Most entertainers move to Las Vegas as their career is winding down, but Tammy Graham did the opposite. She used the Vegas clubs as a launching pad for her career as a contemporary country vocalist, releasing her eponymous national debut in 1997 after years of toiling away in lounges.
As a child in Little Rock, Arkansas, Tammy Graham (b. Tammy Wynette Graham, February 7, 1968) was something of a child prodigy, teaching herself how to play rocking boogie-woogie piano like Jerry Lee Lewis. By the age of nine, she had won several local and regional talent contests, and had place...