Donna Fargo double release of her first novel and Donna Fargo Live
By Alan Shipston for Country Music News International Magazine
Heartaches and Mind Storms is Donna Fargo’s first novel; a work of fiction filled with life lessons and practical advice. “Since Heartaches and Mind Storms is a novel, it’s fiction, but as the writer, I tried to fill the characters’ cups with lots of lessons about hope, love and joy that tests the heart and soul,” shares Donna. The fictional story surrounds life coach, Deidre Leigh, as she navigates, not only her clients’ problems, but her own tumultuous love life. With her strong convictions and faith, she is able to weather the storms and find true happiness. While on that journey with her clients, the protagonist confronts a variety of very real issues – weight loss, cheating husbands, spiritual awakening and juvenile delinquency. Fargo has written many inspirational books including, Trust In Yourself, To The Love Of My Life, I Prayed For You Today, 10 Golden Rules For Living In This Crazy, Mixed-Up World, I Thanked God For You Today, My Prayer For You, My Prayer For You, My Friend, and most recently, Everything Is Possible With God.
Donna Fargo established herself as a Grammy® award-winning singer, songwriter and performer with a platinum selling song she wrote called, The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. Her second single release called, Funny Face, won Donna the title of the first woman in country music history to have back-to-back million-selling singles, both self-penned. Some of her accolades include seven Academy of Country Music awards, five Billboard awards, four ASCAP awards and two National Association of Recording Merchandisers awards for best-selling artist. She has also been honored by the Country Music Association, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the Music Operators of America and was the first inductee into the North America Country Music Association’s International Hall of Fame.
In addition to the Robert J. Burton Award that she won for “Most Performed Song of the Year,” her most coveted awards as a writer are her Million-Air Awards, presented to writers of songs that achieve the blockbuster status of one million or more performances. Together, Donna as the writer and her husband Stan Silver as the publisher, have six Million-Air Awards and thirty BMI Awards. Her performance on a show at Carnegie Hall interested the Osmond family enough to produce the syndicated television variety show, The Donna Fargo Show. In 2009, the state of North Carolina named a highway after Donna and in 2010, she was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame.
Donna Fargo Live is a 14 track live album recorded at Whiskey Pete’s and features Fargo’s biggest hit songs. Among the collection is Funny Face, a number one world- wide hit that crossed from the country charts into the top of the pop charts. That Was Yesterday was a number one in the US and Canada and originally appeared on the album, Fargo Country. Another song peaking at number 2 is, Do I Love You, written by Paul Anka, adapted from a French language song. The album ends with a medley of Happiest Girl In The Whole USA and You Can’t Be A Beacon, a song that charted for eleven weeks until hitting the number one position.
From celebrated country music star and television personality to award winning author, Donna Fargo has led a life that few could ever eclipse. Her legion of fans around the world are currently petitioning for her inclusion in the Country Music Hall of Fame.