Miranda Leigh Lambert was born in Longview, Texas on
November 10, 1983. Her father was a police officer who turned private
investigator and partnered with his wife Beverly June Lambert. Lambert had
experiences with guns and gun safety at an early stage and grew into an avid
deer hunter. When she was nine she attended a Garth Brooks concert with her
parents and this became the start of her country music interests. Her father
was a song writer and performer and she began singing in talent shows under his
guidance, and soon moved to playing in small restaurants.
At the ripe old age of sixteen she began appearing in the Johnnie
High Country Music Revue held weekly in Arlington, Texas. This same show helped
jumpstart the musical career of LeAnn. Lambert soon received a recording
session in Nashville, but soon returned home after being frustrated with the
“pop” sound of music. Her father taught her to play the guitar allowing her to
write her own songs. She had plenty to write about, when she was fifteen her
family opened their home to an abused mother and her child. She had heard about
domestic abuse but this experience really opened her eyes to it. She is
currently licensed to carry a handgun and has a tattoo of two crossed revolvers
emblazoned with angel wings.
On May 14, 2011 she married fellow country artist Blake
Shelton (sorry Haylee) at the Don Strange Ranch in Boerne, Texas. The two live
in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. She once stated that she enjoys watching the show “Snapped”
which illustrates the stories of female killers. She saw one episode where one woman
had been abused by her husband for several years. One day she shot him in the
bedroom and left him lying there for two years. The road it happened on was
County Road 233, which is the same road featured in her song “Gunpowder and
Lead.” When asked if she felt responsible she said the best compliment she can
get is when a woman says that Lambert has given her the courage to leave after
years of abuse and she said not to shoot him or if you do don’t blame her.
