Lari White, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Lari Michele White Cannon (, LAH-ree; May 13, 1965 – January 23, 2018) was an American country music singer-songwriter and actress. She gained national attention in 1988 as a winner on You Can Be a Star, a talent competition on the former The Nashville Network (TNN). After an unsuccessful stint on Capitol Records, she recorded four albums for RCA Records Nashville and one for the defunct Lyric Street Records between 1993 and 1999. Her most commercially successful album was 1994's Wishes, which charted three top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: "That's My Baby", "Now I Know", and "That's How You Know (When You're in Love)".
She has also produced albums for Toby Keith and Billy Dean, and has written singles for Danny Gokey and Sarah Buxton. In addition to her singing and songwriting career, she has acted in movies and her own cabaret production, My First Affair. White was also married to songwriter Chuck Cannon until her death from peritoneal cancer in 2018.