LeAnn Rimes


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BirthPlace
08/27/1982
Jackson, MS
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Won her first talent contest at the age of 5.
Sites Janis Joplin as one of her biggest influences, and her vocals have been likened to Patsy Cline.
Grew up in Texas.
Her 1997 version of the song "How Do I Live" spent a record-setting 69 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Recorded her first album at 7, her second at age 11. The title song of this disc, Blue, is what brought her to national attention.
At 16, sued her record label (for their release of an album of studio outtakes that she deemed "substandard") and her father (for taking more than $7 million of her earnings). Ended her estr
Married her backup dancer Dean Sheremet.