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Karen Staley

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Origin
  
Nashville, Tennessee

Occupation(s)
  
Singer-songwriter

Years active
  
1984-present

Genre
  
Country music

Genres
  
Country

Instruments
  
Vocals

Labels
  
MCA Warner Bros.

Albums
  
Fearless

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Education
  
West Virginia Wesleyan College

Awards
  
Academy of Country Music Award for Song of the Year

Similar
  
Tracy Byrd, Dickey Lee, Bob DiPiero, Bob Regan, Pam Tillis

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Karen Staley (born in Weirton, West Virginia) is an American country music singer-songwriter.

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Staley was raised in Georgetown, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and was inspired to write songs after reading through the hymnals at her local church. She continued to do so while at West Virginia Wesleyan College. She took a job at a children's home, before moving to Los Angeles, California to sign with a contemporary Christian music label which went out of business before she could release anything.

After winning a talent competition put on by the Wheeling Jamboree, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she wrote three songs on Patty Loveless's self-titled debut album. She signed to MCA Records in 1989, releasing the album Wildest Dreams, which produced two low-charting singles.

In the mid-late 1990s, Staley wrote "The Keeper of the Stars" for Tracy Byrd, and "Take Me as I Am" and "Let's Go to Vegas" for Faith Hill. She released Fearless in 1998 for Warner Bros. Records.

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Songs

Somebody's ChildFearless · 2005
Cross The BattlelineFearless · 2005
God Is In ControlFearless · 2005

References

Karen Staley Wikipedia