Growing up in Ft. Worth, Texas, Cynda Bennett 

couldn’t help but be surrounded by the sounds of

country music. One might think with this kind of

environmental backdrop, combined with the fact

that Cynda played guitar & piano and sang for

the church youth group & school choir, that

becoming a country singer might have been a

childhood dream; but this was not the case

for Cynda.

 

Quiet & shy in her younger years, but still yearning to

sing, she eventually fought back her stage fright

and started pursuing stage roles in musical theatre,

which is how she first began to refine her performing

skills.

 

But not until after graduating college, moving to

Missouri & getting married, did her Texas musical

roots begin to surface.  Cynda started singing at a

few of the local opry shows, where her strong voice

and range of singing styles (that can embrace

everything from traditional country, to power ballads,

to even a little southern-fried blues) was well received

and she soon landed herself a job as the lead singer

in a country covers band.  It was a good fit. 

 

Several years and honky tonks later, Cynda and her

band AGAINST the GRAIN became a fixture

throughout the regional Midwest, opening for several

major country headliners. She also was developing

her songwriting skills and began to perform

more & more original material with her band.

 

During these years Cynda was cast in the lead role

for a national touring company production

of the off-Broadway hit, COWGIRLS, the perfect

little gem of a musical which showcased her talents

in both genres of country music and musical theatre. 

The Dallas Morning News said that Cynda was

“The show’s strongest performer, played with a

convincing country-western contralto

swagger.”  Her touching ballad near the

end “shines as a true country moment.”

 

 

Not too long after the national tour, Cynda decided

she had collected enough original material to

pursue an album project.   Co-produced by

Mark Alan Thompson of ATP Records, two singles

were released from her  self-titled debut album,

and both topped Indie charts, and made a good

showing on the New Music Weekly chart.  Her

blue grass ballad, “Widow’s Prayer” which she

co-wrote with her manager, was reviewed by

Robert  K. Oermann, of Music Row Magazine.

Here’s what he had to say:  A mandolin

embellished waltz with a deeply touching

and extremely well written lyric of a woman

at her dying husband’s bedside.  You’d have

to be made of stone to resist something

this heartfelt.”

 

Though she is as comfortable on stage as she is in

front of the camera, also working as a broadcast

actor, lending her voice and face to Television &

Radio Commercials, Cynda loves to be in the

studio and has recently been recording again. 

Teaming once more with Mark Alan Thompson,

a soon to be released new single is on the horizon. 

Keep your eyes and ears open for exciting things

to come from Cynda Bennett.