Barbara Fairchild
Barbara Fairchild ( born November 1, 1950 in Knobel, Arkansas) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
At the age of five years, Barbara Fairchild first drew attention to himself by winning a talent contest. At fifteen, she played with a small label a single, and made her first appearance in a TV show. After graduation she went with some self-penned songs in his luggage on the way to Nashville. Here she got a job as a songwriter for a music publisher
Career
In 1969 she signed with Columbia label a recording contract. Your first singles reached middle courses of the top 100 until her 1972 Teddy Bear Song succeeded her first and only number - one hit. The song held two weeks at the top of the country charts and placed even in the pop charts. There was a Grammy nomination and several television appearances, including a BBC Special in the UK.
In the following years, Fairchild reach though several top 10 hits, but could not stop the gradual decrease in their sales numbers. End of the seventies ended her career first. Your marriage failed, and she left Nashville. A short time later, she was playing with Billy Walker a series of non- special handsome successful duet. A Come Back in Nashville attempt failed in 1984. Finally, she turned to gospel music, where it has established itself in the Christian music scene in 1989 as a member of the trio Heirloom.