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Carolyn Dawn Johnson - 100% match to Terri Clark

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 Read more

Mindy McCready - 99% match to Terri Clark

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 Read more

Pam Tillis - 99% match to Terri Clark

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 father’s country footsteps, although she had ambitions to sing and wr Read more

Lorrie Morgan - 88% match to Terri Clark

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 father’s 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 Read more

Chely Wright - 86% match to Terri Clark

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 Read more

Lee Ann Womack - 85% match to Terri Clark

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 Wynette and Dolly Parton was remarked upon by many, and acknowledged in print by the artist herself. Read more

Rebecca Lynn Howard - 81% match to Terri Clark

24 April 1979, Salyersville, Kentucky, USA. Country singer-songwriter Howard has always been musical, singing since she was a toddler and teaching herself the piano. She sang in school and church, and toured with the Kentucky Opry Variety Show. She begged her mother to take her to the mecca for country singers, Nashville, a trip which she later recounted in a track on her 20 Read more

Trisha Yearwood - 79% match to Terri Clark

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 old formula.In 1985, Yearwood started working as a session singer in Nashv Read more

Gretchen Wilson - 74% match to Terri Clark

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 her mother by the age of 14. It was here she first took to the stage, singing along to karaoke CDs Read more

Jamie O'Neal - 72% match to Terri Clark

Julie Roberts - 72% match to Terri Clark

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 Read more

Sara Evans - 72% match to Terri Clark

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 including Tim McGraw and Willie Nelson. However, Evans elected to launch a solo career instead, rel Read more

Patty Loveless - 70% match to Terri Clark

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 Read more

Deana Carter - 69% match to Terri Clark

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 Read more

Jessica Andrews - 65% match to Terri Clark

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 and carnivals as well as bars. News of her talent reached Nashville producer Byron Gallimore (Tim Mc Read more