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Brittney Owens was born on August 22, 1987 in Cumberland, MD. She was raised in Fort Ashby, West Virginia. Her mother, Lois Owens, and father, Jerry Owens, divorced when she was just 4 years old. She lived in a trailer with her mother for the first 7 years of her life. They later moved into a house that they built on the same property where she currently resides.

Home Life

Brittney lives at home with her mother and her cat, Virtute. She graduated from Frankfort High School in 2005. In July of 2006 she got a job working in the frozen food department of the local Wal-Mart in Keyser, West Virginia. She did not like this job very much and in August of 2006 she got a job at a call center called ACS in Frostburg, Maryland. She sits next to her co-worker and fellow West Virgina resident Amanda Mongold. She doesn't like this job much, either, but she is waiting on something better to come along.

Music

Brittney started getting into music at an early age, and at the age of 4 she knew she wanted to be a musician. At the age of 10 she picked up the saxaphone and at the age of 11 she put it back down. For her 14th Christmas her father bought her a Samick electric guitar and she began to take lessons with John Gauthier at a local Cumberland, Maryland music shop, Kauffman's Music. At the age of 19 she began teaching guitar lessons herself for Kauffman's Music but quickly realized she did not like being a teacher. She quit the job shortly thereafter.

I Forget

Brittney is cirrently a member of local Fort Ashby band, I Forget. The band consists of Owens vocals/guitar, Shane Sours vocals/bass, and Kyle Wagoner drums/vocals. In March 2008 they realeased their Freshman album "We Ride!" produced by Jason Crawford.