Career
Tara Lyn Hart has been singing since she was 5 years old. By the time she started junior high school, she was playing 80 dates a year, performing anywhere she could. Hart worked with Danny Schur, who was Chantal Kreviazuk"s manager at the time.
Schur passed her recordings to Sony Music Canada"s Mike Roth, which led to a recording contract with Epic Records on the eve of her 18th birthday and two weeks before her wedding.
In 1998, Hart was named Billboard magazine"s Most Likely to Succeed. Hart"s self-titled debut album was released on October 5, 1999.
The lead single, "Stuff That Matters," soared up the Canadian country singles chart, eventually peaking at an impressive Number. 6. At the 2000 Juno Awards, Hart was nominated for Best Country Female Artist, and the all-genre Best New Solo Artist.
In April 2000, she was invited to perform on the Grand Ole Opry.
She picked up two more nominations at the 2000 Prairie Music Awards - Outstanding Country Recording and Outstanding Album by a Major Label. At the 2001 Juno Awards, Hart was again nominated for Best Country Female Artist. She also picked up a nomination for Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2001 CCMA Awards, competing against Lisa Brokop, Terri Clark, Carolyn Dawn Johnson and Michelle Wright.
Meanwhile, her album continued to spawn successful singles such as "Save Maine," "I Will Be Loving You" and "What He Used To Do." Hart capped off 2001 with a SOCAN award for "Save Maine," a song she co-wrote with Hal Draper and David Quilico.
Hart began work on her second album in June 2003. The first single, "Happiness," was released in September.
She began work on a musical comedy, "Mission Kitty"s Holiday Extravaganza," which ran from October to December 2004. In 2010, Hart is releasing a six song Christmas European Parliament, Perfect Holiday, on November 30, 2010.