Carrie Underwood

Carrie Marie Underwood was born March 10, 1983 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She began her professional music career in 2005 when she won the fourth season of American Idol. Since then she has won five Grammy awards. Also she has recieved an immense number of billboard music awards, American music awards, a golden globe award nominee, country music association female vocalist winner and a three time academy of country music winner. She received a 7x multi-platinum award for her first album “Some Hearts”. Her total sales include more than 25 million singles and more than 15 million albums worldwide. Two years ago, she became the female country artist to have the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, breaking her previous Guinness Book record of eleven which she co-held with Reba McEntire. She continues to hold the record, now with fourteen.

Although we all have the little ticks and habits that make us who we are, it always seems more interesting to find out the habits of celebrities as opposed to the guy down the street. For example, during her salutatorian speech at graduation she was showing off an impressive black eye. She had been hit in the eye with a softball during an earlier game. She also found out, through a rumor, that she was pregnant with an alien baby. If she forgets to make her bed in the morning, it distracts her throughout the day knowing that it is not made.

Out of her four albums my favorite is “Some Hearts,” among those are the singles “Jesus Take the Wheel” and “Before He Cheats.”  Her most recent album came out in 2012, she released the album, “Blown Away,” which I bought and in my opinion the most likely songs to become the highest recongnized would be “Good Girl” or “Blown Away.” Since then, she has begun an acting career where she played Maria Von Trapp in “The Sound of Music: Live.”

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Luke Bryan

Thomas Luther “Luke” Bryan was born in July 17, 1976 in Leesburg, Georgia. At the age of 14, he received his first guitar, and later joined several local bands playing in nearby clubs. Soon after graduating Leesburg County High School, he made plans to move to Nashville, Tennessee, but those were put on hold when his brother, Chris, died on the day he supposed to leave. He attended Georgia Southern University, and became a member of the Eta Zeta chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. After college, he went to work with his father, but eventually relocated to Nashville and received a record deal as a songwriter just two months later. On December 8^th, 2006 he married Caroline Boyer. They had their first son Thomas Boyer on March 18^th, 2008 and their second, Tatum Christopher, on August 11^th, 2010.

Among the first songs he wrote were the title track of Travis Tritt’s “My Honky Tonk History” album released in 2004. Soon after a representative of Capitol Records saw him perform and signed him to a contract. In the time that occurred he co-wrote Billy Currington's “Good Directions,” which peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart in 2007. On his first album he co-wrote all of the 11 songs except for one. In that album “Country Man” was the only song to reach the top ten lists. His fourth single, “Do I,” he co-wrote with Charles Kelly and Dave Haywood, both who are members of Lady Antebellum.

On August 13th, 2013, he released his most recent album, Crash My Party, which helps retain his image as a good guy to have by your side whether crying your eyes out or consuming beverages of a nature only legal for those over 21. Overall, they represent his continuing style with no major changes, and hopefully a new addition to an already familiar age of country music. When he sang the Star Spangled Banner at the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, he sang perfectly, but controversy arose when he was criticized for having written a few key words to the song on his hand and glancing to check the words.

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