Name : LeAnn Rimes
Profession : Singer, Songwriter
Date of Birth : August 28, 1982
Place of Birth : Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Height : 5' 5''.
LeAnn Rimes - Detailed Biography
At age 8, Rimes
was a two-week champion on Star Search (1990) and began her phenomenal rise to
fame in her early teens. She opened for Randy Travis in Dallas in 1995 and soon
signed with Curb Records. Her hit song Blue (1996), originally written for Patsy
Cline, topped the country charts. At the 1997 Grammy Awards she won Best New
Artist (the youngest performer to win the award) and Best Female Country Vocal
Performance; she was also Billboard's Artist of the Year. She has released four
albums with Curb, most recently Sittin' on Top of the World (1998), and has sold
more than nine million albums.
