I was born in Ohio but then moved to Colorado as a kid. We always joke that Lance grew up singing in the clubs and I grew up singing in church What made you two decide to have careers in country music? For me (Lea) it started when my dad passed away and I wrote my first ...
On his own as a teenager -- his father died when Charles was 10 and his mother five years later -- he began playing in bands around Florida. He moved to Seattle in 1947 and formed a trio, playing Nat King Cole-style jazz in area nightclubs. It was there that Charles struck up a ...