Shelia Marlene Andrews was born in Athens, Alabama before moving to Akron, Ohio. Andrews father would travel to Ohio from Alabama to work in rubber plants and was a truck driver when he worked in Alabama. Eventually the family moved to Ohio for good. When Andrews was 16 she got married, but later divorced her husband. She had four children with her first husband. While living in Ohio, Andrews got a job selling carpeting over the phone for CarpetTown. Later when she was 23 she began singing in a nightclub. Her second husband "discovered" her and urged her to move to Nashvil…
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