 In dealing with SHeDAISY, it's best to expect the unexpected. These are three young women who push musical boundaries as hard as they push themselves and the result is THE WHOLE SHeBANG, a debut CD that is as fresh as it is impressive. "Sometimes we sit down and say, 'what's the weirdest harmony we can sing here that will work?"' says Kristyn Osborn, the oldest of the three sisters who make up the trio. It's an approach that makes for some of the most scintillating harmonies in country or any other genre of music, and it's an approach that permeates everything they do. Rest assured there is nothing ordinary about their approach to music. Kristyn, Kelsi and Kassidy Osborn are the children of a small businessman and a housewife. They were raised near Magna, Utah, a town outside Salt Lake City that is, according to Kassidy, "a great place to grow up." "It's a town where there are more big trucks and Wranglers and hats and belt buckles than you have ever seen," adds Kristyn. "It's a rodeo town and that's what a lot of our friends were into." "We're what we call a 'Disneyland family'," says Kristyn. "We'd take a yearly vacation to Disneyland in a station wagon with wood paneling, and you had my parents playing eight-track tapes. It was either show tunes, classical music, the Beatles or the Beach Boys, except every now and then we'd get Steppenwolf, because that was my Dad's thing." By the time Kristyn graduated from high school, she saw that her sisters had something worth joining and the trio was complete. What began as a theme/variety show, featuring all kinds of music and using costumes sewn by the kids' mother, eventually became country with soaring three-part harmonies. Their road has been made that much easier by the support of relatives and friends. Even the name of the trio, SHeDAISY, was taken from a Native American word meaning "my sisters." In fact, during the recording of THE WHOLE SHeBANG, the girls filled a studio with messages of love and support they received from home. The support has helped SHeDAISY turn a passion into a career, and they in turn are bringing that passion to country music. Given their unique and engaging sound, country music will be the richer for it.
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