Victoria Shaw (singer)

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Victoria Shaw


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Victoria Lynn Shaw
Born = birth date and age|1962|07|13
Origin = Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Instrument = Vocals
Genre = Country
Occupation = Singer-songwriter
Years_active = 1984-present
Label = MPB, Reprise, Taffeta
Associated_acts = Garth Brooks
Lady Antebellum
John Michael Montgomery
Doug Stone
URL = http://www.victoriashaw.com

Victoria Lynn Shaw (born July 13, 1962 in Manhattan, New York City, New Yorkcite web |url=http://wm07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0pfoxqegldje~T1 |title=allmusic Victoria Shaw Biography |accessdate=2007-11-05 |last=Bush |first=John |work=All Music Guide] ) is an American country music artist. She has recorded four studio albums, and has charted five singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. In addition, she has co-written four Number One singles for other country music artists, including John Michael Montgomery's "I Love the Way You Love Me", which won the 1993 Academy of Country Music award for Song of the Year.

Biography

Shaw was born in Manhattan, a borough of New York City, on July 13, 1962. Inspired by country rock musicians such as the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, she began writing songs at an early age. Later, she and her sister found work performing together in the Los Angeles area.

Eventually, Shaw moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she found a publishing contract and a record deal. A minor single, "Break My Heart", was released in 1984 on the MPB label, peaking at #61 on the Hot Country Songs charts. Her first major hit as a songwriter came in 1992, when Garth recorded her song "The River" and took it to the top of the "Billboard" country charts.cite web |url=http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Victoria-Shaw.html |title=Victoria Shaw Biography |accessdate=2007-11-05 |work=Oldies.com] A year later, Doug Stone reached Number One on the country charts with Shaw's "Too Busy Being in Love". Later that same year, another Shaw-penned song — John Michael Montgomery's "I Love the Way You Love Me" — reached the top of the country charts; that song also won an Academy of Country Music award for Song of the Year.

In 1995, Shaw signed to Reprise Records, releasing her debut album "In Full View" that year. Three of this album's singles — "Cry Wolf", "Tears Dry" and "Forgiveness" — all reached the lower regions of the Hot Country Songs charts. That same year, Brooks reached Number One with another one of Shaw's compositions, the song "She's Every Woman".

Shaw's second album for Reprise, "Victoria Shaw", was released in 1997; however, it produced no chart singles. In 1998, Shaw collaborated with Brooks, Billy Dean, Faith Hill, Olivia Newton-John, Neal McCoy, Michael McDonald and Bryan White for a charity single (written for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation) entitled "One Heart at a Time", which charted at #56 on the Billboard Hot 100. Also that year, Trisha Yearwood recorded the song "Where Your Road Leads", which Shaw co-wrote and originally recorded on "In Full View". Yearwood's rendition of the song, which was recorded as a duet with Brooks, served as the title track to her 1998 album "Where Your Road Leads", from which it was released as a single.

After exiting Reprise in 1998, Shaw released her third album, "Old Friends, New Memories", in 2001 on the Taffeta label. This album included her renditions of the songs that she had written for other artists. In the mid-2000s, Shaw returned to songwriting as well. Two of her songs, Emerson Drive's "A Good Man" and Eric Church's "Two Pink Lines", both charted in 2006. In addition, she and Paul Worley co-produced Lady Antebellum's self-titled debut album, which was released in April 2008. Also in 2008, Shaw released her fourth album, "Bring on the Love".

Discography

Albums

ingles

*^AFailed to chart.

References

External links

* [http://www.victoriashaw.com Official website]