Brenda Best is a North American singer-songwriter.
Biography
Born and raised in
Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada. Since 1999, she has been living in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a singer/songwriter and entertainer with a residency show at The Nashville Nightlife Theatre since 2001 ''The Best of Country''. In 2011,
American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...
(ASCAP) awarded her with an ASCAP Award for songwriting. She is a four-time NIMA Awards recipient (Nashville Independent Music Awards). In 2015, she was Inducted into the New Brunswick Country Music Hall of Fame (NBCMHOF). In 2018 she was a guest speaker at The Summer NAMM show held in Nashville, TN (Success Secrets For Independent Songwriters And Artists),
She is a member of the
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre. The objectives of the organization are to guide and enha ...
(CMA), the
Gospel Music Association (GMA),
Nashville Songwriters Association International
The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) is a 501(c) not-for-profit trade organization that works to help songwriters in three ways: through legislative advocacy, through education and advice about the actual craft of songwrit ...
(NSAI), and she is a
Grammy Awards voting member with
The Recording Academy since 2013.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian women singer-songwriters
Canadian women country singers
Musicians from Campbellton, New Brunswick
Canadian country singer-songwriters
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