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| Birth Name(s) : Margaret LeAnn Rimes |
Date of Birth: September 28, 1982 |
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Married
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Partner:
Dean Sheremet |
| Profession:
Actor/Musician |
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LeAnn Rimes started singing at age 3 and has been the youngest super-sensation the country music scene has ever witnessed. She has sold over 20 million records and set a record with the single "How Do I Live", which stayed number one on Billboard for 69 weeks. Her numerous awards include an American Music Award, 2 Grammys, 3 Academy of Country Awards and 4 Billboard Music Awards.
LeAnn's career spans other areas of show business as well. She has starred in a feature film called "Holiday in Your Heart" (1997) which was based on a book that she co-wrote. She made a cameo appearance in "Coyote Ugly" (2000) and recorded 4 songs for the soundtrack. Expect to see much, much more from this young superstar. |
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The album, Blue hit stores in 1996 when Rimes was only 13 years old, and sold 6 million copies. Blue debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and sold 123,000 copies within its first week. The album was so successful it has been certified six times platinum by the RIAA, and an additional 2x platinum worldwide. The single, "Blue" was also released in 1996, and hit the Country Top 10, reaching the very top, peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard charts, as well as reaching the Billboard Hot 100 Top 30 at No. 26. People were shocked by Rimes' Patsy Cline-styled voice, and thererfore, the story of how "Blue" came to be was spread across the country and mainstream press, and added people to believe that Rimes was indeed the successor to the legacy Cline left behind in early 1963. The fact that that Rimes credited Cline to be one of the biggest inspirations to her career could have also been a factor to this myth.
Two other singles were released from the Blue album in 1996, starting with the song, "Hurt Me" mid-year, which was not a major Country hit. However the successor to the song, "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)," which was co-written by former Country singer, Judy Rodman, proved to be a solid follow-up reaching the No. 1 spot on the Country charts in late 1996. "One Way Ticket" is currently Rimes' only No. 1 Country hit to date on the United States charts. In mid-1997, one last single was released from the album, titled "The Light in Your Eyes". The song was a Top 5 Country hit, peaking at No. 5. Rimes was nominated for the Country Music Association Horizon award and the CMA Best Country Singer, becoming the youngest singer in the history of the CMA awards to receive a nomination; she won neither award. Although Rimes did not win the awards mentioned above, she did win two Grammy awards, one for Best New Artist and one for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Blue", becoming the youngest female Country singer to ever win the awards.
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' Under the New Moon". The song "Lookin' Through You Eyes" from the same album, was a Top 20 Pop hit, but did not chart the Country list.
In 2001, Rimes focused her next album, I Need You almost entirely on the Pop market. 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 fair 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.
In 2002, Rimes released another album with a pop-oriented sound titled, 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. Later that year, Rimes was ranked #39 in CMT' 40 Greatest Women in Country Music.
On January 25, 2005, Rimes made a comeback into Country music, when she released This Woman. With sales over 800,000, it was her best-selling album in over five years, receiving a Platinum rating by the RIAA. The first single released from the album in late 2004 titled "Nothin' Bout Love Makes Sense" hit the No. 5 spot on the Country charts late that year, her first major Country hit in a number of years. In addition, the next single, "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way", reached No. 3 on the Country charts in 2006, and even made the Top 10 on the Adult Contemporary charts. Another single, from the album, "Something's Gotta Give", just missed the top spot on the Country charts at No. 2.
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 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.
Rimes is in the singing line-up for two of the five Freedom concerts in 2007, promoted and arranged by Sean Hannity and WABC.
At 16, Rimes tried to take the reins of her career from her father. In 2000, she filed suit against her father, claiming her father and his partner pocketed some $7 million of her earnings and kept tens of thousands in cash hidden in a safe on her tour bus.
Amid the legal battles, Rimes fell in love with backup dancer Dean Sheremet. The two met when he was cast to dance during Rimes' performance when she hosted the 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards. Since meeting each other, the two have since been married, and Rimes has also reconciled with her father since 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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