Sherrié Austin

Sherrié Austin

Sherrié Austin (* 28. August 1970 in Sydney ; bourgeois: Sherrié Veronica Krenn ) is an Australian Country - singer , songwriter and actress . Her highest ranked title to date, Streets of Heaven , reached number 18 on the Billboard Country Charts in 2003 .

Life

Influenced by Johnny Cash , Sherrié Austin has been an active songwriter and singer since she was 14. She first worked in Australia with Phil Radford in the Duo Colorhaus . Then she moved to the United States . There she gained a certain fame through her participation in the TV series The Facts of Life in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s she went to Nashville , Tennessee and released her first solo album in 1997, entitled Words . The two singles Lucky In Love and Put Your Heart Into It , which were extracted from the album, reached number 34 on the C&W charts in 1997 and 1998, respectively. In 1999 she reached number 29 with the title Never Been Kissed from the album Love In The Real World . With the title song Streets Of Heaven from the album of the same name, she reached number 18 in the C&W charts in 2003.

Since 2005 she has increasingly appeared as a songwriter for other artists. She wrote Shotgun Rider (2007) for Tim McGraw , Where Have I Been All My Life (2009) for George Strait , If I was a Woman (2011) for Trace Adkins and Strong Shot of You (2014) for Jo Dee Messina .

Her last album to date was released in 2011 in a small edition under the title Circus Girl on her own label, which bears the same name.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1997	Words	-	Country41 (44 weeks) Country	Arista
1999	Love in the Real World	US150 (3 weeks) US	Country14 (28 weeks) Country	Arista
2001	Followin 'a Feelin'	-	Country43 (9 weeks) Country	Madacy Entertainment
2003	Streets of Heaven	US144 (1 week) US	Country22 (22 weeks) Country	Broken Bow Records

More albums

• 1992: Water to the Soul (with Colorhaus, Interscope Records )
• 2011: Circus Girl (Circus Girl)

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1992	Innocent Child Water to the Soul	US50 (10 weeks) US	-	with Colourhaus
1997	Lucky in Love Words	-	Country34 (20 weeks) Country
	One Solitary Tear Words	-	Country41 (15 weeks) Country
1998	Put Your Heart into It Words	-	Country34 (16 weeks) Country
	Innocent Man Words	-	Country74 (1 week) Country
1999	Never Been Kissed Love in the Real World	US89 (10 weeks) US	Country29 (20 weeks) Country
	Little Bird Love in the Real World	-	Country49 (8 weeks) Country
2001	Jolene Followin 'a Feelin'	-	Country55 (3 weeks) Country
2003	Streets Of Heaven Streets Of Heaven	-	Country18 (26 weeks) Country
2004	Drivin 'into the Sun Streets Of Heaven	-	Country50 (6 weeks) Country
	Son of a Preacher Man Streets Of Heaven	-	Country46 (11 weeks) Country

More singles

• 1992: Moving Mountains (with Colourhaus)
• 1998: Tenderly
• 2001: Time, Love and Money
• 2001: In the Meantime

Filmography

• The Facts of Life (1987–1988) (TV)
• Call From Space (1989)
• Open House (1989) (TV - 1 episode)
• Exile (1990 film) (TV)
• Shadows of the Heart (1990)
• An American Summer (1991)
• The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (1991) (TV - 1 episode)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel: The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits . 7th revised and expanded edition, New York City, New York: Billboard Books, 2005, p. 34
2. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/artist/1338399-Sherri%C3%A9-Austin?filter_anv=0&subtype=Writing-Arrangement&type=Credits
3. ↑ https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/42347/sherrie-austin-goes-diy-for-first-album-in-8-years
4. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: [1]

Web links

Commons : Sherrié Austin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Sherrié Austin
• Sherrié Austin at Discogs (English)
• Sherrié Austin in the Internet Movie Database (English)