Who is janie fricke

She has also been given the privilege to sing on albums for Charlie Rich and Elvis Presley, after their deaths. It was a line in Johnny Duncan's single Stranger that ultimately gained the most attention for Fricke. When it hit the top of the charts in , fans wanted to know who sang the line, "Shut out the light and lead me While studying for her bachelor's degree in elementary education at Indiana University, she kept active musically.

It remained more of a hobby, though, and not a serious career choice at the time. It was only when she started earning extra money by singing commercial jingles that she began to see that music could actually earn her a living. This naturally gifted singer was born Jane Marie Fricke on December 19, , in South Whitley, Indiana, the daughter of a guitar-playing father and a mother who taught piano lessons and played the organ in their local church.

Growing up on her family's acre farm in northern Indiana, she was surrounded by music almost from birth. While still quite young, she learned to play the guitar from her father and the piano from her mother. By the time she was 10, Janie was singing regularly in church and school. Janie recalls, "Music was in our family ever since I was a little girl, so I enjoyed music and the art of making music since the age of seven or eight years old.

I didn't think I was going to make it a profession. It was just what I enjoyed and it was fun. It didn't even occur to me that it might become a profession for me on down the line. Although she grew up in rural Indiana and later won her greatest fame as a country singer, Janie showed little interest in country music as a child.

She relays, "My family was always encouraging me to sing all of the pop songs of the time, so we were buying sheet music and I was singing Dusty Springfield and Rita Coolidge — anything that was a strong pop song at the time.

So I was not your average country singer growing up on the farm and just singing country music. Musically, I was technically trained to read music and play the piano. After graduating from high school, Fricke headed to Indiana University at Bloomington to study for her bachelor's degree in elementary education. She had long set her sights on a career as a grade school teacher.

Given her musical childhood, it was not particularly surprising that she got involved with the school's famous Singing Hoosiers, a chorale ensemble that has toured widely in the United States and abroad. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic.

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