Teresa Fay Gibbs Daughtry was born in Miami, Fla., on June 15, 1954. Her family moved back to the Grovetown, Ga., area near Augusta when she was about 1-year-old. She was born briefly with sight but lost it due to an incubator accident.

She grew up singing gospel and country music in the Augusta area. Miss Gibbs' first MCA Records single, Somebody's Knockin', became an international country music sensation in 1981. That same year, she became the first artist ever to win the Country Music Association's Horizon Award for upcoming performers. She also won the Academy of Country Music's Best New Female Vocalist Award.

Miss Gibbs' debut MCA album, also named Somebody's Knockin', earned her a Grammy Award nomination in 1982. She appeared on major TV shows such as Solid Gold, American Bandstand and The Barbara Mandrell Show and in concert with the nation's top country stars.

Augusta's Butler High School, her 1972 alma mater, named its new music complex after her; the Georgia Lions Club honored her for outstanding achievement by a blind person; and she was selected as the first spokesperson for World Book talking cassettes encyclopedia for blind and visually impaired people.

Her gospel album, Turn Around, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1988.