Biography
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Born
18 March 1953 (age 72)
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Born In
Madison County, North Carolina, United States
Sheila Kay Adams is an American folk musician from the Sodom Laurel community in Madison County, North Carolina.
Adams learned to sing from her great-aunt Dellie Chandler Norton and other notable singers in the community such as Dillard Chandler and members of the Wallin Family. She began performing in public in her teens, and throughout her career she has performed at festivals, events, music camps, and workshops around the United States and the United Kingdom.
Adams performs ballads from English, Scottish, and Irish traditions as she learned them from her ancestors, as well as innovating other tunes with a signature drop-thumb clawhammer style on the five-string banjo.
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