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Sara Evans - 100% match to Jo Dee Messina

5 February 1971, New Franklin, Missouri, USA. Country singer Evans got her start in music by singing with her impoverished rural family from the age of four. In 1992 she married and moved to Oregon, working alongside a band entitled North Santiam. They opened shows for artists.... Read more

Martina McBride - 95% match to Jo Dee Messina

Martina Mariea Schiff, 29 July 1966, Sharon, Kansas, USA. One of the leaders in contemporary country music, McBride has also won converts within more puritanical country factions for the respect she affords the roots of the music. She and her husband sold T-shirts at Garth.... Read more

Terri Clark - 95% match to Jo Dee Messina

Terri Lynne Sauson, 5 August 1968, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. During the late 90s singer-songwriter Clark offered a serious challenge to Shania Twain and Michelle Wright for the title of most successful Canadian country export. Raised in Medicine Hat, Clark comes from a musical.... Read more

Shedaisy - 90% match to Jo Dee Messina

The huge success of the Dixie Chicks in the late 90s opened up the contemporary country market for other female country acts, the most successful of which was this family trio from Magna, Utah, USA. The Osborn sisters, Kristyn (24 August 1970), Kelsi (b. 21 November 1974) and.... Read more

Lee Ann Womack - 88% match to Jo Dee Messina

19 August 1966, Jacksonville, Texas, USA. A contemporary country artist fired by traditional songwriting virtues, Lee Ann Womack earned widespread praise in the late 90s for her fidelity to country music of a bygone era. Her material’s resemblance to early works by Tammy.... Read more

Trisha Yearwood - 77% match to Jo Dee Messina

Patricia Lynn Yearwood, 19 September 1964, Monticello, Georgia, USA. During the mid-90s Yearwood became a figurehead of the new wave of highly creative female country singers, including Suzy Bogguss, Kathy Mattea and Mary Chapin Carpenter, who breathed exciting new life into an.... Read more

Deana Carter - 74% match to Jo Dee Messina

4 January 1966, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Something of a latecomer to country music, Carter recorded her 1995 debut album at the age of 29. The daughter of Nashville alumnus Fred Carter Jnr. (a guitarist who played with everyone from Elvis Presley to Simon And Garfunkel to Roy.... Read more

Reba McEntire - 67% match to Jo Dee Messina

28 March 1955, Chockie, Oklahoma, USA. One of four children, McEntire’s family owned a 7, 000-acre ranch and participated in rodeos, a background which later inspired the song ‘Daddy’. She sang with her sister Susie and brother Pake McEntire as the Singing.... Read more

Jamie O'Neal - 65% match to Jo Dee Messina

Tim McGraw - 65% match to Jo Dee Messina

Samuel Timothy Smith, 1 May 1967, Delhi, Louisiana, USA. This highly popular country singer was raised in Start, Louisiana, and is the son of Frank Edwin ‘Tug’ McGraw, a noted left-handed relief pitcher for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, who retired in.... Read more

Jessica Andrews - 63% match to Jo Dee Messina

29 December 1983, Huntingdon, Tennessee, USA. Andrews tasted her first success in the fourth grade when her rendition of Dolly Parton’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ won the competition at her school talent show. She started taking singing engagements at local fairs.... Read more

Gretchen Wilson - 62% match to Jo Dee Messina

26 June 1973, Pocahontas, Illinois USA. Wilson’s poverty-stricken upbringing in rural Illinois bears similarities to the backgrounds of fellow country singers Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline. The daughter of a single teenage mother, Wilson was working in a local bar alongside.... Read more

John Michael Montgomery - 59% match to Jo Dee Messina

20 January 1965, Danville, Kentucky, USA. Montgomery arrived on the country music scene in 1993 with a debut album, Life’s A Dance, that became the only million-seller on the country charts by a new artist that year. Its title track was a number 4 hit single and ‘I.... Read more

Faith Hill - 58% match to Jo Dee Messina

Audrey Faith Perry, 21 September, 1967, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Raised in the small town of Star, Mississippi, USA, this popular country singer was singing at family gatherings from the age of three. She was influenced by Reba McEntire and formed her first band when she was.... Read more

Sugarland - 58% match to Jo Dee Messina

Atlanta, Georgia, USA-based country band formed by three established singer-songwriters, Jennifer Nettles (12 September 1974, Douglas, Georgia, USA), Kristen Hall and Kristian Bush (b. 14 March 1970, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA). Hall had already recorded several folk-based solo.... Read more

Chely Wright - 57% match to Jo Dee Messina

25 October 1970, Wellesville, Kansas, USA. As a child the 90s country singer Chely Wright wanted to be a star and aged 11 she had her first band. When she was 18 she was working at Opryland USA in Nashville where she met songwriters and musicians. When times were tough, she.... Read more

Mindy McCready - 56% match to Jo Dee Messina

Malinda Gayle McCready, 30 November 1975, Fort Meyers, Florida, USA. McCready emerged as one of the brightest new voices in country music in the late 90s, updating the traditional values of the genre for a new generation of listeners. Raised in southern Florida, she moved to.... Read more

Phil Vassar - 55% match to Jo Dee Messina

28 May 1964, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. Vassar’s father was a club singer, who bought his own restaurant. Vassar did well in athletics and football in school and obtained a degree in Business Administration from James Madison University. He moved to Nashville in 1987 and.... Read more

Diamond Rio - 54% match to Jo Dee Messina

This highly successful country band comprises Gene Johnson (10 August 1948, Jamestown, New York, USA; mandolin/fiddle), Jimmy Olander (b. 26 August 1961, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; lead guitar/banjo), Brian Prout (b. 4 December 1955, Troy, New York, USA; drums), Marty Roe (b..... Read more

Kellie Pickler - 54% match to Jo Dee Messina

28 June 1986, Albemarle, North Carolina, USA. This country pop singer owed her career to the power of reality television in the late 00s, with even distant runners-up earning recording contracts and prominent public profiles. Pickler had what many consider a classic country.... Read more