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15 Facts About Anne Cochran

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Anne Cochran is best known as the lead touring vocalist for pianist and songwriter Jim Brickman, with whom she shared the top 5 Adult Contemporary radio format hit single "After All These Years" in 1998.

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Anne Cochran has released a number of solo albums, and the single "Someone Is Missing at Christmas" from her album This is the Season peaked at number 11 on the US Adult contemporary chart in 2005.

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Anne Cochran has shared duets with musicians and artists such as Donny Osmond, Michael Feinstein, Collin Raye, Dave Koz, Richie McDonald, Orlagh Fallon, Tracy Silverman, Jeff Timmons, Kristy Starling, Mario Frangoulis, Wayne Brady, Michael Bolton, Linda Eder and Mark Masri.

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Anne Cochran has stated she started singing around the same age she learned to talk, and at a young age her mother introduced her to singers such as Doris Day, Ella and Peggy Lee.

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Anne Cochran soon started gaining stage experience as the lead in school musicals, and from her teens was successively the lead vocalist of a trio of Cleveland rock bands: Hash Brown Band, Timmy and the Tuxedos, and Nitebridge.

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Anne Cochran met her husband soon after launching her self-titled debut album under the Fishhead label.

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Anne Cochran asked Cochran to be his female vocalist on the Asian tour following the release of his album By Heart.

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Anne Cochran knows me well enough that if I go off on a tangent, there's a reason for it.

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Anne Cochran became a regular fixture as touring lead vocalist with Brickman as well, and performed with him in such venues as Severance Hall and Carnegie Hall.

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Anne Cochran sang "After All these Years" to accompany Olympic Medalist Rosalind Sumner's final skating performances with "Stars On Ice" in venues as Madison Square Garden, Gund Arena and on NBC's A Golden Moment.

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Anne Cochran appears on all four of the Brickman and Friends PBS specials, and often co-hosts Brickman's syndicated radio show.

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Anne Cochran has written and released a number of solo albums, starting with Thinking of You in 1998.

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Anne Cochran released the solo album Lucky Girl in 2000.

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In 2013 Anne Cochran reunited with long time friend and collaborator Abe LaMarca and released the single "Rise and Shine".

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Anne Cochran continues to live in Cleveland with her husband and two sons.