By Annabella Ramirez
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Katrina Ruth Elam (born December 12, 1983) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Universal South Records in 2004, she released her self-titled debut album that year, charting in the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) with the No. 29 “No End in Sight” and the No. 59 “I Want a Cowboy”. A third single, “Love Is”, peaked at No. 47 from an unreleased second album Turn Me Up. Elam left the label in 2008.
Elam was born in Bray, Oklahoma, population 1,035. She performed in a 4-H talent show at the age of 9. In 1998, she was named female vocalist of the year by the Oklahoma Country Music Association and the Oklahoma Opry now the Rodeo Opry. Elam received a publishing contract at the age of 16. In her senior year of high school, her mother home schooled her because of her busy writing and recording schedule.
After completing high school, Katrina Elam moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she secured a contract with Universal South Records. Jimmie Lee Sloas produced her first self-titled album, released on October 5, 2004. The album reached No. 42 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and No. 33 on Top Heatseekers chart. The first single, “No End in Sight”, reached No. 29 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The follow-up single “I Want a Cowboy” reached No. 59 on the same chart. Elam also toured in 2004 with Keith Urban.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Dr. Joel Roberts Poinsett (introduced the poinsettia plant to the U.S.) –
- Robert Browning (poet) –
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt (astronomer) –
- Dee Brown (author) –
- Keiko the killer whale (star of the Free Willy movies, died at 27 of pneumonia in a Norwegian fjord) –
- Peter Boyle (actor) –
- Tom Laughlin (actor) –
Born
- Edvard Munch (artist) –
- Frank Sinatra (singer) –
- Bob Barker (game show host and animal activist) –
- Edward “Ed” Koch (former mayor of New York City) –
- Connie Francis (singer) –
- Dionne Warwick (singer ) –
- Madeleine Wickham (author, aka Sophie Kinsella) –
- Jennifer Connelly (actress) –
- Katrina Elam (country music singer) –
Events
- Pennsylvania ratified the Constitution and became the second state in the Union –
- Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American to serve as a U.S. representative –
- Golf was played for the first time in the U.S. at Franklin Park, Boston –
- George Grant received patent for improved golf tee –
- Father Edward Flanagan founded a home for boys in Omaha, Nebraska—the start of Boys Town –
- Orange soil discovered by Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt during their second day of exploration on the lunar surface –
- Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones accepted a knighthood from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace –
- Jean Chretien stepped down after 10 years as Canada’s popular and often argumentative prime minister. Paul Martin, a former finance minister, inherited his post, becoming the 21st prime minister. –
Weather
- Snow accumulated to 16 inches in Nantucket, Massachusetts –
- Baltimore received 12 inches of snow in the first of three major storms that winter –
- 20.4 inches of snow covered Newark, New Jersey –
- Albany, New York, registered a low of -12 degrees F –
- After a two-day storm, 17.1 inches of snow covered Minneapolis, Minnesota. The snow event set an all-time record for two-day snowfall in December. The weight of the snow caused a tear in the roof of the Metrodome and deflated it, forcing the Vikings-Giants game to be rescheduled and moved to Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. –
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