Chalee Tennison

Chalee Tennison
Born	April 11, 1969 (1969-04-11) (age 42)
Origin	USA
Genres	Country
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1999-present
Labels	Asylum, DreamWorks Nashville
Associated acts	Leland Martin

Chalee Tennison (born April 11, 1969) is an American country music artist from the state of Texas. She has released three major-label studio albums (two on Asylum Records and one on Dreamworks Records) in addition to charting six singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Her highest charting singles, "Just Because She Lives There" and "Go Back", both reached #36 on that chart.

Biography

Prior to her music career, Tennison worked as a prison guard in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, in addition to performing in various Texas bands.^[1] She moved to Nashville, Tennessee and worked as a demo singer, eventually signing to Asylum Records in 1999.^[1] She recorded two albums on Asylum, both albums producing minor chart entries. In 2002, she moved to DreamWorks Records and recorded her Parading in the Rain album on that label.^[2] Although she has not recorded any albums since, she made an appearance on Leland Martin's 2006 single "Same Old Song and Dance" from his self-titled album.

Discography

Albums

Title	Album details
Chalee Tennison	Release date: June 8, 1999 Label: Asylum Records
This Woman's Heart	Release date: October 10, 2000 Label: Asylum Records
Parading in the Rain	Release date: September 16, 2003 Label: DreamWorks Nashville

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions		Album
		US Country	CAN Country
1999	"Someone Else's Turn to Cry"	46	86	Chalee Tennison
	"Handful of Water"	64	—
2000	"Just Because She Lives There"	36	78
	"Makin' Up with You"	56	*	This Woman's Heart
2001	"Go Back"	36	*
2002	"Lonesome Road"	54	*	Parading in the Rain
2003	"Easy Lovin' You"	—	*
	"Parading in the Rain"	—	*
"—" denotes releases that did not chart * denotes unknown peak positions

Guest singles

Year	Single	Artist	Album
2006	"Same Ol' Song and Dance"	Leland Martin	Leland Martin

Music videos

Year	Video	Director
1999	"Someone Else's Turn to Cry"	Jim Shea
	"Handful of Water"	Mo Fitzgibbon/Robert Walker
	"Just Because She Lives There"	Jim Shea
2000	"Makin' Up with You"
2003	"Easy Lovin' You"
2006	"Same Ol' Song and Dance" (with Leland Martin)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Ankeny, Jason. "allmusic ((( Chalee Tennison > Biography )))". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p371146/biography. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 
2. ^ "Chalee Tennison to DreamWorks". CMT.com. http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1452265/20020212/tennison_chalee.jhtml. Retrieved 2007-08-02. 

Persondata
Name	Tennison, Chalee
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	April 11, 1969
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death