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| It all started for Sherri when she was 4
years old and wrote her first song about a frog, a log, and a
bog. Her tiny hands ever-so-carefully drew the notes on a
homemade staff with a treble clef, time signature, the notes
themselves complete with rests, and the words underneath.
Then her music progressed as she took piano lessons but always
wanted to change all the songs to "her own way". Finally,
she began writing her own "real songs", beginning with a song
for her first love when
she was 15, entitled "Forever" (how original). From that point, she wrote songs in many genres of music, including
contemporary Christian, ballads, and jazz instrumentals. Christian music has always
been a part of her repertoire because of her deep faith in God. She is a
keyboardist, sax player, and taught herself to play guitar (a little). Sherri is originally from New Hope, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. She
came to Nashville to attend David Lipscomb University, and met this
guy in the Lipscomb A Capella Chorus named Greg who is now her
husband. So, needless to say, Sherri stayed in Nashville. She developed a love for country music
because her college roommate kept playing it in the car, and it just kind of "grew on
her". |
Photo Taken in Year 2000 |
Photo Taken in Year 2005 |
Now, Sherri's life is full of love and laughter and family
and faith and music. She and Greg and their
children Christopher, Brendan, Brooklyn, Nicholas, and Turner
live in Nashville where the studios are close and Sherri gets to
make music in her "spare time." She is active in the
children's ministry at Brentwood Hills Church of Christ.
In fact, she has written songs and puppet scripts for children's
worship and songs for VBS. She also writes for Nashville
Christian Family Magazine and writes a monthly newsletter for
"Grand Central Station" at church, where she serves as
co-coordinator. Sherri has performed as a writer at
several dinners and church functions.
Most importantly, as she has grown as a person and into a
deeper faith in God, her music has grown with her. Oh
sure, she has traded in the notes on a staff for the Nashville
number system, but her desire to create music has remained.
"Once the music is in your soul, in the
very being of who you are, it never goes away. It may lie
dormant for periods of time in your life, but it is always there
and will always resurface, sometimes just when you need it the
most." |
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