Tina Adair

Embarks on Next Career Chapter Photo by Terry Wyatt Considering her family history, there’s little wonder that Grammy-nominated recording artist Tina Adair ended up in the music profession. Before she was born her mom and dad, Debra and Jerry, had formed their own bluegrass band Bluegrass Edition, and at one point even owned a music store, which gave their daughter a chance to sample from among the smorgasbord of instruments. Not long after learning to talk, Tina started singing and by age 3, she was standing on stage. “I sang the John Anderson song, ‘Swingin’,” Adair remembers. “I’m not sure that was appropriate for a three-year-old to be singing at the time,” she adds, laughing, “but it was my very first time on stage, and I just fell in love with being on stage and with singing.” Adair began tinkering around on a ¼ sized guitar and the fiddle during her elementary school years, but when she joined the family band, Bluegrass Edition, as a teen, Tina t