Artist: Tammy Cochran
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
Where I Am
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Singer Tammy Cochran was innate and raised in Ohio, in a little rural town called Austinburg. Its calm setting would be just right for a land song. She knew all of her neighbors and the great unwashed smiled and waved when soul walked by. There was besides sufficiency sorrowfulness and infliction in Cochran's life to write a rural area vocal some. She was the last innate of tierce children, the simply girl of Mabel and Delmar Cochran. Cochran had deuce elderly brothers, Shawn and Alan, both tragically born with cystic fibrosis. Shawn was entirely 14 when he lost his battle with the disease in 1980. Alan made it to 1991, to the geezerhood of 23. Her brothers' lives, illness, and deaths touched Cochran in a way that shows in her medicine. Especially in a touch call she co-wrote, called "Angels in Waiting."
Cochran's sire taught her the words to her first-class honours degree vocal, "Heartaches by the Numbers," when she was about vIII years old. A short time later she was granted a child's record player that came with a mike and that was that. Her favorite pursuit at once became vocalizing along with country tunes by artists like Barbara Mandrell and Loretta Lynn. She rather panax quinquefolius in front of an audience, with her brothers' help. The history is that they charged their parents a whole 50 cents to hang each of those early performances.
Over the next few geezerhood young Cochran gained go through telling at her family's christian church. By the time she was 12 she entered her first natural endowment competition, a local matchless, that she won. With a newfound confidence, she entered more than contests, winning o'er and over. The following step was to conjoin a ring, and she did, a figure of them. While still in her teens, she place together a band of her own called TC Country. The group appeared at fairs, weddings, and clubs.
Planning for a future that might never live up to her dreams of musical fame, Cochran finished high school day and took vocational training so she could be a secretary. That responsible thing through with, she went right on struggling to pass that dream. In 1991, total of conclusion, she picked up and touched to Nashville, TN, with her supportive parents as well. For old age Cochran tested to make a name for herself, to find a label that would back her. In 1996 she matrimonial, and more often than not gave up her hopes of making a living with her voice and songs. The marriage only lasted a match of old age, and so did her time away from tattle.
In 1998 all of the years of hard work began to bear off at last. It started when she was introduced to Shane Decker after one of her performances. Decker worked for Warner-Chappell Music as a songster. He offered to help her engender a demonstration ready. He likewise helped her land a caper writing songs at Warner-Chappell. Good things seemed to bechance cursorily subsequently that. In no sentence Cochran's music was organism showcased for labels, and when the dust settled, she had a signed condense with the major label Sony.
In May 2001, Tammy Cochran's self-titled debut album pip the stores. Her low gear individual was already burning up the airwaves, and its euphony video appearance on CMT to rave reviews. Suddenly Cochran was unitary of those overnight achiever stories you hear around -- that was only years of concentrated work in the making. Living Happened, her soph liberation, dropped the following year, with Where I Am arriving via the Shanachie mark in 2007.
