LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer who is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search. This was followed by the release of the Bill Mack song "Blue" when she was 13 to become the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972.

Rimes made her breakthrough into country music in 1996 with her debut album, Blue, which reached #1 on the Top Country Albums chart and was certified multiplatinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album's eponymous leadoff single, "Blue". It became a Top 10 hit and Rimes gained national acclaim for her similarity to Patsy Cline's vocal style. When she released her sophomore studio effort in 1997, You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs, she moved towards country pop material, which set the trend for a string of albums released into the next decade.

Rimes has won many awards, including two Grammys, three ACMs, a CMA, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and one American Music award She has also released 11 studio albums and three compilation albums and two greatest hits albums, one released in the US and the other released internationally and placed over 40 singles on American and international charts since 1996. She has sold over 37 million records worldwide, with 20.3 million album sales in the United States.

Her third album, You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs, is the only album to ever debut at number one on three individual charts at the same time. It spawned an extended mix of the number two pop hit, "How Do I Live", which brought Rimes to crossover pop stardom. Rimes' later releases focused on the pop music market. After the commercial decline of her 2002 album, Twisted Angel, Rimes released the album This Woman, which returned Rimes to recording country music.

The 2007 album, Family included two Top 40 country singles, as well as "What I Cannot Change", which hit number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in February 2009. LeAnn has also enjoyed Dance Club success with remixes of "Nothin' Better to Do", "Headphones" and "Good Friend and a Glass of Wine".