Jill King   -  Biography

Jill King grew up in the tiny northern Alabama farming town of Arab, population 6,000. She began singing at age 3 in the church her grandfather helped to build. Her mother, Tobie, took her to pageants just about every weekend until she was 11. In 1984, she won the title of World's Our Little Miss, the equivalent of Miss America for young girls.

In 1992, she left Arab for Vanderbilt University in Nashville to pursue a bachelor's degree in English. Five years later, she landed a position as a songwriter for Gate to Gate Publishing.

She sang at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge on lower Broadway in Nashville on Monday nights for more than a year and has opened shows for T. Graham Brown and Cledus T. Judd. In 2003, Blue Diamond Records issued her first album, with the single "One Mississippi."