Pam Tillis

About

Pamela Yvonne Tillis (born July 24, 1957) is an American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She is the eldest child of country singer Mel Tillis. After recording unsuccessful pop material for Elektra and Warner Records in the early 1980s, Tillis shifted to country music. In 1989, she signed with Arista Nashville, entering top-40 on Hot Country Songs for the first time with “Don’t Tell Me What to Do” in 1990. This was the first of five singles from her breakthrough album Put Yourself in My Place.
Tillis recorded five more albums for Arista Nashville in the next ten years, including a greatest hits album. She charted twelve top-ten hits on the Billboard country music charts with Arista, including the number-one “Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)” in 1995. Other major hits of hers include her signature song “Maybe It Was Memphis”, along with “Shake the Sugar Tree”, “Spilled Perfume”, a cover of Jackie DeShannon’s “When You Walk in the Room”, and “All the Good Ones Are Gone”. After exiting Arista, Tillis released It’s All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis for Lucky Dog Records in 2002, and RhineStoned and the Christmas album Just in Time for Christmas on her own Stellar…