Background
Tammy was born and raised in a small rural town called Austinburg, Ohio
She was born in 1972 to Mabel and Delmar Cochran and was the third of three children.
Tammy was born and raised in a small rural town called Austinburg, Ohio
She was born in 1972 to Mabel and Delmar Cochran and was the third of three children.
Signed to Epic Records Nashville in 2000, she released her self titled debut album that year, followed a year later by Life Happened. These two albums produced a total of six chart singles for her on the Billboard country charts between 2000 and 2003, of which the highest-charting was "Angels in Waiting" at Number. 9. A third album, Where I Am, followed in 2007.
Growing up, she listened to recordings from Loretta Lynn and Barbara Mandrell.
She joined a couple of bands before making her own band called "TC Country" that played at fairs and weddings. Cochran finished high school and took vocational training to become a secretary.
She then moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1991. In 1998, Cochran met Shane Decker, a songwriter for Warner Brothers
Records. He offered his help on making demos to send to record companies after seeing Cochran.
He also helped her get a job as a songwriter for Warner Chappell. Her demo tapes were sent to Epic Records. She released her first single that same year called "If You Can", followed by "So What".
9, and its success led to the release of her self-titled debut album.
This album"s fourth single, "I Cry", reached Top 20 as well. Cochran"s second album for Epic, Life Happened, was released a year later.
The lead-off single reached Top 20, while "Love Won"t Let Maine", the follow-up, peaked at Number. 31 and Cochran was dropped from Epic in 2003.
Her third album, Where I Am, was issued on the independent Shanachie Records in 2007.
In 2014 she starred in a musical show entitled "One" at the Alabama Theatre in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.