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LeAnn Rimes (born Margaret LeAnn Rimes
on August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an
American country music singer. Rimes' debut single,
"Blue", was released when she was thirteen
years old, and by age 24 she had sold over 37 million
albums. She has won an American Music Award, two Grammy
Awards, three Academy of Country Music Awards, and
twelve Billboard Music Awards.
She holds three important records in the music industry,
as the current youngest person to win a Grammy and her
version of "How Do I Live" is currently the
longest charting song on the U.S. Hot 100 at 69 weeks.
This was the first multi-platinum country single,
selling over 3 million copies.
Biography: Guided by her guitar playing mother,
Rimes started singing and tap dancing at the age of two.
At age six, her family moved to Garland, Texas, and she
would later sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at
Dallas Cowboys games and at the National Cutting Horse
Championships in Fort Worth. By the age of eleven, she
recorded All That at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis,
New Mexico.
Later that year, Dallas disc jockey Bill Mack met Rimes
and promoted her for a re-release of "Blue", a
song he originally wrote in the 1960s. The song was a
hit, and at the age of 14, LeAnn Rimes became the
youngest person to ever win a Grammy, claiming both Best
New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance
both in 1997. Her album, Blue, sold more than 8 million
copies.
She recorded "How Do I Live" for the 1997 film
Con Air. Though her version was rejected by producers in
favor of Trisha Yearwood's rendition, it became the
first certified multi-platinum country single and holds
the record for most weeks spent on the Billboard U.S.
Hot 100.
Her third full-length studio project, You Light Up My
Life: Inspirational Songs debuted at #1 simultaneously
on the Billboard 200, Top Country Albums, and Christan
Albums charts. This was followed by several soundtracks
singles, including "Can't Fight the Moonlight"
for Coyote Ugly, and other recordings for the movies
Driven, View from the Top and Legally Blonde 2: Red,
White & Blonde.
Notable career setbacks began in the year 2000, when she
sued her father for misappropriating more than $7
million of her earnings. In 2002, she publicly denounced
the album I Need You, which her record label had
assembled from studio outtakes.
Prior to her 21st birthday, in 2003, Rimes released a
greatest hits album, simply called LeAnn Rimes Greatest
Hits. In 2004, the album was issued internationally
under the name The Best of LeAnn Rimes under a new track
listing.
On January 25, 2005, Rimes released This Woman. With
sales over 600,000, it was her best-selling album in
over five years, with "Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes
Sense", "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way",
and "Something's Gotta Give" all achieving the
top 5 on the country charts. "Something's Gotta
Give" earned LeAnn her third Grammy nomination for
Female Country Vocal Performance.
On June 6, 2006, Rimes released a new pop album in
Europe called Whatever We Wanna, led by the single
"And It Feels Like". Rimes co-wrote 10 out of
the 15 songs on the album. She will be releasing a new
Country album to the US on August 28th, 2007 entitled
Family.
Rimes has also recorded a duet with rock band Bon Jovi
for their next album Lost Highway, called "Til We
Ain't Strangers Anymore". This follows Bon Jovi's
similar country success in 2006 when "Who Says You
Can't Go Home", a duet with Jennifer Nettles, hit
the number one spot on the Hot Country charts. Rimes and
Jovi sung the song live on CMT Unplugged in June 2007.
Also, in early June 2007 LeAnn was chosen at the last
minute to record the leading song for the soundtrack of
Evan Almighty; the sequel to Bruce Almighty. The song is
Are You Ready For A Miracle; previously recorded by
Patti Labelle for Bruce Almighty.
This song is an upbeat gospel song which truly shows-off
Rimes' vocal ability, displaying her upper register with
a held F5 (the same note as Celine's All By Myself)
which lasts 10 seconds, as well as multiple G5's, of
which previously had only been heard by LeAnn back in
1997 on the duet with Bryan White "Let's Give Them
Something To Talk About". The song can be heard in
the end credits of Evan Almighty as well as in the
trailer for it.
Trivia:
- Rimes is mentioned in the Barenaked Ladies' 1998
hit "One Week" from their album Stunt:
...hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes, big like
LeAnn Rimes, because I'm all about value...
- Rimes was chosen to sing the theme song
"Light the Fire Within" for the Opening
Ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake
City.
- On February 23, 2002, she married Dean Sheremet, a
dancer whom she met while recording Twisted Angel.
They currently live in Nashville, Tennessee.
- In 2005, Rimes became the new host of the USA
Network reality tv series Nashville Star, a position
which she held for only one season.
- She was selected to sing "Remember
When," the official song for Disneyland's 50th
anniversary celebration.
- Rimes sang the theme song, "Twinkle in Her
Eye," for the cartoon Holly Hobbie in 2006.
- Rimes shares her birthday with Canadian-born
country singer Shania Twain and Australian-born
country singer Sherrié Austin.
- On June 14th, 2007. Rimes was selected to sing the
national anthem for the grand opening of Samsung
Austin Semicondutor Fab 2. She also sang at the
grand opening for the first fab located in Austin,
TX.
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