Sara Evans

Sara Evans was born in 1971 in Boonville, Missouri. She married in 1993 and had three children by 2004. She released her first album, Three Chords and the Truth in 1997, none of the songs from that album made it into the Top 40 Country songs.

Her second album, No Place That Far, included the song by the same name which went to #1 in late 1998. Her next album, Born to Fly, was released in 2000 and had three top 10 hits including "Born to Fly", "I Could Not Ask For More", and "I Keep Looking". Born to Fly is her most popular album to date. In 2001, she was nominated for seven CMAs, the most of any other artist that year.

In 2003, she released Restless which included her third #1 hit "Suds in the Bucket" and "Perfect" peaked at #2. The next album, Real Fine Place was her first album to reach #1 and it included her fourth #1 song, "A Real Fine Place to Start". In 2006 she won her first ACM for Top Female Vocalist.

She appeared on Dancing With The Stars in the fall of 2006 but chose to withdraw from the competition in October because of the pending divorce from her husband of 13 years. In 2007, Evans released a greatest hits album featuring the song "As If" and hosted the CMAs with LeAnn Rimes.

In the summer of 2008 she married Jay Barker, former star quarterback for the University of Alabama, who led the Tide to a National Championship in 1992. Barker had four children from a previous marriage.

In 2009, she released a 4-song EP, I'll Be Home For Christmas. Evans co-authored a fictional book called Sweet By and By released in early 2010. It is part of a 4-book deal with one book to be released each year until 2013.

Her sixth album, Stronger, is set to be released in March of 2011 - a five and a half year gap between albums. The first single from it, "A Little Bit Stronger", is currently #32 on the Country charts...the song was written by Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum.

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