Tara Lyn Hart (

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Mohr; born April 11, 1978) is a Canadian

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singer. She released one self-titled album for

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in 1999, which charted singles on the country music charts of both Canada and the United States.

Biography

Tara Lyn Mohr was born in

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. She won a music contest at the age of 17, which enabled her to record demos to be distributed to Canadian country radio.

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's manager Danny Schur passed her recordings to

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's Mike Roth, which led to a recording contract with

on the eve of her 18th birthday and two weeks before her wedding. In 1998, Hart was named ''

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''s "Most Likely to Succeed". Her self-titled debut album was released on October 5, 1999. At the 2000

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s, she was nominated for Best Country Female Artist and the all-genre Best New Solo Artist. In April 2000, she was invited to perform at the

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. Hart won three awards at the 2000 Manitoba Association of Country Arts Awards for Female Vocalist, Song of the Year, and Video of the Year for "Stuff That Matters." On June 9, 2000, she won two awards at

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's Big Country Awards for Outstanding New Female Artist and Canadian Country Video of the Year for "Stuff That Matters." She was nominated for six awards at the 2000

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(CCMA) Awards, won the

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Rising Star Award at the September 11, 2000, ceremony, and picked up two more nominations at the 2000 Prairie Music Awards for 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

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and

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. She began work on her second album in June 2003, and the first single, "Happiness," was released in September. Before the album was finished, Hart abandoned the project to spend more time with her husband and their three children. She began work on a musical comedy, "Miss Kitty's Holiday Extravaganza," which ran from October to December 2004. In November 2010 she released a six-song Christmas EP, ''Perfect Holiday''.

Discography

Albums

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Tara Lyn Hart Fact Sheet
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hart, Tara Lyn 1978 births Living people Canadian women country singers Epic Records artists Columbia Records artists Canadian Country Music Association Rising Star Award winners 21st-century Canadian women singers