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Bio
THE CLIPPINGS FILE
National headlines, industry awards, and three decades of coverage — the paper trail of a trailblazer.
As featured in USA Today✦Entertainment Weekly✦CNN✦Esquire✦Guitar Player✦Chicago Tribune✦Country Weekly✦The Tennessean✦Taste of Country
Career Milestones
ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS & FIRSTS
Three decades of records broken, charts topped, and history made — the full career ledger.
“Maybe my journey can help people. I feel like a new purpose has been added to my life.”
— Anita Cochran
2026Continues to tour. New video and new music coming fall 2026.
2025Emmy winner — featured performer, Still Playin' Possum: Music & Memories of George Jones (documentary)
✦Continues to tour the US and performs internationally — France, Norway, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Poland and Mexico
2018Performed “Fight Like A Girl” on ABC's Good Morning America with Robin Roberts. First ever artist to close her performance in Times Square.
2018NFL Thursday Night Football halftime performance
2018Established her own breast cancer charity, The Love Anchors Fund
2018Winner of the Creation International Film Festival award for Best Music Video — “Fight Like A Girl”
2018Released the “Fight Like A Girl” single and video
2018Diagnosed with Triple Positive Invasive Carcinoma breast cancer
2012Released the “Snowing In My Hometown” single and video
2009Released the album Serenity
2007Produced Tammy Cochran's critically acclaimed release Where I Am
✦Musical Director for It's Only Make Believe, a musical about Conway Twitty's career
2004Made music history again — the first artist ever to record a brand new song with a deceased artist: “(I Wanna Hear) A Cheatin' Song” features the voice of country icon Conway Twitty and became Twitty's final Billboard Hot Country Songs appearance
2000Made her acting debut as Anita Blackwell in The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood as Tom Wopat's love interest. The film included four original songs from Anita, including the theme song, performed on-screen alongside Toby Keith
2000Released 2nd album, “Anita.”
2000Extensive NASCAR tour with Dale Earnhardt, General Motors, and Peter Max, promoting her new album.
1998Number 1, US and Canada, across all charts including Billboard and R&R, for 2 consecutive weeks — ‘What If I Said,’ written by Anita Cochran, duet with Steve Wariner. TNN fan voted awards — Vocal Collaboration of the Year winner. CMA and ACM nominations for vocal collaboration. CMA New Artist nomination. Gibson Best Female Guitar Player.
1997Made her Grand Ole Opry debut on May 17, 1997
1997Back To You reached #9 on Billboard Heatseekers
1997Back To You reached #173 on the Billboard 200
1997Back To You reached #24 on Billboard Top Country Albums
1997Showcased as a multi-instrumentalist on Back To You, including lead guitar, dobro, banjo and mandolin
1997Country music first — the first woman in Country Music history to produce, write, sing, and play multiple instruments — including lead guitar — on a debut album
1997Released debut album, “Back to You.”
Selected Coverage
IN THE PAPERS
A curated selection of press articles, interviews, and features covering Anita's career, artistry, and advocacy.
The Tennessean · July 2018Cancer diagnosis leads singer to 'fight like a girl'Taste of Country · September 2018Anita Cochran Celebrates a Milestone in Her Cancer JourneyGuitar Girl Magazine · November 2018“You Gotta Fight Like a Girl” — InterviewWide Open Country · July 2018Anita Cochran's Fight With Breast Cancer Inspires New SongWKRN News 2 Nashville · October 2018Singer, songwriter Anita Cochran 'Fights Like a Girl' to beat cancerUnRated Magazine · September 2019Anita Cochran Returns To The Stage And Continues To Be Inspiration For AllVanderbilt Health News · October 2018Cochran celebrates cancer treatment's end in styleCountryZone.net · September 2012“I Love That European Fans Study Our Music” — InterviewThe Ledger (Lakeland, FL) · October 2023Country star Anita Cochran to appear at Lakeland breast cancer eventWSM — Coffee, Country & Cody · February 2025Anita Cochran live in-studio appearance
AWARDS & HONORS
1997Grand Ole Opry debut — May 17, 1997
1998#1 single “What If I Said” — Billboard & all US/Canada radio charts
1998#1 video on CMT and GAC
1998TNN/Music City News People's Choice Award — Vocal Collaboration of the Year (winner)
1998CMA nomination — Vocal Event of the Year
1998ACM nomination — Vocal Collaboration
1998TNN nomination — Female Star of Tomorrow
1998Gibson Guitar Award — Best Female Guitar Player (winner)
1998BMI #1 Awards — Artist, Songwriter, and Producer
2018Creation International Film Festival — Best Music Video, “Fight Like A Girl” (winner)
Today
Cancer-free and back on the road, Anita continues to tour the US and internationally, and mentors through her story and songs — a living testament that the fight is worth it.