LeAnn Rimes (born Margaret LeAnn Rimes August 28, 1982 in Pearl, Mississippi) is an American country pop singer and songwriter. Her debut single, "Blue", was released when she was only 13 years old. By the age of 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 achievements in the music industry: the youngest person to win a Grammy; the first country artist to win the Grammy for Best New Artist; and her version of How Do I Live is the longest charting song on the U.S. Hot 100 at 69 weeks. How Do I Live was the second multi-platinum country single ever, the first being Kenny Rogers' and Dolly Parton's 1983 hit Islands in the Stream.
Unlike most other child stars, Rimes has remained successful in music in adulthood, recording various kinds of music, including rhythm and blues and pop music.
Because of the success of Blue, Rimes became one of the youngest country music singers ever to rise to fame. At age 14 Rimes was a teenage country star. Rimes has been often compared to the previous teen stars to rise to fame in country music, including Brenda Lee in the 1950s, Tanya Tucker and Marie Osmond in the 1970s. Taylor Swift, who rose to fame in 2006 at age 16 with her debut Top 10 hit Tim McGraw, credits Rimes as one of her inspirations.
Two other singles were released from the Blue album in 1996: Hurt Me, which was not a major country hit, and One Way Ticket (Because I Can) (co-written by former country singer Judy Rodman) which was more successful. It reached the number one spot on the Country charts in late 1996. "One Way Ticket" is currently her only number one Billboard country song to date on the United States charts. In mid-1997 another single was released from the album, The Light in Your Eyes, which peaked at #5. Rimes won the Country Music Association Horizon Award. She also won two Grammy awards, one for "Best New Artist" and one for "Best Female Country Vocal Performance" for Blue.
In 1998, the album Sittin' on Top of the World was released. The album was another major seller, and the album received a Platinum rating by the RIAA, Rimes' third Platinum album. The first single released from the album, Commitment, was a Top 5 Country hit by mid-1998. She had one other Country Top 10 hit from the album, titled Nothin' New Under the Moon. The song Lookin' Through Your Eyes from the same album, was a Top 20 Pop hit, but did not chart the Country list.
In 1999, Rimes released a cover album of songs by singers that she has credited for inspiration, including songs by Patsy Cline, Janis Joplin and Marty Robbins. The album was simply titled LeAnn Rimes and was certified Platinum. One song released from album was a new song by Rimes titled Big Deal, which peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Country charts.
In 2001, Curb Records released I Need You as a collection of promotional tracks and B-sides to help satisfy Rimes' recording contract obligations during litigation with the label and her management. The title track was released in mid-2000, and hit No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 8 on the Country charts. Her next song, Can't Fight the Moonlight, also hit No. 11 on the Hot 100, but did not fare well with Country radio, only hitting No. 61 there. The song was a major hit on the Dance music charts, peaking at No. 17. The album I Need You was certified Gold in 2001. In 2000, she played herself in the film, Coyote Ugly. The album was re-released on March 26, 2002, with four remix bonus tracks and the song Light the Fire Within, which LeAnn performed at the 2002 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Salt Lake City, Utah.
LeAnn has furthered the promotion of her music by recording several soundtrack singles. These include Looking Through Your Eyes for Quest for Camelot, Leaving's Not Leaving for Anywhere but Here, I Need 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.
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. Later that year, Rimes was ranked #39 in CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music.
A few months after her 21st birthday, Rimes released a greatest hits album, 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. As of this period, Rimes had not released any major country hits. For two years, Rimes' career remained in a commercial sales decline, with no major hits on either the Billboard Country or Hot 100 charts.
LeAnn was featured in a UK television interview called "LeAnn on Faith & Music". The interview talked about LeAnn's rise to fame and her worldwide success including her duets such as with Ronan Keating and Reba McEntire. She also starred in an episode of the American TV series American Dreams, in which she portrayed 1960s pop singer Connie Francis.
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 of the album's 15 songs.
LeAnn's song, Nothin' Better To Do is the first single from her album entitled Family, released on October 9, 2007. The album is based on her own life. Nothin' Better to Do peaked at No. 14 on the Country charts in late 2007. Good Friend and a Glass of Wine, the second single released off her 2007 album, was released to country radio in early 2008 but it only peaked at #35. The third single will be What I Cannot Change and was released to radio in August 2008.
On a special taping of a CMT Giants episode, LeAnn paid honor to Reba McEntire by singing a show-stopping rendition of Reba's 1992 song, The Greatest Man I Never Knew. She received a standing ovation from both the audience (including Reba and her parents). The episode was taped before a live audience at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
LeAnn can be heard on the track When You Love Someone Like That, off Reba McEntire's duets album released on September 18, 2007. Rimes has also recorded a duet with rock band Bon Jovi for their album Lost Highway, called Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore, which entered Billboard's "Bubling Under Hot 100" chart on radio airplay alone. In an episode of Bon Jovi Unplugged, Jon Bon Jovi stated that he wanted a singer who could understand the lyrics, and almost gave up, saying, " . . and couldn't find anyone and went all the way through the process, and said 'oh well' it's not gonna work out." He even joked about her: "A great artist like LeAnn, who's been around for a hundred years, and still she's only about 13 now." He also stated about her "with all that talent..." Both of LeAnn's duets with Bon Jovi and Reba appear as bonus tracks on her album Family.
In early June 2007, LeAnn was chosen at the last minute to record the leading song for the soundtrack of Evan Almighty called Ready For A Miracle (previously recorded by Patti LaBelle). 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. LeAnn teamed up with Joss Stone for a CMT Crossroads special aired in fall 2007.
Rimes is currently touring with country singer Kenny Chesney where she is opening every show on his 2008 Poets and Pirates Tour, along with other artists on select dates such as Brooks & Dunn, Keith Urban, Sammy Hagar, Gary Allan, Big & Rich, and Luke Bryan. She returned to the studio in July 2008 to record a new album. LeAnn was part of the song, Just Stand Up with other female artists including Carrie Underwood, Ciara and Beyonce.
She also recorded a song with Delta Goodrem, For Good for Wicked's fifth anniversary release.
Amid the legal battles, she fell in love with backup dancer Dean Sheremet. The two met when he was chosen to dance during Rimes' hosting of the 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards. They are now married, and Rimes also reconciled with her father after the wedding. In 2002, she publicly denounced her I Need You album, which her record label had assembled from studio outtakes.
LeAnn Rimes (born Margaret LeAnn Rimes August 28, 1982 in Pearl, Mississippi) is an American country pop singer and songwriter. Her debut single, "Blue", was released when she was only 13 years old. By the age of 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 achievements in the music industry: the youngest person to win a Grammy; the first country artist to win the Grammy for Best New Artist; and her version of How Do I Live is the longest charting song on the U.S. Hot 100 at 69 weeks. How Do I Live was the second multi-platinum country single ever, the first being Kenny Rogers' and Dolly Parton's 1983 hit Islands in the Stream.
Unlike most other child stars, Rimes has remained successful in music in adulthood, recording various kinds of music, including rhythm and blues and pop music.
Because of the success of Blue, Rimes became one of the youngest country music singers ever to rise to fame. At age 14 Rimes was a teenage country star. Rimes has been often compared to the previous teen stars to rise to fame in country music, including Brenda Lee in the 1950s, Tanya Tucker and Marie Osmond in the 1970s. Taylor Swift, who rose to fame in 2006 at age 16 with her debut Top 10 hit Tim McGraw, credits Rimes as one of her inspirations.
Two other singles were released from the Blue album in 1996: Hurt Me, which was not a major country hit, and One Way Ticket (Because I Can) (co-written by former country singer Judy Rodman) which was more successful. It reached the number one spot on the Country charts in late 1996. "One Way Ticket" is currently her only number one Billboard country song to date on the United States charts. In mid-1997 another single was released from the album, The Light in Your Eyes, which peaked at #5. Rimes won the Country Music Association Horizon Award. She also won two Grammy awards, one for "Best New Artist" and one for "Best Female Country Vocal Performance" for Blue.
In 1998, the album Sittin' on Top of the World was released. The album was another major seller, and the album received a Platinum rating by the RIAA, Rimes' third Platinum album. The first single released from the album, Commitment, was a Top 5 Country hit by mid-1998. She had one other Country Top 10 hit from the album, titled Nothin' New Under the Moon. The song Lookin' Through Your Eyes from the same album, was a Top 20 Pop hit, but did not chart the Country list.
In 1999, Rimes released a cover album of songs by singers that she has credited for inspiration, including songs by Patsy Cline, Janis Joplin and Marty Robbins. The album was simply titled LeAnn Rimes and was certified Platinum. One song released from album was a new song by Rimes titled Big Deal, which peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Country charts.
In 2001, Curb Records released I Need You as a collection of promotional tracks and B-sides to help satisfy Rimes' recording contract obligations during litigation with the label and her management. The title track was released in mid-2000, and hit No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 8 on the Country charts. Her next song, Can't Fight the Moonlight, also hit No. 11 on the Hot 100, but did not fare well with Country radio, only hitting No. 61 there. The song was a major hit on the Dance music charts, peaking at No. 17. The album I Need You was certified Gold in 2001. In 2000, she played herself in the film, Coyote Ugly. The album was re-released on March 26, 2002, with four remix bonus tracks and the song Light the Fire Within, which LeAnn performed at the 2002 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Salt Lake City, Utah.
LeAnn has furthered the promotion of her music by recording several soundtrack singles. These include Looking Through Your Eyes for Quest for Camelot, Leaving's Not Leaving for Anywhere but Here, I Need 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.
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. Later that year, Rimes was ranked #39 in CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music.
A few months after her 21st birthday, Rimes released a greatest hits album, 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. As of this period, Rimes had not released any major country hits. For two years, Rimes' career remained in a commercial sales decline, with no major hits on either the Billboard Country or Hot 100 charts.
LeAnn was featured in a UK television interview called "LeAnn on Faith & Music". The interview talked about LeAnn's rise to fame and her worldwide success including her duets such as with Ronan Keating and Reba McEntire. She also starred in an episode of the American TV series American Dreams, in which she portrayed 1960s pop singer Connie Francis.
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 of the album's 15 songs.
LeAnn's song, Nothin' Better To Do is the first single from her album entitled Family, released on October 9, 2007. The album is based on her own life. Nothin' Better to Do peaked at No. 14 on the Country charts in late 2007. Good Friend and a Glass of Wine, the second single released off her 2007 album, was released to country radio in early 2008 but it only peaked at #35. The third single will be What I Cannot Change and was released to radio in August 2008.
On a special taping of a CMT Giants episode, LeAnn paid honor to Reba McEntire by singing a show-stopping rendition of Reba's 1992 song, The Greatest Man I Never Knew. She received a standing ovation from both the audience (including Reba and her parents). The episode was taped before a live audience at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
LeAnn can be heard on the track When You Love Someone Like That, off Reba McEntire's duets album released on September 18, 2007. Rimes has also recorded a duet with rock band Bon Jovi for their album Lost Highway, called Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore, which entered Billboard's "Bubling Under Hot 100" chart on radio airplay alone. In an episode of Bon Jovi Unplugged, Jon Bon Jovi stated that he wanted a singer who could understand the lyrics, and almost gave up, saying, " . . and couldn't find anyone and went all the way through the process, and said 'oh well' it's not gonna work out." He even joked about her: "A great artist like LeAnn, who's been around for a hundred years, and still she's only about 13 now." He also stated about her "with all that talent..." Both of LeAnn's duets with Bon Jovi and Reba appear as bonus tracks on her album Family.
In early June 2007, LeAnn was chosen at the last minute to record the leading song for the soundtrack of Evan Almighty called Ready For A Miracle (previously recorded by Patti LaBelle). 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. LeAnn teamed up with Joss Stone for a CMT Crossroads special aired in fall 2007.
Rimes is currently touring with country singer Kenny Chesney where she is opening every show on his 2008 Poets and Pirates Tour, along with other artists on select dates such as Brooks & Dunn, Keith Urban, Sammy Hagar, Gary Allan, Big & Rich, and Luke Bryan. She returned to the studio in July 2008 to record a new album. LeAnn was part of the song, Just Stand Up with other female artists including Carrie Underwood, Ciara and Beyonce.
She also recorded a song with Delta Goodrem, For Good for Wicked's fifth anniversary release.
Amid the legal battles, she fell in love with backup dancer Dean Sheremet. The two met when he was chosen to dance during Rimes' hosting of the 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards. They are now married, and Rimes also reconciled with her father after the wedding. In 2002, she publicly denounced her I Need You album, which her record label had assembled from studio outtakes.
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