Sonya Isaacs, the mandolin player and vocalist for the Isaacs. During her solo adventure with country label Lyric Street Records, where she recorded two albums, one produced by Vince Gill, who she also toured with, she began writing songs professionally. She has had many recorded by Trisha Yearwood, Leann Rimes, Martina McBride, Vince Gill, Sara Evans and others along with numerous bluegrass and gospel cuts. Sonya has won several Dove Awards for her songwriting. For many years running, she has been nominated in the female vocalist (and other) categories from the IBMA, SGMA, and CCMA and has won numerous awards in all genres. She recently won instrumentalist of the year from the SGMA’s Singing News Awards. She is a frequent contributor to singing backing vocals for such artists like Reba, Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill and Carly Pearce to name a few. Often kids will recognize her as a background vocalist for Miley Cyrus in the Hannah Montana movie. She has also appeared on the soundtracks on the Disney Films Geppetto, My Neighbor Totoro and Monster’s Inc. She is married to singer/songwriter Jimmy Yeary and they have two sons, Ayden & Gatlyn and a daughter Evya.