| Cyndi Thomson: She's Diva Bound |
| Cyndi Thomson's debut single, "What I Really Meant To Say," is saying plenty! The song, sung and co-written by the Georgia newcomer, captured the No.1 spot on the charts, unseating Toby Keith's "I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight." Nuff said? -Country Weekly |
| Welcome to her world The album, I'm just so proud of it. And it's been a quick journey in Nashville's eyes, I think, of how I got here, but a long journey to me, because I've wanted it since I was 12. But it's been worth every minute of the struggles, of the crying, of the aching inside, of the happiness. It's been worth every emotion that I've experienced. And I love writing now. I just love it. |
| The next single, "I Always Liked That Best will go for ads in late October. |
| Songwriting 101 I went to Barbara Orbison's publishing company. I got a new outfit--at the Express. I felt really good about myself. Businesslike, but still a little cool-looking, like an artist would. And I went in, and I sat down across from songwriter Tommy Lee James, and I said, 'Look.' I just told him everything about myself--that I believed in myself, that I was determined, that I was a hard worker, that I needed help..On the way there--I was like 'This is it for me. If I don't convince this person that they need me, then what? I'm not good at what I do. I shouldn't be here. I should go home.' I just...placed pressure on myself...And he goes, 'OK, would you like to write next week? I'm writing with Jennifer Kimball.' They're bot No.1 songwriters. Never written a song in my life. I said 'Sure.' So, I think it was on a Wednesday. I was so scared, because I had written poetry--in fourth grade, I had won a poetry contest about flowers, you know. I had a little foundation there, but nothing like songwriting. |
| Cyndi will be on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno' this coming Monday, October 1! |
| Billboard Country Charts~Cyndi is the first country female artist to top the Billboard Country Singles for three weeks with a debut single since Faith Hill's "Wild One" in 1993. |
| Cyndi Thomson had to work for her musical entertainment - her parents sent her on a Christmas-day scavenger hunt through the house to find her new CD player. "It's really hard to surprise me, 'cause I always figure everything out," she explains. "But they got me good that year. They hid it in the attic!" -Country Weekly |
| From the Country Music Editor of R & R (in today's Country Hot Fax): "Celebrating another week at no. 1, the debut single from Capitol's Cyndi Thomson has been the most-played song for the past three weeks - a feat never before accomplished in the history of R & R Country (which debuted in October, 1973). (Of course, Thomson's hit "What I Really Meant To Say" has officially been number one for two weeks, since R & R did not publish a chart the week after the terrorist attacks. According to Mediabase's tracking of that week, however, it was indeed the most-played tune.) In fact, as far as I have been able to discern, no debut single from a female artist has even stayed at number one on the R & R Country chart for more than one week. Either way, Cyndi's single is a real record-breaker!" |
| Breakouts Success is sweet for the year's top new stars Every wannabe star hears about the million-to-one odds against making it in the music business. For the few who beat those odds, victory is sweet indeed. "There is a small bit of vindication," admits Georgia-born Cyndi Thomson, whose smash "What I Really Meant To Say" catapulted her to fame. "When I remember the conversations I had with certain people, and the lectures I got, it is vindication to say - not, 'I told you so,' but 'do you believe me now?''' -Country Weekly |