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Published June 24, 2006 10:59 pm - Strong voice amazes those who hear 12-year-old sing Wishing on a star Bremen pre-teen, family work on building singing career By Gail Crutchfield BREMEN — Greg Harrison said he and his wife, Darlene, hear it all the time. "Now, did I hear you correctly? Did you say she was only 11 years old?"
People are amazed, he said, when they hear their now 12-year-old daughter Jordan belt out a country song. On Tuesday, she'll visit Children's Hospital in Birmingham to entertain patients and staff there. Then, at the end of the week, the family — including older sister Jessica, 16, and younger sister Morgan, 7, — will head to Nashville. Jordan will be performing three one-hour shows at the national convention of the Gold Wind Road Rider's Association at the Opryland Hotel. Jordan made her first public performance in the fourth grade when she sang as a reigning queen at a Corner school pageant. She was then asked to sing at the high school pageant later that night, said her father, who teaches at Corner High School. Darlene Harrison teaches at Sumiton. While that was her first public performance, Jordan's parents said she always loved to sing, even before she developed her strong and talented voice. Her love of country music came naturally, passed down from her grandfather, the late Coy Harrison, and her father. "My dad kept her when she was little," Greg said. "The next thing we knew, she was hooked on coffee and country music." Her "Pop" taught her many of the old country music songs by Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton. "He would sing them to me and told me he wanted me to learn them eventually," Jordan said. She also learned some of Tammy Wynette's songs, but many of those, like D-I-V-O-R-C-E, didn't fit an 8-year-old girl. She would also sing, and quite loudly, in church, her mother said. "When she was little and singing in the congregation at church, we told her not to sing so loud, so that God could hear everybody, but mainly because she sang so poorly," Darlene said with a laugh. Jordan was born tongue-tied and had inner ear problems. Both contributed to her early lack of singing skills. Both were fixed when she was 10 months old, eliminating the need for speech therapy as she aged. "And now she hasn't shut up since," Greg said. "She sings all the time," said Darlene. "In the shower, in the car, everywhere." Greg said no matter how bad a day he's had, he can come home, sit on the couch downstairs and listen as she sings in the loft above the living room. 
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