Teresa Fay Gibbs (born June 15, 1954)[2] is an American country music artist.
Gibbs was born in Miami, Florida, United States, but raised in the Augusta, Georgia, suburb of Grovetown.
At six months of age, Gibbs was diagnosed with retrolental fibroplasia and declared blind.
[1] As a child, she sang in the church choir and at talent contests, and she opened for Bill Anderson at the age of 17.
[6] She performed in and around the Augusta area and eventually, she met Chet Atkins, who advised her to move to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a country music career, which she did at age eighteen.
[1] After failing to find a record deal, she moved to Miami and joined a band called Sound Dimension.
[8] Her debut album won her the Academy of Country Music's Top New Female Vocalist award.
[1] Her final MCA album, Over Easy, also produced a minor hit in "Anybody Else's Heart but Mine", and after releasing a compilation called The Best of Terri Gibbs, she left the label.
[11][13] They had one son, David Wayne Daughtry II, born October 20, 1989.
[14] Gibbs performed during the Artists Music Guild's 2012 AMG Heritage Awards on November 10, 2012, and upon the completion of her performance she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her years of dedication to her craft without having any prior knowledge that she would be receiving such honors.