Tammy Cochran was a Country singer born and raised in a small rural town called Austinburg, Ohio, which according to Tammy was a perfect place to write a country song. There was also enough tragedy in Cochran's life to write a country song.

She was born in 1972 to Mabel and Delmar Cochran and was the third of three children. Tammy's two older brothers, Shawn and Alan were both born with the disease Cystic Fibrosis. Shawn died from the disease in 1980, at only 14 years of age. Alan died in 1991 at age 23. Her brothers lives and illness touched Tammy in a way that she expresses in her music. Her father taught Tammy the words to her first song "Heartaches By the Number". She soon became accustomed to listening to and singing the songs of Loretta Lynn and Barbara Mandrell. Encouraged and inspired by her brothers, Tammy realized that she preferred singing in front of an audience. For the next few years, Tammy sang at her family's local church, and then she entered a talent show contest and won. The next step for Tammy was to join a band. She joined a couple before making her own band called "TC Country" that played at fairs and weddings.

She knew that it could be impossible to enter the music business, so Cochran finished high school with a diploma and took vocational training to become a secretary. She then moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1991. For a couple years she tried to make it as a country artist, trying to make a name for herself down there but having no real luck. In 1996, she married and gave up her dreams. However, the marriage didn't last long and ended in divorce.