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LeAnn Rimes

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LeAnn Rimes Fast Facts:

Grew up in Texas.
Won her first talent contest at the age of 5.
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.
Sites Janis Joplin as one of her biggest influences, and her vocals have been likened to Patsy Cline.
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 estrangement from her father before her 2002 wedding.
Her 1997 version of the song "How Do I Live" spent a record-setting 69 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Married her backup dancer Dean Sheremet.
Wrote a children's book titled Jag's New Friend in 2004.