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DARRYL WORLEY
Two years ago Darryl Worley considered himself an unknown on the country music scene. But when the six-foot-six performer excused himself at a music-industry banquet at Nashville's Opryland Hotel to visit the men's room, he was stunned to hear fans in the lobby calling his name and asking him to stop and talk.
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TOBY KEITH
Asked how he's managed to maintain his superstar status for so long, Toby Keith – 2001 CMA Male Vocalist Of The Year – says simply: "I've just been doing the same things I've always done; it's my surroundings that have changed. I've got a record company that gives me the freedom to do what I want, and the industry has accepted what I do. Because of that, in a very real sense, I've been liberated."
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JESSICA ANDREWS
"I think people are going to be surprised when they hear this record," says Jessica Andrews of her third album, Now. "I feel like it represents a whole new me." In fact, 19-year-old Jessica has come a long way in a short time. Since launching her career with 1999's Heart Shaped World and achieving a major chart breakthrough with 2001's Who I Am, the big-voiced Tennessee native has emerged as one of country music's brightest stars. In that space of time, she also won the Academy Of Country Music's Top New Female Vocalist award, scored her first #1 single, with "Who I Am,"
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EMERSON DRIVE
A work ethic the size of Mt. Everest goes a long way toward explaining the success of Emerson Drive, an outfit that got its start in the western Alberta town of Grande-Prairie. Nothing will make or break a band like the road, and few have been forged in that crucible as fully as Emerson Drive.
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CHALEE TENNISON
It's not simply that Chalee Tennison is a world-class country singer. Nor is it merely that she's a gifted songwriter. The power of this artist is based on something much more – her charisma is founded on her honesty. In a world of manufactured images, Chalee (pronounced Shuh-LEE) Tennison is the real deal.
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ROXIE DEAN
She's the kind of girl bartenders notice and talk to, and not just to bump up their tips. She's not afraid to savor the tastes, seek the thrills, live life and tell what she's seen. She's Roxie Dean, a pressure-packed jar of Louisiana sunshine, and after a lifelong love affair with country music – as well as stints tending a farm, selling boots, coordinating events and writing hits for Lee Ann Womack, Jamie O'Neal and Tracy Lawrence – she's ready to stake her claim.
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SCOTTY EMERICK
Scotty Emerick was raised in Vero Beach, Fla., with one bare foot in the ocean to the east and one bare foot on the edge of a lake to the west. "It was probably the best of all worlds, an all-American barefoot-boy kind of life," he says. "I was outside all the time. I could be at the beach in five minutes, and in the other direction, freshwater fishing was just 10 or 15 minutes away. I guess that makes me a redneck beach bum!"
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JIMMY WAYNE
Country, they say, comes from real life; the richer that life, the more the singer can draw from the well. If that's true, then it's an ocean of hard times and triumph that feeds the music of this young man. Jimmy Wayne has weathered emotional abuse and real violence. He has worked (as a child) to earn money for his mother while she was in prison. He has lived in the open and subsisted on his wits in order to eat from day to day.
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