Sara Evans
Sara Evans ( born February 5, 1971 as Sara Linn Evans in Booneville, Missouri) is an American country music singer.
Sara Evans grew up on a farm in Missouri. At the age of four, she began to make music. A little later she made her first two siblings as Evans Family Band on. At sixteen she was every Saturday night on the stage of a local dance hall.
In 1991 she moved to Nashville, where initially worked as a waitress. Here she met the musician Craig Schelske. She joined his band and married him two years later. The group undertook extensive tours. 1995 Evans returned back to Nashville. The well-known songwriter Harlan Howard was aware of them and gave a recording contract with the RCA label.
Career
Their first album, Three Chords and the Truth, was released in 1997., It received good reviews and earned her an Academy of Country Music Awards nomination, but was commercially not very successful. The breakthrough came with her second album, No Place That Far, which went gold after the eponymous single had captured the top spot on the country charts and was able to also place in the pop charts. Part of the songs on this album had Evans composed herself. Known quantities of the country scene were involved in the shooting, including Vince Gill, Martina McBride, George Jones, Alison Krauss and Jamie O'Hara.
In 2000 they reached the decoupled from their third album Single Born To Fly again number one on the country charts. The accompanying video was honored by the Country Music Association in 2001 as "Video of the Year". The album reached double platinum status.