Lorine was born and raised near Temple, Texas. She loved music since she was a little girl and was determined to play a musical instrument. She received her first accordion, a diatonic Hohner, as a sixteen year-older, and although there was no accordion teacher in the vicinity, that did not deter her from playing and learning on her own. Later when Lorine married and was expecting her first child she started playing her beloved accordion in nursing homes, with her husband playing the guitar. As her children grew her son and daughter joined the family band playing the drums and saxophone. Later the Smith family band evolved into The Music Note, a group that performed together for twenty years. In 1982, when Lorine was diagnosed with cancer she asked the doctor what she should do about the accordion and the doctor responded "If it makes you feel good, you should play the hell out of that accordion." Lorine has taken the doctor's orders to heart, she still plays her accordion in nursing homes in the Houston area, sometimes alone, and sometimes in the company of her friends Sharon Billings and Victor Pozzerle. Lorine loves polkas, waltzes, country western and religious music. She takes life one at the time and never forgets to have her daily requirement of FUN.