Sherrie Austin Bio - Biography

Name Sherrie Austin
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Naionality Australian
Date of Birth August 28, 1970
Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Austin got her start in music opening for Johnny Cash in Australia at the age of 14. She later moved to the United States where she took up acting. She is most known in America for playing the role of Pippa McKenna on The Facts of Life in the late 1980s. In the 1990s, she started a singing career, teaming up with Phil Radford in 1992 to form a duo called Colorhaus, which released one album, Water to the Soul. Afterward, Sherrié moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a career in country music. She originally signed to Arista Records, charting several minor singles and releasing two albums on that label. After RCA acquired Arista Records, Austin's publishing company, Reynsong Publishing, formed Wrensong Entertainment and the independent label WE records, for the purpose of releasing her third solo album. Later, she switched to the independent Broken Bow Records label; her fourth album of country music, titled Streets of Heaven, produced her biggest country hit in its title track. She has since been dropped by Broken Bow.

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