| Terri Clark Facts | |
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| Birth name: | Terri Lynne Sauson |
| Birthdate: | Aug. 5, 1968 |
| Birth place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Raised: | Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada |
| Hair color: | Dark Brown |
| Eye color: | Hazel |
| Height: | 5 ft. 11 1/2 in. |
| Instruments played: | Guitar, Cowbell |
| Label: | Mercury |
| Tattoo: | In 2001, Terri had the maple leaf from the Canadian flag tattooed onto her right shoulder |
| Marital status: | divorced musician Ted Stevenson in 1996 after six years of marriage; she's currently single. |
| Deep are the roots: | Teri's maternal grandparents, Ray and Betty Gauthier, were performerso n the Canadian country music circuit and opened shows for Johnny Cash, George Jones, Little Jimmy Dickens and others. "They ritired from performing before I was born," she recalls, "but I used to go over to these jam sessions at their house. They'd sing and play guitar with all their musical friends, and I'd just watch for hours." |
| Musical influences: | Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Barbara Mandrell, Reba McEntire, The Judds. |
| Previous jobs: | dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant, waitress, secretary at a carpet-cleaning company, boot seller and house singer at Nashville's legendary Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. |
| Early days in Nashville: | "I was a little chunky back then," says Terri, who moved to Music City in 1987. "I had bigger hair and used to wear these long untucked shirts with pants and cowboy boots. I would tuck my pants into my cowboy boots and wear a scarf like Patsy Cline. I used to traipse from the bus stop to Tootsie's Lounge with my guitar wrapped around my wrist with a shoestring to keep someone from stealing it. That was me." |
| Favorite albums: | Surfacing by Sara McLachlan, Happy? by Jann Arden, Why Not Me by The Judds, Absolute Torch and Twang by k.d. lang, Yourself Or Someone Like You by matchbox twenty. |
| Favorite movie: | Shrek |
| Favorite actor: | Matthew McConaughey |
| Favorite TV show: | Six Feet Under |
| Favorite foods: | Pizza Hut pan pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms and cheese; prime rib; french fries and gravy; chocolate covered almonds. |
| Her take on life: | "I generally like to have fun. I always laugh at myself. We're human beings; we're funny. God had a sense of humor, that's why he created us." |
| Gold album: | How I Feel (1998) |
| Platinum albums: | Terri Clark (1995), Just The Same (1996) |
| Billboard Top 10 singles: |
"Better Things To Do" (No. 3, 1995) "When Boy Meets Girl" (No. 3, 1995) "If I Were You" (No. 8, 1996) "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" (No. 5, 1996) "Emotional Girl" (No. 10, 1997) "Now That I Found You" (No. 2, 1998) "You're Easy On The Eyes" (No. 1, 1998) "I Just Wanna Be Mad" (No. 2, 2003) "I Wanna Do It All" (No. 3, 2004)
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