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Jorie
was raised in a musical home. Jorie's
father, E.V. Medley was born in
Catoosa,
Oklahoma
but moved to
the Marshall,
Arkansas
area where he met and married her mother,
MaryAnn Ford.
Mary,
a Cherokee, had moved around quite a bit in her life because of
the difficulties her family encountered from folks that did not
want an Indian family in the community. After they
married, they moved on to
California
where Mary gave birth to JoAnn, TurtleBear, and Jorie.
She raised her
little family in Riverside
and San
Bernardino
Counties and spent
the rest of her life there. The Medley family sang in
local churches for many years and Jorie's first singing
"gig", at the age of three, was standing on top of an orange crate
box at a radio station (KPRO) in
Riverside,
California.
Her brother, John Medley aka TurtleBear, now resides in
Moreno
Valley,
California
and is also still singing. They sing together, ocassionally,
when their schedules allow.
Jorie
moved to Hawaii
with her father and daughter, Carrie, in 1995 while Christie was
attending college in California.
Christie, who developed an exceptional ear for harmony at a
very early age, moved
to Hawaii
in 1997 and joined her mother as a studio
musician. They began singing together
in Hawaiian bands and worship teams and traveled as Ambassadors
of the Aloha Spirit to
Australia,
New
Zealand
and the West Coast of Mainland,
USA. In
August of 2006, they moved to
Texas
to begin their fulltime ministry.


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