- Born
- Birth nameSandra Lou Posey
- Her biography shows that she graduated from high school in Memphis, Tn. in 1962 but she actually went to and graduated from West Memphis High School in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1962 where she was a high school cheer leader and member of the West Memphis High School Home Coming Court.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Robert Dill Classmate from West Memphis High School.
- SpouseWade Cummings(1968 - present)
- Was prototype for Nashville's country-politan sound of the 1960s.
- Nominated for two Grammys in 1962.
- Graduated from high school in Memphis, Tennessee in 1962.
- Her first single record, under the name "Sandy Carmel", was "Kiss Me Goodnight" (1965), which was written by William Cates.
- After high school, she obtained work as a session singer, after she was recommended by an aunt to an acquaintance who worked in television. In addition to acting as a receptionist at a studio in Memphis, she took part in recordings across the Deep South and appeared, for example, on recording sessions produced by Lincoln "Chip" Moman for Elvis Presley and on Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman" (a number on hit in the USA in 1966). Other singers whom she backed included Joe Tex, Bobby Goldsboro and Tommy Roe.
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