Shelby Lynne was born on Shelby Lynn Moorer, October 22,1968 and is an American singer and songwriter and the older sister of singer-songwriter Allison Moorer.
24 Facts About Shelby Lynne
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The success of her pop rock album I Am Shelby Lynne led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, despite it being her sixth studio album.
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Shelby Lynne released a Dusty Springfield tribute album called Just a Little Lovin' in 2008.
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Shelby Lynne was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Jackson, Alabama, then Mobile, where she attended Theodore High School.
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In 1986, when Shelby Lynne was 17 and her sister was 14, he fatally shot her mother in the family's driveway.
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Shelby Lynne then turned the gun on himself while his daughters were in the house.
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Shelby Lynne appeared on TNN's country music show Nashville Now in 1987.
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Shelby Lynne soon landed a recording contract with Epic Records.
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Shelby Lynne's first recording for Epic was a duet with George Jones, "If I Could Bottle This Up", which became a top-50 hit in 1988.
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The follow-up, 1990's Tough All Over, took more of a mainstream country direction, and 1991's Soft Talk found Shelby Lynne moving into slick country pop.
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Shelby Lynne placed several songs on the country charts during this period, but none managed to break into the top 20.
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Vince Gill and Shelby Lynne performed the song at the 1997 CMA awards show.
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Shelby Lynne took a more low-key approach on her next effort.
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Just A Little Lovin' became the highest charting album of Shelby Lynne's career, reaching number 41 on the Billboard 200.
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Shelby Lynne followed up later that year with the holiday album Merry Christmas, featuring such classics as "Christmas Time Is Here" and "O Holy Night".
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Shelby Lynne performed the John Lennon song "Mother" at Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music in October 2001 and at Theatre Within's 30th annual Lennon tribute in November 2010.
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Shelby Lynne has worked professionally with her sister, Allison Moorer.
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On Moorer's live album Show, released in 2003, Shelby Lynne performed three duets with her sister.
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Shelby Lynne wrote "She Knows Where She Goes", one of the songs featured on Moorer's 2008 album Mockingbird.
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Alongside Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Shelby Lynne performed a duet of one of Martin's best known tunes, "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You".
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Shelby Lynne joined the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and, in 2015, the 14th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel, to assist independent musicians' careers.
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Shelby Lynne appeared in a 2009 episode of the Lifetime drama series Army Wives as a country singer trying to reunite with her son.
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Shelby Lynne played herself in an episode of the Starz comedy series Head Case.
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Shelby Lynne was featured in Live From Daryl's House with Daryl Hall in a "delta blues-meets-Philly soul" throwdown.