High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jill Christine King is an American singer-songwriter. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, she spent several years in Nashville, Tennessee, before being discovered at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a popular venue for singer-songwriters in Nashville. At the age of three, King was singing in church, a church her grandfather helped build. “My grandfather liked Gospel music and sang ‘I’ll Fly away.’ My dad was a chicken farmer and now is a preacher that owns and runs a plastic bag company. My mom was a third grade schoolteacher. Today, she has an antique business. I had cousins in Gospel quartets and my grandmother was a yodeler and sang at fiddling conventions, but there wasn’t a musical environment in our home. I sang in church and listened to Top 40 radio.” When she was 10, King took first place in an Our Little Miss pageant. “I liked doing the pageants cause I got to sing. When I won, the NY Daily News called me up for an interview. I was thinking, ‘I’m 10 and I’ve made it.’” She’d also discovered guitar and started writing songs. “I had an Ovation bow back that I could hardly keep on my lap. I started writing as soon as I knew a few chords.

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