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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Lisa Brokop
- 91% match to Victoria Shaw
6 June 1973, Surrey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. On stage as a singer from the age of seven, Brokop worked with her mother who played accordion. By her early teens, she was singing and playing guitar as a solo act and made her recording debut in 1991. Also in the early 90s, she took a leading role in the movie Harmony Cats. In this film she played a country singer w
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Mila Mason
- 80% match to Victoria Shaw
c. 1974, Dawson Springs, Kentucky, USA. As a child, Mason was surrounded by a showbusiness atmosphere; her mother, Diane Mason, performed in Las Vegas and elsewhere as a singer. She began writing songs while still very young. At the age of 15 she occasionally performed at her mothers shows, and two years later she moved to Nashville, Tennessee. There, she sang demos a
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Danni Leigh
- 72% match to Victoria Shaw
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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Claudia Church
- 61% match to Victoria Shaw
North Carolina, USA. Church wanted to be a country singer from the age of five, when she first listened to the Grand Ole Opry radio show from car radios in the junkyard owned by her grandfather in rural North Carolina. She sang in local church choirs and as soon as she was old enough, set off for Nashville. However, she was ill-equipped for the competitive music scene there,
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Regina Regina
- 33% match to Victoria Shaw
A well-manicured, airbrushed duo of female country singers, the participants in Regina Regina were named the Thelma and Louise of country music in 1996 by the head of their record label, James Stroud. Regina Leigh (29 March 1968) and Regina Nicks were brought to his attention after both had initially contemplated solo careers. Leigh had been singing backing vocal
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Jason Sellers
- 29% match to Victoria Shaw
4 March 1971, Gilmer, Texas, USA. Before releasing his debut album in 1997, country singer-songwriter Jason Sellers spent several years touring the western and central regions of America. His musical apprenticeship came as a member of the Sellers Family, a country gospel group for whom he played bass and sang. Performing over 250 shows a year, the family groups popular
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1 July 1961, Chatham, Ontario, Canada. Wright grew up in a farming community in Merlin, Ontario, and her parents were both country music performers. With her distinctive low and husky voice, she became one of Canadas most popular country singers and several songs from her first album, Do Right By Me, were recorded for the US market by Reba McEntire. Wright moved to Nas
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Tammy Cochran
- 23% match to Victoria Shaw
30 January 1972, Austinburg, Ohio, USA. This country singer was raised in rural Ohio, growing up in a music-loving, church-going family. Cochran began singing as a child with her two elder brothers, with the trio giving impromptu concerts for their parents. She later recalled her childhood and her brothers, who both succumbed to cystic fibrosis at an early age, on the song &
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George Ducas
- 21% match to Victoria Shaw
1 August 1971, Texas City, Texas, USA. This country singer-songwriter was raised by his mother in San Diego, California, until the age of 12, when he relocated to Houston, Texas, to live with his father and stepmother. He began writing and singing in his early teens, and performed with a number of college-based bands. After leaving college he began working in a bank during t
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James Bonamy
- 20% match to Victoria Shaw
29 April 1972, Winter Park, Florida, USA. Contemporary country singer Bonamy gravitated to the honky tonk scene through the auspices of his father, a fan of Johnny Paycheck and Merle Haggard. However, when he began to attend high school he invested much of his time in sports, at which he achieved great proficiency, while his listening tastes changed to those of Bon Jovi et a
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Jennifer Day
- 20% match to Victoria Shaw
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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Lari White
- 19% match to Victoria Shaw
Lari Michele White, 13 May 1965, Dunedin, Florida, USA. This country singer-songwriter was raised in Dunedin and began singing as a child, performing alongside her parents and brother in the family gospel group. A proficient piano player by her teens, she studied vocals and music engineering at the University of Miami and continued singing in local clubs. After graduating fr
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