LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn Rimes (born Margaret LeAnn Rimes August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American country music singer. Rimes emerged with the single "Blue" when she was only 13 years old, and by age

LeAnn Rimes (born Margaret LeAnn Rimes August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American country music singer. Rimes emerged with the single "Blue" when she was only 13 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.

Guided by her guitar playing father, 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.