Sherrié Austin
| Sherrié Austin | |
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Austin onboard the USS Enterprise in 2004
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Sherrie Veronica Krenn |
| Born |
28 August 1970 Sydney, Australia |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels |
Arista Nashville WE Records/Madacy Broken Bow Circus Girl, LLC |
| Associated acts | Colorhaus |
| Website | www |
Sherrie Veronica Krenn (born 28 August 1970), known professionally as Sherrié Austin, is an Australian actress and singer. Active as a singer since her teenage years, Austin initially recorded as one half of the duo Colourhaus, which also featured Phil Radford. After leaving Colourhaus, 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 No. 18 "Streets of Heaven" in 2003. She has sold over 430,000 albums and 288,000 singles in her career, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Her fifth album was released on 15 November 2011.
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 the United States for playing the role of Pippa McKenna on The Facts of Life in 1987–88. In 1991 she appeared as "Lady Penelope" on episode No. 20 of the first season of the TV comedy series Fresh Prince of Bel Air starring Will Smith. In the 1990s, she started a singing career, teaming up with Phil Radford in 1992 to form a duo called Colourhaus, which released one album, Water to the Soul.
The Colorhaus song "Color Me You" was on the soundtrack of the "Rookie of the Year" episode of the TV series, Baywatch on Oct. 05, 1992.
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 No. 34 each.
Her second and final album for Arista was 1999's Love in the Real World, led off by the No. 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".
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