Cheryl Cormier

Cheryl Cormier is evidence that nation music exists north from the Mason-Dixon range. With her root base in rock and roll and blues, the Hartford, Connecticut-based vocalist provides used a Wynonna and Trisha Yearwood-like crossover method of nation music. A indigenous of rural Maine, Cormier was raised encircled by music; her parents sang in the neighborhood cathedral choir and had been fans of from traditional music and jazz to nation music and pop. Although she researched trumpet from age ten, she turned towards the piano seven years afterwards. After participating in the College or university of Maine in Orono, she used in the Hartt College of Music in Western world Hartford, Connecticut. Through the 3 years she went to the institution, she studied traditional music, musical movie theater and opera. She still left the institution, without graduating, when her instructor shifted to Germany. Staying in Connecticut, Cormier sang jingles with numerous local bands, developing her personal group in 1993. Her self-produced debut recording was documented at Jim Chapdelaine’s Western Hartford studio room with programs for launch in Sept 1998.