The SHeDAISY Page
by Jon Merrill
Early History:
SHeDAISY is the hot country sister-trio act that became hot on the country charts in spring 1999. Their single, "Little Good-byes" on Lyric Street Records hit #3 on the country chart in '99, followed by "This Woman Needs" which reached #9 as an album cut. In 2000 SHeDAISY had their biggest hit yet with "I Will...But" which came within a whisker of hitting #1, peaking at #2 for three straight weeks. Earlier in 2001 "Lucky 4 You" hit #11 as their fourth Top 20 country hit. SHeDAISY's album, "The Whole SHeBANG" was released on May 11, 1999, bringing excitement to us fans and delighting the critics as well, and it stayed on the country album chart in the top 25 for two years. In 2000 SHeDAISY received a platinum album award for "The Whole SHeBANG" for a million copies sold.
In late 2000, the group released their second album, "Brand New Year," consisting of Christmas songs in contemporary style and a brilliant title cut, one of the finest cuts they have recorded to date. The album hit the Top 10 on the country chart in December 2000.
In 2001, SHeDAISY re-released "The Whole SHeBANG," this time with instrumental remixes more in the pop vein than on the original album.
The group released the album "Knock On The Sky" in 2002, and it debuted at #3 on the country album chart.
SHeDAISY consists of three sisters, Kristyn, Kelsi, and Kassidy Osborn, who currently live in Nashville but grew up in the Salt Lake City area. They are all in their 20s or early 30s, but they have been singing together for probably almost as long as they can remember. They began singing publicly at county fairs in Utah when they were kids, and when they were teenagers in 1990, they released a single called "Only On The Radio" as The Osborn Sisters. Ever since then, one by one, Kristyn, Kelsi, and Kassidy graduated from high school and moved to Nashville and have been looking around for a record label deal ever since. Finally, the hard work and diligence of the three Osborn sisters paid off, and they were signed in the late 1990s to Disney's Lyric Street Records.
SHeDAISY is a Navajo Native American word meaning "little sister" or "my sister."
I first became acquainted with the Osborn family when I saw Kelsi do a wonderful job performing the title role in "Annie" at Robert Redford's Sundance Theatre in Utah when she was 12. A little later on, I saw both Kelsi and Kassidy appear in "Annie" at the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake. By this time, older sister Kristyn was in Nashville beginning to write songs and become acquainted with the music business, and her two younger sisters often joined her in their teens during summers off from school, at which time they began to put their fine harmonies together to form their trio act and pursue their dreams of being country music performers.
More details on these talented young women are at the external link below,
which is SHeDAISY’s own Web site.
Early Pictures of SHeDAISY
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Annie People, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992
Here is what SHeDAISY looked like a decade ago. This was an early promo shot when the girls were about 18, 14, and 12, respectively.
Kelsi played the title role in "Annie" at the Sundance Theatre in Utah in the summer of 1987 when she was 12 years old. She played 48 performances, never missing one, in all kinds of weather in an outdoor theater. That's Kelsi in the red dress (obviously) and the red curly Annie wig. That's the proud Annie fan club president (me) behind the dog.
When Kelsi was 13, she won first place in the Sounds of Summer statewide singing contest in Utah. Here she is, belting out "New York, New York."
In December 1988, Kelsi and Kassidy both played Orphans in another "Annie" show, this time at the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City. I was in town for the show, and we were all interviewed on the CBS-TV News in Salt Lake after the show. Kelsi, 14, is in blue at the right, and Kassidy, 12, is in the center, also in blue.
Here is a very early performance of all three in SHeDAISY singing together at Smith's Food Festival in Salt Lake City as The Osborn Sisters. This was in 1989, when the girls were 12, 14, and 18. From left to right, Kassidy, Kelsi, and Kristyn.
The Beginning! "Only On The Radio" b/w "Hug-Buddy" was released on the West-Sound record label by The Osborn Sisters in early 1990. For you younger fans, this is a 45 r.p.m. vinyl "record," something we older folks might remember from our far distant earlier days.
More shots of Kelsi and Kassidy performing at Disneyland in 1989. To give you an idea of how long the Osborns have been performing together, that little one in the middle--youngest singing Osborn sister Karli at age 4--is now in college! Karli is a very gifted singer in her own right and may just continue the family tradition and be a recording star, although at this time she is playing college basketball. When I visited SHeMomma and SHeDaddy at home in 1999, Karli sang for me a great song composed for her by Kristyn.
This is one of their publicity headshots, I think from about 1990, around the time "Only On The Radio" was released.
This is one of their headshots from a couple of years later, about 1992, when they were performing as The Osborns.
More early SHeDAISY pictures, added January 2002
After meeting the Osborns in summer 1987 when Kelsi was performing the title role in "Annie" on the stage, I was visiting my girlfriend in Salt Lake City a few months later, a couple of weeks before Christmas, and the Osborns had us over to their house. She took these pictures at this time. Kelsi was 13, and Kassidy was 11.
SHeDaddy, SHeMomma, Kassidy, Kelsi, and me at the dining room table.
I am showing Kassidy and Kelsi pictures of my Annie collection back home. A year later in 1988, I came out to Salt Lake again to see both Kelsi and Kassidy in a production of "Annie."
Kassidy and Kelsi are singing some Christmas songs in the living room. SHeDAISY's roots go back a long way!
Kassidy and Kelsi in the living room. Kristyn was there when we arrived but had gone out by the time the pictures were taken later in the evening. Karli was about 2 or 3 and had probably already gone to bed. The next time I saw Karli was in summer 1999 in this same room when she was 14.
Kassidy looks on while Kelsi does "Winter Wonderland" and SHeDaddy adjusts the karaoke.
Kassidy and Kelsi with a very early SHeDAISY fan, December 1987.
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