Jennifer Day
- 25% match to Mary Duff
22 August 1979, McAlpin, Florida, USA. Day emphasises her catholic taste in music with Mariah Carey, Madonna and Motown Records cited as influences. She also has a fondness for Patsy Cline and as a teenager, she recorded Crazy on a demo cassette. Days grandmother ran a poker school and one player was the aunt of an RCA Records executive. She forwarded the t
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Jann Browne
- 23% match to Mary Duff
14 March 1954, Anderson, Indiana, USA. Browne was a featured vocalist with Asleep At The Wheel between 1981 and 1983. She then developed a solo career in California and married songwriter Roger Stebner in 1985. Despite guest musicians such as Duane Eddy, Emmylou Harris, Albert Lee and Wanda Jackson, her albums failed to sell. She has had minor US country hits with You
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11 April 1969, Texas, USA. Since settling in Nashville, Tennessee, in the late 90s, Tennison has made a considerable impression on those who feared that country music might be in danger of being overrun by neophytes with little or no experience of the real world outside their songs. Having formerly been a manual worker in the construction industry, Tennison, a single mother
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William Clarence Phillips, 28 January 1936, Canton, North Carolina, USA. Phillips grew up in an area steeped in country music and learned guitar and began singing before leaving high school to work as an upholsterer. In 1955, he joined theOld Southern Jamboree on WMIL Miami and sang at local clubs, before moving to Nashville in 1957. He joined Cedarwood Publishing as a songw
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Danni Leigh
- 12% match to Mary Duff
9 February 1970, Strasburg, Virginia, USA. Dubbed the female Dwight Yoakam by some country music writers, Danni Leigh rose to prominence after recording a demo album to pitch for a recording contract in Nashville. It was produced by Michael Knox, son of 50s rockabilly artist Buddy Knox, whom she met while waiting tables at Nashvilles Bluebird Café. A
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David Kersh
- 11% match to Mary Duff
9 December 1970, Humble, Texas, USA. Kersh is another anonymous, good-looking country newcomer, possessing a good voice, but one not distinctive enough to register. His debut album has been well received. The album is mostly up-tempo but the key track is the slow dance tune Goodnight Sweetheart, which made the US country Top 10 in 1996. On If I Never Stop Loving
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Rick Trevino
- 11% match to Mary Duff
15 June 1971, Austin, Texas, USA. Treviño is a Mexican-American who sings in both English and Spanish. His first single was released in English as Just Enough Rope and in Spanish as Bastante Cordon, with a bilingual version also available. Similarly, his first album, Just Enough Rope, was also available in Spanish as Dos Mundos. He moved to Col
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22 August 1961, Longview, Texas, USA. The 90s country singer/guitarist Ricky Lynn Gregg is of Native American descent. He formed two rock groups, the Ricky Lynn Project and Head East, and with them opened for Huey Lewis And The News and Heart. He then switched direction to honky tonk country and formed the band Cherokee Thunder with whom he played clubs in Dallas. He reached
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