Sherrié Austin

Sherrie Veronica Krenn (born August 28, 1970 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian actress and singer, known professionally as Sherrié Austin. Active as a singer since her teenage years, Sherrié initially recorded as one half of the duo Colorhaus, which also featured Phil Radford. After leaving Colorhaus, she recorded one album in her native Australia before moving to the United States in pursuit of a singing career. There, she recorded four studio albums, and charted several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Her highest-charting single was the #18 "Streets of Heaven" in 2003.

Career

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, Austin moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a career in country music. Her first solo contract was with Arista Nashville, with the album Words being released in 1997. It produced singles in "Lucky in Love", "One Solitary Tear", "Put Your Heart into It", and "Innocent Man". "Lucky in Love" and "Put Your Heart into It" both reached Top 40 on the country charts with a peak of #34 each.

Her second and final album for Arista was 1999's Love in the Real World, led off by the #29 "Never Been Kissed", which was followed by "Little Bird." After RCA acquired Arista Records, Austin's publishing company, Reynsong Publishing, formed Wrensong Entertainment and signed to Madacy Entertainment for her next album, Followin' a Feelin', which produced another single in its lead-off single, a cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene".

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. Following this single was "Son of a Preacher Man", a cover of the Dusty Springfield song, which was never included on an album.

Sherrie co-wrote Danielle Peck's 2007 single "Bad for Me", the title track to Blake Shelton's 2008 album Startin' Fires, George Strait's "Where Have I Been All My Life" off his 2009 album Twang, and Tim McGraw's duet, with wife Faith Hill, "Shotgun Rider" off his Let it Go album in 2007. Austin left Broken Bow in 2008.

Discography

Studio Albums

1992 Water to the Soul (as Colourhaus)

* Released: April 21, 1992
* Label: Interscope Records

1997 Words

* Released: July 15, 1997
* Label: Arista Nashville
* #41 US Country Charts

1999 Love in the Real World

* Released: August 10, 1999
* Label: Arista Nashville
* # 14 US Country Charts

2001 Followin' a Feelin'

* Released: March 20, 2001
* Label: Madacy Entertainment
* #43 US Country Charts

2003 Streets of Heaven

* Released: August 12, 2003
* Label: Broken Bow Records
* #22 US Country Charts

Singles

1992 "Innocent Child" (as Colourhaus)
1997 "Lucky in Love" #34 US Country Charts
1997 "One Solitary Tear" #41
1998 "Put Your Heart into It" #34
1998 "Innocent Man" #74
1999 "Never Been Kissed" #29
1999 "Little Bird" #49
2001 "Jolene" #55
2001 "Time, Love and Money"
2002 "In the Meantime"
2003 "Streets of Heaven" #18
2004 "Drivin' into the Sun" #50
2004 "Son of a Preacher Man" #46

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)

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