<Tr> <Th> Labels </Th> <Td> MCA, Warner Bros., Canaan, Morning Gate </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Associated acts </Th> <Td> Ed Penney, George Jones </Td> </Tr> <P> Teresa Fay Gibbs (born June 15, 1954) is an American country music artist who is blind . Between 1980 and 2017 she's recorded eleven studio albums, including four for MCA Records and one for Warner Bros. Records . She also charted 13 singles on the Billboard country singles charts in that timespan, including her debut single "Somebody's Knockin"', which reached No. 8 on the country charts, No. 13 on the pop charts and No. 3 on the Adult Contemporary charts . She also entered the country top 20 with "Rich Man", "Mis'ry River", "Ashes to Ashes" and "Anybody Else's Heart but Mine ." </P> <P> Gibbs was born in Miami, Florida, but raised in the Augusta, Georgia, suburb of Grovetown . Although born with eyesight, she lost it as a newborn due to an incubator accident . Despite her blindness, she learned to play piano at age three . As a child, she sang in the church choir and at talent contests, and at age seventeen, she opened for Bill Anderson . Her parents wanted her to be treated no differently from sighted people and she was sent to public school, graduating from Butler High School in Augusta in 1972 . She performed in and around the Augusta area and eventually, she met Chet Atkins, who advised her to move to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a country music career, which she did at age eighteen . After failing to find a record deal, she returned to Miami and joined a band called Sound Dimension . She continued to perform locally, later forming a band called the Terri Gibbs Trio, which performed at a Steak and Ale in Augusta, Georgia . Gibbs then sent a demo tape to record producer Ed Penney of MCA Records, signing to the label in 1980 . Penney was a former Boston disc jockey and a long - time songwriter . He liked her voice on her demo, but felt she needed stronger material . He co-wrote "Somebody's Knockin"' for her and also produced the song . </P>

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