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Merle Haggard and David Allan Coe were in prison before they famous. Coe was in San Quentin where he saw Johnny Cash perform...it was then that David Allan Coe decided to go in to music.
Also Charles Manson took up music in prison, met the Beach Boys, gave them one song and they changed the lyrics.