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LeAnn Rimes

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LeAnn Rimes

Margaret LeAnn Rimes (born 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 [1] , selling over 3 million copies.

Contents

1 Biography

2 Discography

2.1 Albums

2.2 Singles

3 References

4 External links

Background information

Birth name

Margaret LeAnn Rimes

Aug ust 28, 1982

Born

Origin

Jackson, Mississippi

Genre(s)

Country

Pop

Soul

Biography

Years active

1993 - present

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.

Label(s)

Curb Records

WEA International

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. The album also produced her first and only Number One single

to date, "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)".

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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

Christian Albums charts.

Notable career setbacks began in the year 2000, when she sued her father for

misappropriating more than $7 million of her earnings. [2] In 2002, she publicly

denounced the album I Need You , which her record label had assembled from

studio outtakes.

In 2002, Rimes released her first album with a more pop-oriented sound,

Twisted Angel . It featured two successful singles and videos, "Life Goes On"

and "Suddenly." On February 23, 2002, she married Dean Sheremet (b.

December 9, 1980), a dancer whom she met while recording Twisted Angel .

They currently live in Nashville, Tennessee. 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.

Cover of LeAnn's Greatest Hits

Just a few short months after her 21st birthday, Rimes released a greatest hits album, simply titled Greatest Hits ,

which went platinum in 2007. It featured all her hits spanning from 1996-2002, along with three new songs, "This

Love," "We Can," and "Last Thing On My Mind." In 2004, the album was released internationally under the title

The Best of LeAnn Rimes with a different track listing and remixes of various songs.

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. 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.

On June 3 2006, Rimes recorded a live session at Abbey Road Studios for Live From Abbey Road. Her

performance was shown on an episode with Dr.John and Massive Attack and aired in the USA on the Sundance

Channel and on Channel 4 in the UK.

On June 6, 2006, Rimes released a new pop album called Whatever We Wanna , led by the single "And It Feels

Like." The album was to be released in U.S. and Canada, but due to the success of 2005's This Woman , it was only

released in Europe. Rimes co-wrote 10 out of the 15 songs on the album.

LeAnn has furthered the promotion of her music by recording several soundtracks singles. These include "Looking

Through Your Eyes" for Quest for Camelot , "Leaving's Not Leaving" for Anywhere But Here , "I Believe In You"

for the TV movie Jesus , "Can't Fight the Moonlight," "The Right Kind of Wrong," "Please Remember," and "But I

Do Love You" for Coyote Ugly , "Soon" for Driven , "Suddenly" for View from the Top , "We Can" for Legally

Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde , and most recently "Ready for a Miracle" for Evan Almighty [3]

LeAnn's new single, "Nothing Better To Do," is the first single off her upcoming album entitled Family set to hit

store shelves on October 9, 2007.

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Rimes has also recorded a duet with rock band Bon Jovi for their next album Lost Highway , called "Till We Ain't

Strangers Anymore."

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 and featured in Bruce Almighty . The song can be heard in the movie, during the end credits, and in the

trailers of Evan Almighty.

LeAnn will have a small part in the movie Good Intentions with her friend Elaine Hendricks which is filming near

Atlanta, Georgia. [4]

LeAnn will be teaming up with Joss Stone for a CMT Crossroads special airing this fall. [5]

Rimes is in the singing line-up for two of the five Freedom concerts in 2007, promoted and arranged by Sean

Hannity and WABC.

Discography

Albums

Chart positions

RIAA

certification

[6]

Yea

Title

U.S.

Countr

U.S

Everybody's

Sweetheart

1991

—

From My

Heart To

Yours

1992

—

1994 All That

—

1996 Blue

4× Platinum

—

Unchained

Melody: The

Early Years

2× Platinum

—

1997

You Light up

My Life:

Inspirational

Songs

4× Platinum

—

Sittin' on Top

of the World

1998

Platinum

—

1999 LeAnn Rimes

Platinum

—

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I Need You

Gold

2001

God Bless

America

—

159

—

2002 Twisted Angel

Gold

—

2003 Greatest Hits

Platinum

—

The Best of

LeAnn Rimes

—

2004

What a

Wonderful

World

—

2005 This Woman

Gold

—

Whatever We

Wanna

2006

—

2007 Family

—

Singles

(Source (http://mikecurb.com/about/pdf/billboard_charted_Singles.pdf) )

U.S.

Hot

100

U.S.

Country

U.S.

Dance

Year

Single

Album

IRL

AUS

"Blue"

—

"Hurt Me"

—

1996

Blue

"One Way Ticket (Because I

Can)"

—

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Unchained Melody: The

Early Years

"Unchained Melody"

—

"Put A Little Holiday In Your

Heart"

God Bless America

—

1997

"The Light in Your Eyes"

Blue

—

"How Do I Live"

—

You Light Up My Life:

Inspirational Songs

"You Light Up My Life"

—

"On the Side of Angels"

—

"Commitment"

—

1998

"Looking Through Your Eyes"

—

Sittin' on Top of the

World

"Nothin' New Under the Moon"

—

"Feels Like Home"

—

"These Arms of Mine"

—

1999

"Written in the Stars" (with

Elton John)

I Need You

—

"Crazy"

—

LeAnn Rimes

2000 "Big Deal"

—

"I Need You"

—

"Can't Fight the Moonlight"

I Need You

2001 "But I Do Love You"

103

—

2002 "Soon"

—

2001 "God Bless America"

God Bless America

—

2002 "Life Goes On"

110

—

"Tic Toc" (Wildlife,

Thunderpuss, & M. Rizzo

mixes)

Twisted Angel

—

2003

"Suddenly"

—

"We Can" A

—

Greatest Hits

"This Love"

—

What a Wonderful

World

"O Holy Night"

—

2004

"Last Thing on My Mind" (with

Ronan Keating)

Greatest Hits

—

"Nothin' 'bout Love Makes

Sense"

This Woman

—

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