Terri Clark
Terri Clark ( * August 5, 1968 as Terri Lynn Sauson in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian country music singer whose career began in the mid-1990s. By 2009, they brought it to 22 hits on the American country charts, including two number-one success You're Easy on the Eyes (1998) and Girls Lie Too ( 2004). She is currently the only Canadian who was admitted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. This honor was given to her in 2004.
Terri Clark's grandparents Ray and Betty Gauthier, were well-known Canadian country musician who opened shows for, among others, Johnny Cash, George Jones and Little Jimmy Dickens. Clark's mother, Linda, was a member of the folk scene and brought her nine years to play the guitar. After graduation she moved to Nashville in 1987, where she was initially hired fifteen dollars a day from Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. It took several years in which she had to keep troublesome with simple jobs and low-paying gigs over water until they from the Mercury label was awarded a recording contract in 1994. Clark was marketed traditional with cowboy hat and appropriate clothing in comparison to other singers of the genre.
Career
Already their first single, Better Things To Do, 1995 made it to number three on the U.S. country charts. Your published in the same year debut album Terri Clark, which contains several self-composed songs, was awarded in the U.S. with platinum for over one million CDs sold. With When Boy Meets Girl and If I Were You further Top 10 singles were released. In early 1996, she appeared as the first Canadian on the Grand Ole Opry. Even in her home country, she received several awards: She was honored in 1997 as best new artist and 2001 as the best country music singer of the year with the Juno Award.
The following two albums Just The Same (1996) and How I Feel ( 1998) have sold just as well as her first film. Both in the U.S. and in Canada they were certified platinum. Clark had so firmly established in the scene. It was followed by numerous big hits in the country charts: Now That I Found You (1998, 2nd place) and You're Easy on the Eyes (1998, 1st place), I Just Wanna Be Mad (2002, 2nd place), I Wanna Do it All (2003, 3rd place ), and finally her until today last Top 10 Girls Lie Too success (2004, 1st place). Although their albums could continue to place high in the charts, the sales dropped by and only the Hit Collection Greatest Hits 1994-2004 has been certified gold. The album Life Goes On (2005) was the beginning of a difficult position: the coupled- placed singles only moderately, the previously released The World Needs a Drink was not even considered for the final CD release. Even the title was changed at short notice - Honky Tonky songs you could previously read or in some press reports. After these difficulties Clark left the record company Mercury, which subsequently published two retrospectives of the artist.
The record label BNA took the artist in 2007 under contract, the singles Dirty Girl and In My Next Life were great successes in Canada, Clark procured but only moderate hits in the United States. This meant that the planned album My Next Life has been postponed several times and finally not be published. The BNA contract ended prematurely the end of 2008, the following live album Terri Clark Live: . Road Rage (2009) was published only on the Internet. Briefly with The Long Way Home followed after a new studio work. So she made her debut on an independent label. In interviews they verlautbarte also that she wanted to take care of in the future primarily about the career in their home country and possibly overseas. In Canada, they are still among the most popular country musicians.