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Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for Teresa.

People with the name Terri include:

• Terri Allard, an American country/folk singer/songwriter
• Terri Blackstock, a Christian fiction writer
• Terri Brosius, an American musician and voice actor
• Terri Lyne Carrington, a jazz drummer, composer, and record producer
• Terri Clark, a Canadian country music artist
• Terri Colombino, an American actress
• Terri Lynn Doss, an American model and actress
• Terri Dwyer, an English actress
• Terri-Rae Elmer, a radio news announcer
• Terri Farley, an American writer
• Terri Fields, an American book writer and teacher
• Terri Garber, an American actress
• Terri Gibbs, a Grammy Award-nominated American country music artist
• Terri Hardin, a Muppet puppeter, actress and stand-up comedienne
• Terri Hawkes, a Canadian actress
• Terri Hendrix, contemporary folk singer-songwriter from Texas
• Terri Irwin, an Australian, American-born naturalist, author, and owner of Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia
• Terri Ivens, an American actress
• Terri Jentz, an American writer
• Terri Kimball, an American model and Playmate of the Month
• Texas Terri (formerly Terri Laird), a punk rock singer and songwriter from Texas
• Terri Lynn Land, a Michigan Secretary of State
• Terri McCormick, a Wisconsin State Representative
• Terri Minsky, an American television writer and producer
• Terri Nunn, an American singer and actress
• Terri O'Connell, a former motorsports racing champion
• Terri Poch, an American bodybuilder and former professional wrestler
• Terri Psiakis, an Australian comedienne and a presenter on radio and television
• Terri Rogers, a transsexual English ventriloquist and magician
• Terri Runnels, a former World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation professional wrestling manager, television host and occasional wrestler
• Terri Schiavo, diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for several years
• Terri Seymour, a British television presenter
• Terri Treas, an American actress, writer and director
• Terri Utley, a beauty queen and motivational speaker
• Terri J. Vaughn, an American film and television actress
• Terri Walker, an English R&B and soul singer-songwriter
• Terri Sue Webb, an activist
• Terri Welles, an American actress and adult model
• Terri Windling, an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults

Fictional characters[link]

• Terri Alden, Three's Company
• Terri Johnstone, River City
• Terri McGreggor, Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Terri Schuester, Glee
• Terri Stivers, Homicide: Life on the Street
• Terri Webber, General Hospital
• Sherri and Terri, The Simpsons

People with the last name Terri[link]

• Jan Terri, a former musician from Chicago
• Salli Terri, a singer, arranger, recording artist, and songwriter

See also[link]

• Teri (given name)

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Janice Spagnolia,^[2] known most commonly by her stage name Jan Terri, is a musician from Chicago, Illinois. She recorded two albums, Baby Blues^[3] in 1993 and High Risk^[4]. Terri graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 1983 with a degree in broadcast communications and arts and entertainment management.

Rock musician Marilyn Manson had Terri perform at one of his parties, and Terri had opened for some of his concerts. Some footage of her can be viewed in Manson's God is in the TV collection.^[5] In 2000, Terri appeared on The Daily Show.

Terri took a hiatus from recording in 2000 to care for her mother. In December of 2011 Terri released her first single in over a decade, with an accompanying video titled "Excuse My Christmas". The single appears on the forthcoming album "Wild One".^[6]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Daily Show Appearance
• Jammed Online's article about Jan Terri
• Chicago Reader Blogs
• Losin' You (music video)

Terri Clark
Terri Clark performing at the Western Idaho Fair in Boise, Idaho on August 22, 2006
Background information
Birth name	Terri Lynn Sauson
Born	(1968-08-05) August 5, 1968 (age 43) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Origin	Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Genres	Country
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, Guitar
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Mercury Nashville, BNA, BareTrack/Capitol Nashville/EMI Canada
Associated acts	Tom Shapiro
Website	Terri Clark Official Website

Terri Lynn Sauson (born August 5, 1968), known professionally as Terri Clark, is a Canadian country music artist who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995, she released her self-titled debut that year. Both it and its two follow-ups, 1996's Just the Same and 1998's How I Feel, were certified platinum in both countries, and produced several Top Ten country hits.

Her fourth album, 2000's Fearless, though certified gold in Canada, was not as successful in the U.S., producing no Top 10 hits. Pain to Kill from 2003 restored her chart momentum in the U.S. with "I Just Wanna Be Mad" and "I Wanna Do It All", while a 2004 greatest hits album produced the Number One "Girls Lie Too". A non-album single, "The World Needs a Drink", and the 2005 album Life Goes On were her last releases for Mercury before she signed to BNA Records in 2007. There, she released the singles "Dirty Girl" and "In My Next Life". Although the latter went to Number One in Canada, she has not released an album for BNA.

Clark's albums have accounted for more than twenty singles, including six Number Ones. "If I Were You", "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Emotional Girl" and "In My Next Life" all topped the country charts in Canada, "Girls Lie Too" reached Number One only in the U.S., and "You're Easy on the Eyes" was a Number One in both countries.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Terri Clark was born on August 5, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Clark's family eventually settled in Medicine Hat, Alberta, where she was raised. Clark's grandparents, Ray and Betty Gauthier, were both noted Canadian country musicians, having opened artists such as George Jones and Johnny Cash.^[1] Clark's mother, Linda, had belonged to the Canadian folk scene. Her parents divorced when she was young and her mother re-married. Clark's last name was taken from the man whom her mother had married.

By high school, Clark had grown to love country music and worked at a local Chinese restaurant to save money to move to Nashville, Tennessee.^[1] In 1987, after graduating high school at Crescent Heights High School in Medicine Hat Alberta, she moved from there to Nashville, where she got her start playing at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a honky-tonk bar across the alley from the Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. At the time, country music executives were interested in traditional country, but record producer and singer Keith Stegall gave her advice to not give up.^[1] Then in 1994, Stegall became an executive at PolyGram/Mercury Records in Nashville and signed Clark to a record deal.^[1]

1995–1999: Breakthrough success[link]

In 1995, Clark issued her first single, "Better Things to Do." The song managed to reach the top five in both the United States and Canada. Her debut album, Terri Clark, followed shortly after. Clark had a hand in writing or co-writing 11 of the album's 12 tracks. Terri Clark also featured the singles "When Boy Meets Girl," "If I Were You," and "Suddenly Single." "If I Were You" became Clark's first No. 1 in Canada in June 1996. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in the United States on April 5, 1996 and Platinum on July 29, 1997.

In 1996, Clark's second studio album, Just the Same, was issued following the album's first single, "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," a cover of the 1976 Warren Zevon song. The song and its second single, "Emotional Girl," reached number one in Canada with both songs reaching the top ten in the United States. During late 1996, Clark was awarded Single of the Year for "Better Things to Do" and Album of the Year for Terri Clark by the Canadian Country Music Association. By 1997 she would also be awarded the Fans' Choice Award, an award she would win six more times between 2001 and 2007, and Female Artist of the Year, and award she would also claim in 2004 and 2005.

In March 1998, Clark visited Calgary, Alberta, Canada to film her first television special, Terri Clark: Coming Home, which premiered March 27 on CBC in Canada.^[2] During the special Clark was visited by Canadian country singers Paul Brandt and George Fox.^[2]

Clark's third studio album, How I Feel, was issued in May 1998. The album's lead single, "Now That I Found You," reached the top five in both the United States and Canada. It was the album's second single, "You're Easy on the Eyes," that gave Clark's first American No. 1, the song also reached No. 1 in Canada. "You're Easy on the Eyes" became a minor Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. To promote the new album, Clark was added as the opening act for Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn 1998 tour.^[3]

2000–2004: Continued success[link]

Fearless, Clark's fourth studio album, was issued in September 2000. During the album's production, Clark started writing more personal songs with a new team of co-writers and hired a new producer to deliver a set of songs with a more acoustic feel than that of her previous work.^[4] The album's first single, "A Little Gasoline", was a late addition to the album because Mercury executives felt Clark needed to balance her new material with something that had a more familiar feel to it.^[4] The song reached the top ten in Canada, however, only reaching #13 in the United States.

On May 2, 2001, Clark was pulled over by police for speeding in Nashville. The officer, who pulled Clark over, had suspected that she had consumed alcohol and asked her to do sobriety test, after which Clark refused and was charged with a DUI and implied consent.^[5] Clark later apologized for the incident through a statement that was issued to press by her publicist.^[5] In August, Clark pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving and was fined $350 plus court costs, placed on six months' supervised probation and ordered to take an alcohol education course.^[6]

After a management change in December 2001, Clark began work on her fifth studio album, Pain to Kill. The album was issued in January 2003, followed after the release of the album's first single, "I Just Wanna Be Mad". The song, written by Kelley Lovelace and Lee Thomas Miller, was initially intended to be recorded by Sara Evans, who passed on it.^[7] When released as a single the song became Clark's highest charting single in the United States since 1998's "You're Easy on the Eyes" and is to date Clark's highest appearance on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #27. The album marked the first time Clark had worked with producer Byron Gallimore, who produced the first half of the album.^[8] The other half was produced by Clark's longtime producer Keith Stegall, who was brought in when Gallimore became unavailable.^[8]

In early 2004, Clark was approached by Playboy Magazine, to pose nude for the magazine's upcoming May issue.^[9] Clark, who came in second place behind fellow Canadian country singer Shania Twain in a poll in the previous year, turned down the offer saying "I think of all the young girls who come to my shows, I think of those faces, I think of my mother, and I worry about the signal [sex] sends to them[…]."^[9]

On May 15, 2004 during a performance of the Grand Ole Opry, Clark was surprised by Steve Wariner and her mother Linda with an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry. Clark was officially inducted on June 12, 2004 and is currently the only female Canadian member of the Grand Ole Opry. Shortly after her induction, Clark's first greatest hits album, Greatest Hits 1994–2004, was issued. The album's only single, "Girls Lie Too", became Clark's first number one in the United States since 1998's "You're Easy on the Eyes". While the song did not reach number one in Canada, it was the named number one country song of 2004 in Canada by Radio & Records. A non-album single, "The World Needs a Drink", was released in late 2004, but was not included on any of Clark's studio albums.

2005 – present: Label changes, new album[link]

In 2005, Clark's sixth studio album, Life Goes On, was issued in November. The album's first single, "She Didn't Have Time", only managed to reach #25 in the United States and #15 in Canada. None of the album's other singles charted in the United States and Clark parted ways with Mercury Records in March 2006.

In June 2006, Clark signed with BNA Records, a division of Sony BMG label group, now known as Sony Music Entertainment. Clark's first single for the label, "Dirty Girl", was issued in early 2007. The song was then followed by "In My Next Life", which was to be the title track to her debut BNA release. Clark, along with Canadian country band Emerson Drive, opened for Big & Rich in Canada, hoping to promote the new album.^[10] My Next Life was delayed several times and remained unreleased leaving Clark to part ways with BNA in November 2008, so she could concentrate more on her career in Canada and possibly launch her own record label.^[11]

Clark released a live album, Terri Clark Live: Road Rage, via Clark's own BareTrack Records label in July 2009 through digital retailers. Clark's seventh studio album, The Long Way Home, was released shortly after to all retailers in Canada and digital retailers in the United States on September 1, 2009 via BareTrack/Capitol Nashville/EMI Canada. The album was released to non-digital retailers in the United States on October 20, 2009.

The first single issued from the album was "Gypsy Boots", a song previously recorded for Clark's unreleased My Next Life album. The single was released to country radio in Canada on June 22, 2009 and country radio in the United States on July 20. The video for "Gypsy Boots," directed by Margaret Malandruccolo, was released in Canada on August 6, 2009 and is available for online viewing at Clark's site. "If You Want Fire", "A Million Ways To Run" and "You Tell Me" have been issued as follow up singles in Canada.

Clark released her eighth studio album, Roots and Wings, on July 26, 2011. It includes "Smile", a song she wrote for her mom after her death due to a long battle with cancer. The album's lead off single, "Northern Girl", was released on April 18.

Personal life[link]

Clark was previously married to fiddle player Ted Stevenson in 1991. The couple filed for divorce in 1996. Nine years later, Clark married her tour manager Greg Kaczor on September 17, 2005. The couple's wedding was documented on In the Moment, a TV series broadcast on CMT in December 2005.^[12] The couple filed for divorce on February 16, 2007.

In late 2007, Clark received news that her mother was diagnosed with cancer. The tumor was removed; however, Clark's mother passed away on April 4, 2010.

Terri Clark currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Discography[link]

• 1995: Terri Clark
• 1996: Just the Same
• 1998: How I Feel
• 2000: Fearless
• 2003: Pain to Kill
• 2005: Life Goes On
• 2009: The Long Way Home
• 2011: Roots and Wings

References[link]

External links[link]

• Terri Clark Official Website

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Terri Lyne Carrington
Background information
Born	(1965-08-04) August 4, 1965 (age 46)
Origin	Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, R&B
Occupations	Drummer, singer, songwriter, record producer
Years active	1983–present
Labels	Concord Jazz, E1 Entertainment, Video Arts Music, Verve Forecast, ACT, GrooveJazz Media
Website	http://www.terrilynecarrington.com/

Terri Lyne Carrington (born 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a Grammy-Award winning jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more. For example, she has toured with each of Hancock's musical configurations (from electric to acoustic) between 1997 and 2007.

In 2007 she was appointed professor at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music, where she received an honorary doctorate in 2003.

Carrington also serves as Artistic Director of the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival.

Childhood[link]

At 7, Carrington was given a set of drums which had belonged to her grandfather, Matt Carrington, who had played with Fats Waller and Chuck Berry. After studying privately for three years, she played her first major performance at the Wichita Jazz Festival with Clark Terry. At age 11 she received a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music. At 12 years old she was profiled on the PBS kids' biography program Rebop.

At Berklee College of Music she played with leading musicians such as Kevin Eubanks, Donald Harrison, Greg Osby and others. She also studied under master drum instructor Alan Dawson and made a private recording entitled, TLC and Friends, with Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, George Coleman and her father, Sonny Carrington, before turning 17.

Throughout high school she traveled across the country doing clinics at various schools and colleges.

Professional career[link]

In 1983, encouraged by her mentor, Jack DeJohnette, Carrington moved to New York, where she worked with Stan Getz, James Moody, Lester Bowie, Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, David Sanborn, and others.

In the late 1980s she relocated to Los Angeles, where she gained recognition on late night TV as the house drummer for "The Arsenio Hall Show", then again in the late 1990s as the drummer on the late night TV show "VIBE", hosted by Sinbad. In 1996 she collaborated with Peabo Bryson on "Always Reach For Your Dreams," a song commissioned for the 1996 Olympic Games.

Terri Lyne Carrington and Herbie Hancock

Bandleader[link]

Notably, in recent years, she has included Esperanza Spalding, Geri Allen, Helen Sung, James Genus, Bob Hurst, Patrice Rushen, Tineke Postma, Ingrid Jensen, Nona Hendryx, Chihiro, Everette Harp, Greg Phillinganes, Lori Perry, Robert Irving III, Dwight Sills, Lawrence Fields, Randy Runyon, Gary Thomas, Aruan Ortiz, and Munyungo Jackson in her band configurations. In Summer 2011, she appeared with Wayne Shorter (with John Pattituci and Danilo Perez) in South America, and is the Musical Director of the international "Sing The Truth" Tour ... featuring Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo (with Romero Lubambo, Geri Allen, James Genus and Munyungo Jackson).^{[citation needed]}

Recording artist[link]

As a recording artist, in 1988 Carrington started concentrating her efforts on writing and producing her own works ... resulting in Real Life Story, her 1989 Grammy-nominated debut CD featuring Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington, Jr., Gerald Albright, John Scofield, Hiram Bullock, Patrice Rushen, Greg Osby, and Dianne Reeves, Jazz is a Spirit, her 2002 European CD featuring Herbie Hancock, Wallace Roney, Terence Blanchard, Kevin Eubanks and Gary Thomas, and Structure, her 2004 European CD with Jimmy Haslip, Greg Osby and Adam Rogers. Also, after a 20 year hiatus from U.S. recording, Carrington released the 2009 CD More to Say ... Real Life Story: NextGen, a sequel to her 1989 debut "Real Life Story" CD. The album features Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, George Duke, Kirk Whalum, Everette Harp, Christian McBride, Jimmy Haslip, Greg Phillinganes, Robert Irving III, Patrice Rushen, Chuck Loeb, Walter Beasley, Anthony Wilson, Lawrence Fields, Ray Fuller, Dwight Sills, Lori Perry and Chris Walker, with a special appearance by Sonny Carrington.^[1] Most of the 15 tracks on the CD are written or co-written by Carrington. In 2011 The Mosaic Project, her fifth album overall and her first on Concord Jazz, which featured a number of singers, was released in 2011. It won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album.^[2]

Entrepreneur[link]

As an entrepreneur, Carrington is a partner in Hebert-Carrington Media (HCM). Founded in 2007 and based in Atlanta, Boston, New Jersey, Washington, DC, Chicago, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, HCM's^[3] origins can be traced to the long-term relationships with company co-founder Robert A. Hebert, Esq., high-tech entrepreneurs Frank White, Jr. and Dr. Bernard Yaged, and top media and communications advisor Don Lucoff of DL Media. HCM has relationships with Concord Music, E1 Entertainment, Pony Canyon (Japan), Video Arts Music (Japan), Herbie Hancock, Toninho Horta, Oscar Castro-Neves, Arthur Maia, Romero Lubambo, Robert Irving III, Mitchel Forman, Helen Sung, Darryl Jones, and Vince Wilburn/Miles Davis Properties.

Partial discography[link]

• Real Life Story (1989)
• Jazz is a Spirit (2002)
• Structure (2004)
• More to Say (2009)
• The Mosaic Project (2011)

As drummer

• Herbie Hancock : Gershwin's World
• Rufus Reid : Seven Minds
• Mulgrew Miller : Work, Chapters 1 & 2: Keys to the City
• Michele Rosewoman : Quintessense
• Dianne Reeves : I Remember, Art & Survival, Quiet After The Storm, That Day
• Niels Lans Doky : Daybreak
• Doky Brothers : Doky Brothers, Vol 1 & 2
• John Scofield : Flat Out, Liquid Fire
• Cassandra Wilson : Blue Skies
• Rachel Z : Room Of One's Own
• Wayne Shorter : Joy Ryder, High Life
• Patrice Rushen : Anything But Ordinary
• John Patitucci : Sketchbook
• Eric Marienthal : Crossroads
• John Beasley : Change of Heart
• Nino Tempo : Live At Cicada
• Michael Wolff : 2 AM
• James Moody : Moody's Birthday Celebration, Live At The Blue Note, Moody Plays Mancini
• Esperanza Spalding : Radio Music Society

References[link]

External links[link]

• Terri Lyne Carrington website

Dean Brody (born August 12, 1975) is a Canadian country music artist. Signed to Broken Bow Records in 2008, Brody made his debut later that year with the single "Brothers". This song, a Top 40 country hit in both Canada and the US, is the first single from his debut album, released in 2009 under the production of Matt Rovey.

Biography[link]

Dean Brody was born in Smithers, British Columbia and grew up in Jaffray, British Columbia. As a boy, Brody worked at a sawmill, also playing guitar in his spare time. By 2004, he had moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue his musical career. Although he found a songwriting contract, the expiration of his US work permit forced him to move back to Canada. Eventually, he returned to Nashville through the suggestion of producer Keith Stegall, who helped him sign with Broken Bow Records in 2008.^[3] Brody released his debut single, "Brothers", late that year. Shortly before its release, Brody was injured in a waterskiing accident on the Potomac River and had to undergo extensive reconstructive surgery.^[4][5] He lives with his wife Iris in Chester, Nova Scotia.^[4][6]

Music career[link]

[edit] Dean Brody

Brody's self-titled debut album was released in the United States on April 28, 2009, via the independent label Broken Bow Records. The album debuted at number 32 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and was released in Canada on May 12, 2009. "Brothers" peaked at number 26 in the US. "Dirt Road Scholar" and "Undone" were both released in Canada and "Gravity" in the United States.

[edit] Trail in Life

The first single from Brody's second album, "Wildflower," was released in April 2010. A second single, "Roll That Barrel Out," was released in July 2010. The album, Trail in Life, was released by Open Road Recordings in August 2010. Other singles included the title track, "People Know You by Your First Name" and "Little Yellow Blanket."

[edit] Dirt

Brody's third studio album, Dirt, was released by Open Road Recordings on April 24, 2012. Its first single, "Canadian Girls," became Brody's first song to reach the top 40 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Singles[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]