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CIN - Farmer's Daughter
Christian Info News, October 1997
Defying the country stereotype
By Anne Eapen
COUNTRY MUSIC ain't my cuppa tea. Having said that, I was very pleasantly surprised by Farmer's Daughter, a female trio based out of White Rock. These attractive women are Canadian Country Music Association's and Big Country Music's 1997 Country Group of the Year. They also garnered five B.C. Country Music Association awards. And for the third year in a row, Farmer's Daughter was in contention for a Juno award.
Farmer's Daughter (from left):
Angela Kelman, Jake Leiske,
Shauna Rae Samograd |
Prairie-born Jake (Jacqueline) Leiske, cousin ShaunaRae Samograd and Angela Kelman have been in the fast lane of musical success since their Girls Will Be Girls album in 1993. It generated seven hit singles.
Despite the numerous Canadian awards, the group hasn't made inroads into Country's mecca. Samograd explains: "I don't know if we're Nashville. We don't have a traditional country sound or a traditional country approach."
Samograd and Leiske began performing and touring with their family's gospel group, Heritage Singers, at the tender ages of two and five, respectively. They went on to have separate solo careers in music and television, and came together with Kelman in the fall of 1992 to do the "female harmony thang."
Leiske's mother, Rita, says the girls attend church when they can, "but they are on the road so often, they do not have a home church." The group's fall tour is in partnership with World Vision Canada and will feature their current album Makin' Hay. It contains at least three chart toppers: 'Cornfields or Cadillacs,' 'Lonely Gipsy Wind' and 'Now That I'm on My Own.' The album showcases their gospel roots blended with jazzy R & B harmonies -- and its of head bobbing, toe-tapping quality.
Check it out -- especially you who've written off country music.
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