ANITA COCHRAN
Singer · Songwriter · Producer · Guitarist · Emmy award winner. Everything press, promoters and talent buyers need in one place.
#1
Billboard hit “What If I Said” — sole writer
1st
Woman to write, sing, produce & play lead guitar on a debut
2025
Emmy Award-winning documentary special
4.2M
Largest live audience
Coming Fall 2026
Full Circle on BMG Records
Anita's next chapter arrives in fall 2026 with Full Circle, a new project released on BMG Records. The release brings together a new CD and video collection, and is accompanied by a documentary film and autobiography. US tour dates to be announced shortly.
Biography
Named after Anita Carter of the Carter Family, Anita grew up in a Michigan family band and mastered guitar, banjo, mandolin, dobro, steel, bass, piano and drums. In 1997 her Warner Bros. debut Back To You made her the first woman in country music history to write, sing, produce and play multiple instruments — including lead guitar — on a debut album.
Her self-penned duet with Steve Wariner, “What If I Said,” hit #1 across the US and Canada and earned CMA and ACM nominations. In 2004 she made history again recording a brand-new song with the voice of the late Conway Twitty.
After a 2018 breast cancer diagnosis she wrote the award-winning anthem “Fight Like A Girl,” performed it on Good Morning America with Robin Roberts, and founded The Love Anchors Fund. Today she tours the US and abroad and was featured in the 2025 Emmy Award-winning documentary special Still Playin' Possum.
Milestones
- 2026Continues to tour. New video and new music coming fall 2026.
- 2025Emmy winner — featured performer, Still Playin' Possum: Music & Memories of George Jones (documentary)
- 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
- 2018Best Music Video, Creation International Film Festival — “Fight Like A Girl”; founded The Love Anchors Fund
- 2004First artist to record a brand-new song with a deceased artist (Conway Twitty)
- 2000Released 2nd album, “Anita.” Acting debut in The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood.
- 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.
- 1997Released debut album, “Back to You.”
Press Photos
High-resolution images available on request from management.
Videos
Fight Like A Girl — Official Video
NFL Thursday Night Halftime
Live on Good Morning America
“Cancer diagnosis leads singer to ‘fight like a girl.’”
“Anita Cochran returns to the stage and continues to be inspiration for all.”
“Cochran celebrates cancer treatment's end in style.”
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