Kassidy's sisters are 37-year-old Kristyn Osborn and 33-year-old Kelsi Osborn, and since 1999, the trio of sisters have scored one platinum and two gold albums. They've also charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. One song, "I Will . . . But," reached the No. 2 spot. In all, they're sold more than 3 million albums.
Much of the time, best-of albums are released by record companies trying to milk their artists for all they're worth before dropping them. But Kassidy said it wasn't like that - they continue to enjoy being on Nashville's Lyric Street Records and are recording a new album for the label.
"SHeDAISY holds a special, if not imperative, place here at Lyric Street Records as they were our first new artist release," said Randy Goodman, president of Lyric Street Records. "They have, in my opinion, the ability to knock it out of the park with any release and this, 'Best Of,' is in many ways a reminder of how great a catalogue they have built and will continue to do so."
A tour will follow the next studio album, which might be released in summer with a single in May.
As for this best-of album, "We wanted to get all of our singles on one CD," Kassidy said.
Most thirtysomethings don't achieve a body of work deserving a compilation album, but Kassidy said, "We've been doing this for some time - nine years."
Music has been a part of their lives a lot more than nine years for the ladies, who were singing at an early age, going by the name of the Osborn Sisters. They sang at Utah Jazz home games and moved to Nashville to get a break.
They were signed by RCA in the late 1990s, but the company never released their record. They changed their name to SHeDAISY - it means "my sister" in Navajo - and signed with Lyric Street shortly thereafter.
SHeDAISY's first album, in 1999, "The Whole SHeBANG," went platinum and spawned four hit singles, and since then the sisters have had continued success, even when Kelsi became pregnant and gave birth to twin girls in 2006. They recruited younger sister Karli to take her place until Kelsi came back.
Now, all of the Osborn siblings except for one live in Nashville. A brother lives in the Salt Lake area, as well as most of their immediate and extended family. Their parents normally live in Utah, too, though now they are on a two-year church mission in Australia.
"Utah will always be my home," Kassidy said. "You can't ski at all here."
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