Karen Staley

b. Weirton, Virginia, USA. Staley is a singer-songwriter whose credits include a number of songs for Faith Hill (‘Take Me As I Am' and ‘Let's Go To Vegas'), Patty Loveless and Tracy Byrd (‘Keeper Of The Stars'). Raised in Georgetown, Pennsylvania, Staley claims to have been attracted to a career in music through the boredom she endured at the Methodist church meetings her parents took her to. Instead she chose to study John Wesley's Methodist hymnals, and took him as her chief inspiration when she began to write songs. However, her singing then took a back seat to employment a...