Daily Discovery: Kristy Lee Cook, “Airborne Ranger Infantry”

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ARTIST: Kristy Lee Cook

SONG:Airborne Ranger Infantry

BIRTHDATE: 01/18/1984

BIRTHPLACE: Seattle, Washington (Swedish Hospital)

AMBITIONS: To make great music, live my dream and help others as much as I can. I want to do more charity work and give back to those in need.

TURN-OFFS: Cheaters, liars, conceited people, selfish ambitions, arrogance.

TURN-ONS: Sounds weird I know, but I have a weak nose, and I LOVE a good cologne!

DREAM GIG: I would LOVE to play at the Superbowl one day!

TV ADDICTIONS: The Voice, Nashville, Criminal Minds, Law & Order: SVU.

CELEBRITY CRUSH: I don’t really have any.

MY GO TO FEEL-GOOD RECIPE: I like baking cookies, specifically my grandma’s recipe of Ice Box Cookies!

WORDS TO LIVE BY: 2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we live by Faith, not by Sight.” Also, I love the saying ” What is right is not always popular, what is popular is not always right.”

I NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT: my stuffed animal! I travel everywhere with it. I think it’s a comfort thing because I can’t take my horses and dog’s on the road with me. Don’t Laugh!

I WROTE THIS SONG: from poems that my dad wrote while he was serving during the extraction period of the Vietnam War. I wanted to tell a story from a soldiers’ perspective and make it as real as I could. Originally I wrote it for my dad, but when I realized the impact it was having on people, it just became so much more. It truly became a way that for me to give thanks to our men and women in arms.