TERRI CLARK--STEP BY STEP 1968 Born August 5th 1977 Begins playing guitar at age 9 1983 At age 15, begins singing in clubs in Medicine hat, Alberta 1984 Wins first prize in Alberta country-singing contest 1987 Moves to Nashville at age 18, begins singing in Tootsie's Orchid Lounge 1989 Discovered by manager Woody Bowles 1993 Lands songwriting contract with Tree Publishing 1994 Sings with Mercury Records
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Clark has won six statuettes from the Canadian Country Music Association, earned the TNN/Music City News Star of Tomorrow award and been lauded by the Country Music Association, "Billboard", the Academy of Country Music and BMI. This year, she competed for a Juno Award in Canada as a Female Vocalist nominee alongside such sales titans as Celine Dion, Sarah McLachlan, Jann Arden and Shania Twain. She has gone beyond her wildest schoolgirl dreams. Terri Clark is known for the unbridled exuberance, boundless enthusiasm and outright joy she conveys. Few in contemporary Nashville express as much passion for their work. It comes naturally, for this young woman has been fantasizing about country stardom her whole life. Her grandparents were country entertainers in Quebec, and while growing up on the prairies of Alberta,Terri was fixated on becoming a country singer "to the point of obsession," as she puts it. At age 18 she moved to Music City and began singing in the legendary Tootsie's Orchid Lounge and other honky-tonk dives. She also sold cowboy boots and waitressed to make ends meet. Terri Clark was initially turned down by every record label on Music Row because non believed that a female singing hardcore country could succeed. Mercury Nashville gambled that she could and signed her in 1994. A year later, "Better Things To Do" made her a star. Place of Birth: Montreal/Quebec Canada Childhood Home: Medicine Hat, Alberta Current Residence: Nashville, Tennessee Instruments: Guitar, Cowbell
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