Shannon Leigh Brown (born July 23, 1973) is an American
country music
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singer from
Spirit Lake, Iowa
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The town is located along the western shore of East Okoboji Lake, in the Iowa Great Lakes re ...
. Although she has recorded three albums on various labels, only one of these – 2006's ''
Corn Fed'' — was released. In her career, she has charted four singles on the ''
Billboard
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'' country charts, with her highest-charting single being a 2002 cover of
Deborah Allen
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's "Baby I Lied," at number 40. She also contributed the song "Half a Man" to the soundtrack for the 1998 film ''
Happy, Texas
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Toponymy
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''.
Biography
After several years of touring the Midwest with her father running the soundboard and her mom running lights, Shannon decided to make the move to
Nashville, Tennessee
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. She paid the bills singing songwriters' demo sessions and managed to maintain her touring schedule of 160 dates a year. Her vocal stylings and industrious approach did not go unnoticed. She is married to video director
Shaun Silva
Shaun Silva is a music video director who works primarily in the country music field. He has directed a number of music videos for many country music artists, including many of Kenny Chesney's music videos. His other clients include Jason Aldean, ...
who directed the video for "Corn Fed."
Musical career
Shannon's first recording contract was with
Arista Nashville
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in 1997. A year later, she began work on her debut album ''A Tour of My Heart''. Although the album's lead-off single (titled "I Won't Lie") entered the ''
Billboard
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'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now
Hot Country Songs
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This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ...
) charts, ''A Tour of My Heart'' was ultimately unreleased. Brown also contributed the song "Half a Man" to the soundtrack of the film ''
Happy, Texas
Happy is a town in Randall and Swisher Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 678 at the 2010 census. The Randall County portion of Happy is part of the Amarillo, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Toponymy
Happy derives i ...
'' in 1998
In late 2001, she left for the
BNA label. While on BNA, she began work on a second album, from which two singles were released. The first of these, a song titled "Baby I Lied," was a cover of
Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen (born Deborah Lynn Thurmond on September 30, 1953) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. She recorded the 1 ...
's Top 5 hit single from 1983. Brown's cover became her only Top 40 hit upon its release. A second single from her BNA album, titled "Untangle My Heart," also charted. Brown's second album also remained unreleased, however, and she exited BNA not long afterward.
Warner Bros. Records
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signed Brown to her third recording contract in late 2005. That year, she made her fourth chart entry with the song "Corn Fed." Reaching a peak of 47 on the country music charts, it served as the lead-off single to her first album for Warner Bros., also titled ''
Corn Fed''. Her third album overall, ''Corn Fed'' was also Brown's first album to be released commercially. The album was produced by
John Rich, one half of country music duo
Big & Rich
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. After its second single, "Pearls," failed to chart, Brown and Warner Bros. parted ways.
Discography
Albums
Singles
;Notes
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^ "I Won't Lie" also peaked at number 67 on the ''
RPM
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Standards
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'' Country Tracks chart in Canada.
Music videos
External links
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1973 births
American country singer-songwriters
American women country singers
Living people
BNA Records artists
Warner Records artists
Arista Nashville artists
People from Spirit Lake, Iowa
Country musicians from Iowa
21st-century American women singers
Singer-songwriters from Iowa