COUNTRY-SOUL SINGER who keeps it real and raw. You can feel every syllable of every note as this passionate singer belts it out. 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.