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1993
The tie, exactly: Joy Lynn White's family came to Mishawaka when she was three years old; she grew up here and graduated from Mishawaka High School before Nashville — a raised-here tie at full strength, printed whole in the People section. Her performing and recording career is Nashville's; the formation is this city's.
The honor: In 1993, at the 28th Academy of Country Music Awards, White was nominated for Top New Female Vocalist, the Academy's newcomer honor for women, on the strength of her debut album Between Midnight & Hindsight. The Academy's own winners record gives the year's award to Michelle Wright, and the ledger prints White's line at nomination size. The distinction is the ledger's whole method, and it is kept even where keeping it costs the entry a little shine.
Sources:
- Academy of Country Music (acmcountry.com), winners record — Top New Female Vocalist, 1993: Michelle Wright.
- Joy Lynn White, artist awards record — the 1993 Academy of Country Music Top New Female Vocalist nomination; contemporary review of Between Midnight & Hindsight (Ann Arbor District Library review collection) noting the nomination.
- The People section of this history — the move to Mishawaka at age three and the Mishawaka High School graduation.