Terri Clark was born on Aug. 5, 1968, in Montreal and was raised in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. She moved to Nashville at age 18 and paid her dues by playing at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, the famous honky-tonk bar across the alley from the Ryman Auditorium. After signing to Mercury Records, she reached No. 3 with her first single, “Better Things to Do,” in 1995, followed by hits like “When Boy Meets Girl,” a remake of “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” and “Now That I Found You.” After hitting No. 1 in 1998 with “Easy on the Eyes,” Clark downplayed the cowgirl image, but her career momentum faltered. However, in 2003, she rebounded with the spunky hit “I Just Wanna Be Mad.”