Lee Ann Womack Biography

Fast Facts

• Partnered with the organization Join My Village in 2010 to help support educational opportunities for girls in Malawi
• Studied music at South Plains Junior College and Belmont University
• Married singer Jason Sellers in 1990
• Signed with Decca Records as a recording artist in 1996
• While in college, she worked as an intern for MCA Records
• Began performing in clubs in Nashville during the early 1990s and got a job as a writer for Tree Publishing in 1995
• Quote: "It just seems like music when it is most powerful hits you right between the eyes․"
• Country music singer and songwriter who had a No․ 1 crossover hit song in 2000 with "I Hope You Dance․"
• Co-wrote the Ricky Skaggs song "I Don't Remember Forgetting․"