LeAnn Rimes
Rimes was born Margaret LeAnn Rimes in Jackson, Mississippi. LeAnn started singing before the age of two. A few years later, Rimes and her family moved out to Texas, and before age 11, she released her first album titled Everybody’s Sweetheart in 1991 on a small independent label. The album’s release garnered the attention of label executives and disc jockeys, including disc jockey, Bill Mack, who was fascinated by Rimes’ Patsy Cline-styled voice. Mack then began to cultivate a plan to make Rimes a mainstream Country music artist. Between the years 1992 and 1994, Rimes continued to release albums under independent labels that failed gaining any type of success in the Country music world. By then her family had relocated to Garland, Texas. She began honing her skills as a country artist performing on Johnnie High’s Country Music Revue in Ft. Worth, a popular show that featured local artists and national acts. Throughout 1995, Rimes’ career continued to gain momentum, as she performed more than 100 concerts and appeared on television shows across Texas.
In 1995, Mack arranged a recording contract for Rimes under the Nashville record label, Curb Records, and also sent out a demo release of the song “Blue”, a song Mack had originally intended for legendary Country-Pop music singer, Patsy Cline to record. However, her death in March 1963 failed for Mack to give the song to Cline. The DJ claimed that he had been waiting over 30 years for the right singer to record “Blue” for him. However, this story was later found out to be over-exaggerated. The song had actually been recorded by three different artists, including Bill Mack and Kenny Roberts, who both released singles of the song under Starday Records in the 1960s. Kathryn Pitt released her version of “Blue” in her native country of Australia. Soon, Rimes was recording her newest album (also called Blue), which was soon released to the general public in 1996.
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