Biography
Fisher was originally from a farming family in Strathmore, California. Her father was the late Howard Fisher; her mother, Buzz Fisher-Burtner, still runs the farm that grows oranges for Sunkist. Juni Fisher now lives in Franklin, Tennessee, to where she moved in 1991.
She began singing while in elementary school, in a trio with her sisters. She started playing guitar at age seven and wrote her first song at age eight. She graduated from Strathmore High School and College of the Sequoias.
She has the highest regard for the Western ballad, which she has described as "a pure form of American folk music". Her musical influences early on included Marty Robbins, Joan Baez and Burl Ives.
She enjoys fly fishing in her spare time.
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