HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?

SHERIE RAE PARKER is beginning the new year, 2006, in Berlin, Germany, performing in a new show produced by Bernhard Kurz … Once again the fabulous Bette Midler impersonator takes Europe by Storm!

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Born in Detroit, and raised in the San Fernando Valley, her education centered on her music, songwriting, drama, dance, guitar, voice and the arts. She studied at Dick Grove Music Workshops as well as Pierce College, CSUN and Clark County Community College in Las Vegas,

By the time she was 14, she sang her first professional recording for Screen Gems… “I Didn’t Know The World Would End This Way” was the title…but her life and career were just beginning. At 15 she formed her own band and they played the club circuit around the LA area for 10 years.

At 18, Sherie earned her private pilot’s license and worked at Van Nuys airport renting out airplanes. Parents Bea and Leo bought an airplane and the whole family started flying!

In 1983, she moved to Las Vegas to join the original cast of “Legends in Concert” at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino…Although at that time she was performing as the late rock star Janis Joplin. It wasn’t until July 1990 that Miss “M” was born inside the divine Miss Sherie Rae!

Engagements lasting from weeks to months and years took the Bette Midler impersonator from Las Vegas to cities and countries around the world! Major production shows, to name a few: “Legends in Concert”, “American Superstars”, “Stars in Concert” (in Berlin), “Serendipity”- a musical comedy, “A Really Big Shew” and “Tribute the Concert” have made Sherie their best Bette.

“I feel a special closeness to Bette.” Sherie Rae remarks. “Our voices are a lot alike. I love her humor and energy on the stage! Her style and ability to take me to another place…It’s always a challenge! I am definitely having a great time!”

REVIEWS of her performances have always credited her.

“Will the real Bette Midler please stand up? Star power on stage. The audience is in for a true treat. Sherie Rae bears an uncanny resemblance to the vivacious diva and reproduces Midler’s bawdy sense of humor as well as her vocal acrobatics to perfection.” That’s what What’s On magazine had to say.

Fun and Gaming wrote “It’s immediately obvious that Rae has sass to burn and fits the Midler mold perfectly. Sherie Rae manages such a powerful performance as Bette Midler that she actually ends up on the floor during an emotion packed ‘Stay With Me Baby’. Her ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ will send chills up the most jaded show go-er’s spine.”

The Laughlin Entertainer said: “The closer for “A Really Big Shew” is Sherie Rae Parker delivering a saucy Bette Midler. Parker is up to the task of taking on the Divine Miss M and all her flamboyance. With enough of the look to get audiences to buy into the willing suspension of disbelief, Parker minces across the stage, delivering short-breathed bawdy jokes, aka Midler doing Sophie Tucker. She plays the audience just as Midler would do and she plays off the deprecating humor that Midler elevated to an art form. But it is the voice that takes Parkers act beyond the norm. With a voice that literally jumps out of the microphone, she does Midler better than Midler. Her take on “Wind Beneath My Wings” actually breathes new life into that overused song and it soars anew. And in the set we caught, she belted out a wrenching and soulful “When A Man Loves A Woman” to the point it was easy to imagine (and eager to wish for) Parker sliding into a take on Janis Joplin. The lady’s voice has game.”

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“I always knew I’d grow up to be somebody…who knew I’d grow up to be somebody else!”

Sherie Rae is married to Carroll (Beav) Parker, a drummer and celebrity impersonator of Ringo Starr. They have a son named Collin and live in Las Vegas, Nevada.