This is a land of beauty and purity light

Just across that river where there is no night

There will have a beautiful open ground

When I lay my heavy bird-uns down

When in his breathes I lay all my birds down This is Heaven Bent.

I'm Tara Jean Stevens.

If you're familiar with season three, you know that Sharon K. Edwards grew up singing in the

Pentecostal church in Tennessee.

But on this season three bonus episode, something you probably don't know about her yet,

and that's that Sharon grew up not just wanting to sing in church,

Sharon wanted to be a Christian music recording artist.

We're about to hear about her hustle to make that happen in Nashville, and why in the end,

that dream never came true.

And this dream was definitely fostered when Sharon was a teenager, at a time in her life

when she was absolutely all in for Jesus, when she was also singing in a gospel girl group with her

sister, Didi, and her second cousin, Amy, David Terry's daughter. Sharon's actually pretty sure

she can remember the very first time that her and Didy and Amy sang together.

I feel like it was Wilson Phillips.

And I don't know if it was the first time we sang in free part harmony,

but I do have this memory that's early with us being back in the Sunday school room,

just hanging out for some reason.

And I don't know if it was like some work day at the church

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