Robin Meade made her mark in the late 1990s as morning news anchor at WMAQ-Channel 5
She has since Traveled Thurs CNN and wrote a New York Times best seller Morning Sunshine! How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It, Too. She was Voted "Sexiest Newscaster" by Playboy.com. She now hosts HLN's "Morning Express With Robin Meade." She is Also Working on her first full-length country music album.
On Saturday, Meade Makes her debut at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn. She will sing the holiday pop ballad "Welcome Home," accompanied by new-agey pianist Jim Brickman.
The song was written by Brickman and Nashville Producer-songwriter Victoria Shaw, WHO wrote "The River" for Garth Brooks.
Every hour in her HLN morning show, Meade salutes American troops in a homecoming segment.
"I hosted a special for GAC [Great American Country] in Nashville," Meade said Tuesday from her office in Atlanta. "Victoria was a judge, and I knew she Co-Produced Lady Antebellum's breakthrough debut album." Meade Told she wanted Shaw To Learn songwriting.
For the last 18 months, Meade has Been Commuting Thurs Nashville on vacations and weekends Thurs write with Shaw and John Rich of Big & Rich and to work "is her own material. "Most People Will not Know Until this My Album Comes out next year," she said.
The record has 13 songs, about half of Which were composed by Meade. "There's two" Covers, "she said. "They are surprises. One is a rock-pop classic from the '80s That we've countrified. I'll give you a hint. It is so Appropriate for the line of work I'm in".
Hmnm. Maybe Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry"?
Meade Laughed. "Can not say," she said. "But that's a darn, darn good guess."
Shaw is Producing the record at Various studios in Nashville, and Shaw and Meade are shopping for a label. They will work on the record this weekend. Also Shaw is working with the girl group Caroline Cutbirth, Which Includes the granddaughters of John Wayne and Loretta Lynn.
Shaw Connected with Meade Brickman, the WHO, is from Shaker Heights, Ohio. Meade, 41, is from New London, Ohio.
She sings, "Welcome Home" is Brickman's new album, "Home," released this week at Target stores. Brickman and country music singer Martina McBride, 1997 Had a hit with the ballad "Valentine."
Meade, the WHO has Been singing since sixth grade, said, "I wasn't a very good speaker in front of people. But I sang all the time" Growing up in the church. My dad was a minister. That seemed more natural for me please what I do for a living, Which is speaking in front of people. Your void becomes your value. "
Meade Is Not Ruling out a concert tour. "I'm on the air five days a week, But on Friday and Saturday nights are" open "when your audiences are in bigger venues," said Meade, WHO resembles country music star Shania Twain. "But I do not plan leaving the news. This is what I love to do."
Meade's record collection ranges from Adam Lambert Thurs country artists Dierks Bentley and Alison Krauss. She is a big karaoke fan.
"The show" Glee "? That was us," Meade said. "Voice lessons in college. I sang Broadway tunes. I won the Miss Ohio by singing Liza Minnelli's version of" Alexander's Ragtime Band. " That's a long way from country music. But anyone who has worked with me Would Not Find The whole singing thing out of left field. "
Visit Dave Hoekstra's Scratch Crib blog (blogs.sun times.com / Hoekstra) for more on Meade and Other Chicago news anchor musical pairings.
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