Who is Miranda Lambert?

Who is Miranda Lambert?

Who is Miranda Lambert?

If you are a fan of American country music, you certainly know who she is. If for a long time you only like to listen to pop, rock, hip-hop, rap… then please know that Miranda Lambert is the first female artist to set a record of 9 nominations from the Country Music Association (CMA).

Let’s temporarily forget “sweetheart” Carrie Underwood (American Idol 2007 champion), not mention the talented Gretchen Wilson and also not discuss the young star Taylor Swift who won the 2010 Grammy Best Country Album. Because the most shining female country artist this year is Miranda Lambert, whose best-selling album Revolution leads the race for the 2010 Country Music Awards with nine nominations. In second place is Lady Antebellum with five nominations, in third place is Blake Shelton, her engaged lover to Miranda Lambert, with four nominations. The group Zac Brown Band also received four CMA 2010 nominations. In March, Miranda won three ACM awards (American Academy of Country Music) also with the album Revolution. It seems that Miranda only lost to Alan Jackson, who received 10 CMA Award nominations in 2002.

To understand how Miranda achieved this lucky number 9 – many female talents in the North American country village, from Tammy Wynette, June Carter Cash to Alison Kraus, LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, the group Dixie Famous Chicks to Carrie Underwood, Gretchen Wilson… have not been able to do it for decades – you need to go back to the past.

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Miranda Leigh Lambert was born on November 10, 1983 in Longview, Texas and grew up in Lindale, also Texas. Longview was once a performance venue for Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson, as well as the starting point for the talented male country duo Brooks & Dunn. Miranda’s father was a police officer who composed and played country music, and later became a private detective along with her mother.

Because her parents both knew how to use guns and grew up in the “cowboy state of Texas”, Miranda was introduced to guns as a child so that when she was a young woman, she was a qualified hunter. As residents of Texas, the Lambert family couldn’t help but love country music, so when she was 9, Miranda’s parents took her to see country star Garth Brooks perform for the first time. Not long after, Miranda began participating in country talent competitions.

At age 16, she appeared on the show Johnny High Country Music Review in Arlington, Texas. This was the first “stepping stone” show for LeAnn Rimes’s ascension in the 90s of the last century. So does Miranda. She was invited to record in Nashville, the “capital” of American country music. But she soon left because she was dissatisfied with the country sound that was too rich in sweet pop influences. Returning home, she asked her father to teach her how to play the acoustic guitar so she could compose and sing songs at the same time.

In 2005, Miranda Lambert released her debut album Kerosene. What no one expected was that the record spawned four singles that all entered the Billboard Top 40 best-selling country songs. Those are the songs Me and Charlie talking; Bring me down, Kerosene and New strings.
Two years later, Miranda continued to achieve greater success with the album Crazy ex-girlfriend with three songs Famous in a small town; More like her and Gunpowder and lead (Miranda’s first song to reach the Top 10). Another two years have passed, and when she released her third album, Revolution, in September 2009, Miranda Lambert was already a very familiar name to country fans. Because at that time she had won many valuable awards from ACM. The first single from this album, The house that built me, became the first number one song of Miranda Lambert’s songwriting and singing career (four weeks at number one on the Billboard Top 10 country songs. More significantly, she She is the third female artist in the history of the country genre to have three albums ranked number one on Billboard Top Country Albums in the first week of release.

Miranda Lambert is not only nominated in the most valuable category – Performer of the Year – but is also competing in the Album of the Year category; Female Singer of the Year; Song of the year (White liar); Music of the Year (performing Bad Angel with Dierks Bentley and Jamey Johnson). And she competed with herself in the Single of the Year and Video of the Year categories with the songs The house that built me ​​and White liar.

If Miranda Lambert wins the 2010 CMA Performer of the Year award – that means winning Lady Antebellum; Brad Paisley; Keith Urban and Zac Brown Band – it means that the “girls first” trend has risen very high in country music. Because Taylor Swift won the award a year ago and Carrie Underwood became the first female artist to win the ACM Performer of the Year award twice. But in 43 awards since 1967, only seven female artists have been honored with the Performer of the Year award (including Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandrell – twice – Reba McEntire, Shania Twain, Dixie Chicks and Taylor Swift).

While waiting for the 2010 CMA Awards results to be announced on November 10, 2010, listen to another song that has just begun to emerge from young talent Miranda Lambert. That’s Only prettier, a newsletter that encourages young girls not to be pessimistic about their plump bodies in a time when only girls with long legs and skinny bodies are considered beautiful. Miranda Lambert herself is quite plump at this time, not slender and weak like Taylor Swift.

Below are some of Miranda Lambert’s standout songs that you might enjoy:

1. The House That Built Me
2. Vice
3. Gunpowder & Lead
4. Somethin’ Bad (duet with Carrie Underwood)
5. Mama’s Broken Heart
6. Over You
7. Tin Man
8. White Liar
9. Kerosene
10. Bluebird

Hope you will like these songs!