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Rissi Palmer is an American country music singer-songwriter and musician.|Rissi Palmer was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1981. She lived in the suburb of Sewickley until moving with her family to Eureka, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, at the age of 12. Her parents were natives of Georgia. Palmer has said her mother, who died when Palmer was seven, “was a huge Patsy Cline fan”, while her father loved musicians such as Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Chaka Khan, and Santana.[3] Palmer said she knew from a young age that she wanted to sing. As a child, she sang on a Mickey Mouse Club-like local television show called Team 11. At age 16, she performed country music at the Arkansas State Fair.
When she was 19, R&B producers James “Jimmy Jam” Harris III and Terry Lewis offered her a deal on their Flyte Tyme Records. Palmer rejected the deal because she said they wanted to turn her “twangy” country style into a “pop/soul hybrid.” As she said, “I love R&B and urban music, but it wasn’t what I wanted to do. I knew I wouldn’t be happy doing that.” After that, Palmer sang jingles for Barbie commercials, performed on the Dance Fever television show, and competed on Star Search, all while trying in vain for ...
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