Sara Lynn Evans (born February 5, 1971, in Boonville, Missouri) is a country music singer.

Biography

Sara Lynn Evans was raised on a farm near New Franklin, Missouri as the oldest girl amongst seven children. Music has always been a part of her life and by age five was singing every weekend in her family's band. When she was sixteen, she began performing at a nightclub near Columbia, Missouri, a gig that lasted two years.

She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1991 with the goal of becoming a country artist. That year she met Craig Schelske there and a year later moved to Oregon. They were involved both professionally and personally. Craig and Sara were married in 1993 and they returned to Nashville in 1995. Sara began recording demos. Songwriter Harlan Howard heard Sara's demo of one of his songs and decided she should be the one to sing his music. She went under contract with RCA.

Evans was the most nominated artist at the 2001 Country Music Association awards, and won her fist CMA award when her song “Born to Fly” won the award for Video of the Year.

In 2005, Sara Evans struck gold with the country ballad A Real Fine Place to Start. With help from this single her album Real Fine Place was propelled to No.1 on the top of the charts with over 130,000 copies sold in the first week. The single from the album stood on top of the Billboard and Radio and Record Charts for an two weeks. Evans was nominated for two CMA awards, including the prestigious "Female Vocalist of the Year" and prized "Musical Event of the Year" (the latter in part due to her duet with Brad Paisley, "New Again"). Sara went on the road with Brad Paisley and newcomers Sugarland on Brad's "Time Well Wasted Tour".

As of 2005 she has three children, Avery, Olivia and Audrey. Evans filled in for LeAnn Rimes on the TV show Nashville Star.

Discography

Albums

• Real Fine Place (RCA, 2005) - October 4, 2005, US #3
• Restless (RCA/BMG, 2003) - RIAA Certified Platinum, US #20
• Born To Fly (RCA, 2000) - RIAA Certified Double Platinum, US #55
• No Place That Far (RCA Nashville, 1998) - RIAA Certified Gold, US #116
• Three Chords and the Truth (RCA Nashville, 1997)

Singles

• Three Chords and the Truth (1997) Country #44
• Shame About That (1997) Country #48
• True Lies (1997) Country #59
• Cryin' Game (1998) Country #56
• No Place That Far (1998) US Hot 100 #37, Country #1(1)
• Fool, I'm A Woman (1998) Country #32
• Born to Fly (2000) US Hot 100 #35, Country #1(1)
• I Could Not Ask for More (2001) US Hot 100 #35, Country #2
• Saints And Angels (2001) Country #16
• I Keep Looking (2002) US Hot 100 #35, Country #5
• Backseat Of A Greyhound Bus (2003) Country #16
• Perfect (2004) US Hot 100 #46, Country #2
• Tonight (2004) Country #41

Music Videos

The Cryin' Game (Watch)

No Place That Far (Watch)

Born To Fly (Watch)

Saints And Angels (Watch)

I Could Not Ask For More (Watch)

Perfect (Watch)

Suds In The Bucket (Watch)

A Real Fine Place To Start (Watch)

Cheatin' (Watch)

Resources

• "Biography Sara Evans". Country Music Television. Retrieved Sep. 23, 2004.
• "Sara Evans: Timeline". Sara-Online.Net Timeline. Retrieved Oct. 4, 2005.
• "Sara Evans: Topping the Charts". Sara Evans @ Sara-Online.Net. Retrieved Oct. 4, 2005.fi:Sara Evans