Artist: Gretchen Peters
Genre(s):
Country: Bluegrass
Discography:
Halcyon
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Known as a author of intelligent and introverted songs in the country/folk/pop vena, Gretchen Peters achieved ill fame through area stars natural covering her material. Among the artists to hold hits with her songs were Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis, George Strait, Martina McBride, and Patty Loveless. Peters was born in Westchester County, NY, and lived in that location until her parents divorced when she was eight-spot, at which point she moved with her mother to Boulder, CO, where as a teen she wrote songs and performed in the town's roaring alive music scenery. She touched to Nashville in 1988 and gestural various writing deals before moving to Sony Tree in 1992. Having written a string of critically acclaimed hits, Peters received her number 1 Grammy nomination for Song of the Year in 1995 for "Independence Day" (recorded by McBride), her potent hymn about a women world Health Organization fights back against an opprobrious married man. In the Country Music Awards that class, the song took home the same award, as well as a CMA Video of the Year in 1994. She was nominated again for a Song of the Year Grammy in 1996 with the Loveless chart-topper "You Don't Even Know Who I Am." Peters' oscilloscope wasn't circumscribed to the nation music arena, as she demonstrated by co-writing "Rock-and-roll Steady" with rock artist Bryan Adams -- a song that appeared on Bonnie Raitt's Road Tested. Peters released her debut album, The Secret of Life, on Imprint Records in 1996. Her self-titled sophomore crusade was issued five-spot years afterwards. The impressive Burned Toast & Offerings appeared in 2007.
