broadcast that first aired last February.
That straightforward style is the stuff of country-music legend.
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And the sound may be down-home American, but Bering Strait is pure Russian. 60 Minutes met with them in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, the Mother Church of Country Music, home of the Grand Ole Opry.
"I started playing bluegrass when I was 10, and all we were doing is listening to tapes," says lead singer Natasha Borzilo