"Sheila Stephen;  Singer, Songwriter, Entertainer

and Radio Personality"

Sheila is a Bloomington, IN. native who is hometown through and through. A former Miss Indiana (1987), Sheila has matured into a nationally recognized singer and songwriter. Her seasoned God given talent and positive attitude have brought her many awards in national talent contests as well as a talent award in the Miss America Pageant.
Her songwriting achievements include  "New Fool At An Old Game" a #1 Hit for Reba McEntire, a song, "Honky Tonk Leave Him Alone" recorded by Loretta Lynn, and a staff writing position at EMI Music Publishing in Nashville, TN. 
Sheila began performing at the tender age of 13  in talent shows at her middle school.  Only escalating from there, her desire to bring music to people's lives has taken her down a very musical path.  After graduating from high school, Sheila emplored her mom, Linda, to help her put a band together. So in October of 1982 Sheila Stephen and "Shuffle Creek" performed for the first time in public.   Since then, Sheila renamed her band "Crazy Heart", after the first song she ever recorded in Nashville Tn..  Many band members have come and gone, but the constant force in her band has been the presence of her Dad, Tony and Brother, Randy.   Since that first performance in 1982, Sheila and her band have traveled all over the midwest and beyond leaving behind a trail of adoring fans. Sheila is a World Class Entertainer!   Above and beyond her natural talent for rendering songs, (from heartfelt conception through emotion filled conclusion) her live performance is unmatched. She has had the opportunity to open for many of the greatest coutry legends of all time including Mel Tillis, Waylon Jennings, George Strait, Charley Pride and the late Tammy Wynette.   After meeting Eddie Rabbitt in 1985, Sheila was fortunate enough to appear with Rabbitt on his live shows singing his #1 hit duet, "You and I", with him.  It was Eddie Rabbitt who first encouraged Stephen to move to Nashville, Tennessee and pursue a career as a songwriter.  So in 1994 she did just that.  Her days were spent beating the Music Row streets making connections with some of the Rows greatest songwriters.  That eventually led her to EMI Music Publishing, the largest publisher in the world, where she signed her first deal as a songwriter.  Sheila quickly became one of Nashville's busiest demo singers as well, doing demo work for all of the biggest publishers and writers in town.  This caught the eye of the EMI production staff and they decided to take Stephen in the studio and cut sides on her to pitch to the major labels.  Sheila's stylistic rendering brought many of Nashville's industry insiders on to the Sheila Stephen bandwagon. All the while she would travel each weekend to perform Fridays and Saturdays at her Red Barn Jamboree music theater in Nashville, IN. This was where she honed her skills and created a fan base rivaled by none.  Although she is able to perform several different styles of music, her passion is "Traditional Country" music.  But with the current direction of country music headed down the "pop" road, the recording industry wanted Sheila to compromise her style and become like the many female pop artists that now saturate country radio.  Stephen wouldn't budge, her belief that there is still a desire by the fans to hear great country music wouldn't let her change her course.   So, that led her back to Bloomington, Indiana where she is now co-hosting the morning show and hosts her own all-request show weekdays on the area's #1 radio station, WGCT Big Red Country 105.  And you guessed it, the stations format is the greatest classic and traditional country music of the last 5 decades!  Although Nashville never signed her to a major recording contract, (according to Music City, she was "too country"!),  Sheila is still traveling the midwest with her band, Crazy Heart, and continues to travel to Nashville to write and record her own music.