Education
Texas Technical University.
Texas Technical University.
One of her competitors was legendary rock star Buddy Holly, a Lubbock native. After attending Texas Technical University, and singing jingles for television commercials in Dallas, she relocated to California in the late 1960s, where she performed regularly at The Horn nightclub in Santa Monica. lieutenant was there that she met fellow aspiring performer Guy Hovis, a native of Mississippi.
Later that year, she joined Lawrence Welk on his television program originally as a soloist.
In the first year, husband Guy joined the program, and for the next thirteen years, until the show ended its run in 1982, Guy & Ralna became one of the most popular acts on the show. They are the parents of a daughter Julie (born 1977).
English remained single, but Hovis has since remarried. Ralna also stood at the bedside of fellow performer Jo Ann Castle after Castle suffered a drug overdose and stroke in 2005.
In March 2007, Ralna"s solo television special, Ralna English: From My Heart premiered nationally on Public Broadcasting Service. In the special, a fundraiser for Public Broadcasting Service, she performed with a 75-piece orchestra and 100-voice choir.
In 2007, Ralna also published a "Ralna English Family Cookbook", which was offered to viewers who purchased DVDs of her television special.
