• Name: LeAnn Rimes
• LeAnn started singing at age 3, and has sold over 20 million records since. She was born August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi. By age 7, LeAnn made her stage debut in a Dallas musical production of "A Christmas Carol". Later, she would sing "The Star Spangled Banner" to open Dallas Cowboys football games. By age 11, LeAnn recorded her first album on an independent label only available in local stores in Dallas: "All That" which featured her signature song "Blue". This got the attention of Curb Records. In 1996, 14-year-old LeAnn recorded a major-label album. In 1997, LeAnn released "You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs" which debuted on 3 Billboard Magazine charts at the same time: Pop, Country, and Contemporary Christian (that had never been achieved before by a country singer). That year, LeAnn released "How Do I Live" which would set a record by staying #1 on Billboard Magazine's "Hot 100" chart for 69 weeks. LeAnn starred in the TV-movie Holiday in Your Heart (1997) (TV), based on a book which she had co-authored. Capping a great year for the 15-year-old LeAnn, she won an American Music Award, 2 Grammy awards, 3 Academy of Country Music Awards, and 4 Billboard Music Awards. In 1998, LeAnn won a Lone Star Film & Television Special Award for Rising Star Actress. In 1999, LeAnn released a namesake CD, offering her interpretations of 11 Country standards, including "Crazy" and "I Fall to Pieces" (originally recorded by Patsy Cline in 1960). LeAnn made a cameo in Coyote Ugly (2000) (the low budget movie that raked in big bucks) and she also recorded 4 Diane Warren songs, including "Can't Fight the Moonlight", for the movie soundtrack. An amazing career and, since she is only 18, I am sure there will have to be mini-bio updates in the future.





• Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
• Trivia
  Was a one time winner on "Star Search" (1983) in 1990, in the junior vocalist competition.
  
  chosen as one of Teen People Magazine's "21 Hottest Stars Under 21" [1999]
  
  In May 2000, filed a lawsuit against her father, Wilbur, and his partner and LeAnn's co-manager alleging that they stole more than $7 million of her earnings.
  
  Diagnosed as suffering from Epstein-Barr virus. [September 2000]
  
  Dated actor Andrew Keegan. [2001]
  
  LeAnn Rimes is reportedly planning to get married on February 23. Rimes met dancer Dean Sheremet last May, when they performed at the Academy Of Country Music Awards in Nashville. The wedding is to take place in Dallas, according to reports. It was initially pencilled in for Santa Barbara, California, but Rimes changed the location to Dallas so that her ill grandfather could walk her down the aisle.
  
  December 14, 2001 - Announced engagement to actor Dean Sheremet at Elton John's "The Concert" for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
  
  won the 1997 Grammy awards for best new artist & best female country vocalist.
  
  Currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee [2005]
  
  When then 14-year-old Rimes was voted Best New Artist of 1997 at the Grammy Awards, she became the youngest person to win the award.
  
  Lived for quite a while in Garland, Texas at an apartment complex called Pecan Knoll.
  
  Shares a birthday with Shania Twain.
  
  Ranked #47 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars"
  
  By age 2, she learned to tap dance; by age 5 she was winning talent competitions; by age 7 she had cut her first album, sold at shows; and by age 14, she was the youngest artist to be nominated for the Country Music Awards.
  
  Friends with actor Jensen Ackles.
  
  Ranked as #50 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
• Relations: Companion: Justin Timberlake ('N Sync heartthrob)
• Education: Studied at the off-Broadway Dance Center and at the Professional Performing Arts School

"I'm not an overnight success, I've been at this since I was 6." (On winning her Best New Artist Grammy at age 14 in 1997)

"Me and my husband don't really do the drugs and rock'n'roll thing. We don't do crazy stuff like that. We're pretty mellow people."

"I was raised as a Southern woman so I am polite, have great manners and know how to handle myself as a woman. But I'm no goody two-shoes, definitely not. I have fun when I want to have fun."

"I'm very happy now; I'm married, I have wonderful friends, my dad and I have a great relationship. I feel better than I ever have. There was a lot more pressure when I was 14 - a lot more was expected of me."

"I grew up in a really musical family and I think I was just blessed with a gift. I kind of knew this was what I was supposed to do in life, with a little help from my mum and dad, who were never pushy parents."
- LeAnn Rimes