Complex sentence: Her father was a local bandleader and her mother a harmony-singing teacher, and as children, she and her younger sister Allison Moorer--later a country recording artist in her own right--sometimes joined their parents on-stage to sing along.
Split into simpler sentences: Her father was a local bandleader and her mother a harmony-singing teacher. As children, she and her younger sister Allison Moorer--later a country recording artist in her own right--sometimes joined their parents on-stage to sing along.