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Chanteuse Country US née Tammy Wynette Graham, le 7 Février 1968 à Little Rock (Arkansas).
Most
entertainers move to Las Vegas as their career is winding down, but Tammy Graham
did the opposite. She used the Vegas clubs as a launching pad for her career as
a contemporary country vocalist, releasing her eponymous national debut in 1997
after years of toiling away in lounges.
As a child in Little Rock, Arkansas, Tammy Graham (b. Tammy Wynette Graham,
February 7, 1968) was something of a child prodigy, teaching herself how to play
rocking boogie-woogie piano like Jerry Lee
Lewis. By the age of nine, she had won several local and regional talent
contests, and had placed second in a world competition. She soon landed a job
demonstrating pianos at an instrument store in North Little Rock Mall. Graham
earned a name for herself and, on the advice of
Harold Bradley, she and her family
moved to Nashville. Throughout her teens, she billed herself as "Little Miss
Jerry Lee Lewis" and played clubs
throughout the town. When she was 14, she formed a backing band and began
touring the South. She spent three years in Nashville and on the road before
deciding to relocate to Las Vegas — the Music City wasn't interested in her kind
of rootsy, hard-driving country, and Vegas was much more receptive.
Graham and her parents moved to Vegas when she was 17. For the first few months,
the family lived on the money she won in talent contests, since neither of her
parents could find work. She eventually began working steadily in local casinos,
eventually earning a regular slot at Caesar's Palace. Within a few years, Graham
had earned a reputation for delivering passionate performances, and created a
buzz not only in Vegas, but also Nashville. In 1996, she signed to Career
Records, a subsidiary of Arista's Nashville division, and began working on her
debut album with producer Barry Beckett, who had previously worked with
Lorrie Morgan and
Tammy Wynette.
Tammy Graham's eponymous debut album was released in the spring of 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Graham
Talents : Vocals, Piano
Style musical : Traditional Country, Contemporary Country
Years in activity :
1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles
03/1996 | SP ARISTA 12953-7 (US) |
Cool Water / Tell Me Again |
03/1997 | SP ARISTA 13075-7 (US) | A Dozen Red Roses / Tell Me Again |
07/1997 | SP ARISTA 13089-7 (US) |
Cool Water / More Abour Love |
Album
04/1997 | CD ARISTA 18842 (US) | TAMMY GRAHAM - I Stopped Looking / Tell Me Again / When The Blues And My Baby Collide / More About Love / Old Heartaches / Little By Little / A Dozen Red Roses / Cool Water / Turnin' Up The Sad Song / Houdini |
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