Looking Like A Cali Girl, Temperance Lancecouncil
Temperance Lancecouncil is a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, California, who hails from the Carolina/Virginia line. Having overcome two bouts of life-threatening, double pneumonia as an infant, by age three, she'd begun singing and dancing with her mother, who taught her three-part harmony. The words “quadruple threat” have been used to describe her; as she sings, dances, acts and is a media broadcaster. Nevertheless, she says her country-soul style of expressing herself best describes who she really is, and she swears that even after big signing deals, awards and accolades, she'll always be humble, like her momma raised her. What makes her country is that she grew up in a Southern, small-town, loving the music of artists like Dolly Parton and Glen Campbell; and couldn't get enough of the show, “Hee Haw,” a country music, variety, TV show. What makes her soulful is her deep, raw, passionate-stirring, vocal style. She counts soul, singer James Brown, as the performer most inspirational to her to creativity. Her music is nitty-gritty, just like her real life has been, and her songs are all truth-inspired. Her first year of college was at a rural, Christian school in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where students were given Bibles at orientation. She sang in the school's annual pageant and placed in the top three. After the movie, “Sunset Boulevard,” “Coal Miner's Daughter” places second in her all-time favorites.
