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• Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

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• There’s a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

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• The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

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• Our live show is a definite experience, since it’s an extension of my albums.

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• Once you get away from where you’re from, you look at it in a different way.

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• No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

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• Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn’t right for me. They’re afraid to step outside the box – even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

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• My relationship different with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

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• My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

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• It’s my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.

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• I’ve been in LA for 5 years now, and it’s been very freeing creatively.

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• I’m sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

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• I’m a big fan of ’70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

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• I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me – either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

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• I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket – to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

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• I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

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• I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It’s all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

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• I never listened to country music growing up.

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• I never excluded any genre on my first record.

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• But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

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Deana Carter (21)

Birth:	4th January, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Singer, Songwriter

About

Deana Kay Carter was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She is an American singer, songwriter and country music artist who broke through in 1996 with the release of debut album Did I Shave My Legs for This?, which was certified 5× Multi-Platinum in the United States for sales of over five million. She was ranked No. 81 on the 100 Greatest Women by Country Universe in 2008.

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