30 April 1971, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada. This country singer-songwriter was raised on a farm in Deadwood, Alberta, learning to play piano and singing in church. After finishing college Johnson relocated to Vancouver where she attended recording engineering school and performed her own material at any opportunity. She moved to her spiritual home of Nashville, Texas in
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Kellie Coffey
- 96% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
2 April 1978, Moore, Oklahoma, USA. This country singer-songwriter made an immediate impact with her 2002 debut, When You Lie Next To Me. Coffey began singing as a young child and continued performing throughout her school and college years, majoring at Oklahoma University in Vocal Performance. She moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, working in film and television
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Mindy McCready
- 87% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
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 Nashville when she was 18. Meeting up with producer David Malloy, she spent almost a year performing
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The Kinleys
- 70% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
Country vocal duo the Kinleys comprises twin sisters Heather and Jennifer Kinley (5 November 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA), with Heather also playing guitar and Jennifer piano. Growing up in Philadelphia the sisters began performing together at the age of eight, and before long their infatuation with the latest pop hits had faded and they began to explore their coun
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Chely Wright
- 67% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
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 would say, This will be great when they do the movie of my life. She pestered producer Har
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Julie Roberts
- 65% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
1 February 1979, Lancaster, South Carolina, USA. Country singer Roberts began performing as a child, touring around the southern states as part of a vocal group with her mother and aunt. After high school she ended up at Belmont University in Nashville where she began playing with a small combo on the local bar circuit. To pay the wages she took an office position with Mercu
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Pam Tillis
- 65% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
24 July 1957, Plant City, Florida, USA. The eldest of the five children of country singer Mel Tillis, Pam did not have the happiest childhood. Mel spent much of his time touring, her parents eventually parted and she grew up often looking after her siblings. Initially, she had no wish to follow in her fathers country footsteps, although she had ambitions to sing and wr
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Lila McCann
- 62% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
4 December 1981, Steilacoom, Washington, DC, USA. Country singer Lila McCann began her recording career at the age of 15, releasing an acclaimed self-titled debut album while vowing to continue her academic commitments. Her musical apprenticeship came as a guest singer at local dances with her fathers group, the Southlanders, from the age of four onwards. She had been
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Lorrie Morgan
- 62% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
Loretta Lynn Morgan, 27 June 1959, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The youngest daughter of country crooner and Grand Ole Opry star George Morgan, she followed in her fathers footsteps. She naturally began singing with her father and made her own Grand Ole Opry debut at the age of 13 at the old Ryman Auditorium, where her rendition of Paper Roses gained her a st
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Terri Clark
- 62% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
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 family: her maternal grandparents, Ray and Betty Gauthier, were popular country performers in Canad
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Patty Loveless
- 61% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
Patricia Lee Ramey, 4 January 1957, Pikeville, Kentucky, USA. The youngest of eight children, she began to write songs and sing in local venues with her brother Roger, after the family relocated to Louisville. When she was 14 years old they visited Nashville, where her singing and songwriting so impressed the Wilburn Brothers (although they felt she was not mature enough to
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Jessica Andrews
- 59% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
29 December 1983, Huntingdon, Tennessee, USA. Andrews tasted her first success in the fourth grade when her rendition of Dolly Partons I Will Always Love You won the competition at her school talent show. She started taking singing engagements at local fairs and carnivals as well as bars. News of her talent reached Nashville producer Byron Gallimore (Tim Mc
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Deana Carter
- 51% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
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 Orbison), Deana abandoned her early attempts to launch a career in music and spent her early twent
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Trick Pony
- 50% match to Rebecca Lynn Howard
A Highway 101 for the new millennium, US country rock band Trick Pony was formed in 1996 by Heidi Newfield (4 October 1970, Healdsburg, California, USA; vocals), Keith Burns (b. 16 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; guitar, vocals), and Ira Dean (b. 23 August, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; bass, vocals). Burns and Dean were both session musicians wanting to record their own mu
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