Lee Ann Womack

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Lee Ann Womack (pronounced WO-mak; born August 19, 1966) is an American country music performer and songwriter.

"I Hope You Dance," her 2000 album "I Hope You Dance" became a huge crossover music hit, peaking at No. 126. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and the Top 15 of the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her signature song. Womack's material resembled that of Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette when she first emerged as a contemporary country artist in 1997, except for the way Womack's music mixed an old-fashioned style with modern technology.

I Hope You Dance, her 2000 album, had a completely different vibe, with pop music elements instead of traditional country.

Womack returned to recording traditional country music right after the 2005 release of There's More Where That Came From.

Womack released a new album (The Way I'm Livin') and a new sound that blended country and Americana after a hiatus in 2008. Womack has released nine studio albums and two compilations.

The Recording Industry Association of America (USA) has given four of her studio albums a Gold or higher award.

In addition, she has been nominated for five Academy of Country Music Awards, six Country Music Association Awards, and a Grammy Award.

She has sold over 6 million albums around the world.

Womack is the wife of record producer Frank Liddell and ex-wife of singer and guitarist Jason Sellers; her daughter, Aubrie Sellers, is also a country music performer.

Early life

Womack was born and raised in Jacksonville, Texas. She had an interest in country music from an early age. Her father, a disc jockey, used to bring his daughter to help choose songs to play on the air. Womack was the second of two daughters. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father was a high school principal. Womack adored the piano as a child and later graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1984. Womack attended South Plains Junior College in Levelland, Texas, after graduating. Country Caravan, the college's first female music degree, was one of the country's first to offer country music degrees. Womack graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she concentrated on the commercial side of the music business a year later. She interned at MCA Records' A&R department in Nashville. She attended the college from 1990 to 1990, but left the school a year before graduation.

Womack spent a few years raising her children before returning to the music industry in the mid-1990s. In 1995, she began performing her music in songwriting demos and showcase concerts. She was spotted by Tree Publishing, who left her after listening to one of her first demo recordings at one of these showcase concerts. Bill Anderson and Ricky Skaggs, who recorded her song "I Don't Remember Forgetting" for one of his albums, wrote Womack's songs. Womack, who had divorcing her first husband at the time, has decided to pursue a career as a country music performer. Bruce Hinton, MCA's chairman, auditioned for her abilities. She accepted a job with MCA's sister company, Decca Nashville, a few weeks afterward.

Personal life

Womack married singer-songwriter Jason Sellers in 1990; they divorced in 1996. Aubrie Sellers, a daughter of Aubrie Sellers (b. February 1991), and they had a daughter named Aubrie Sellers together. After marrying record producer Frank Liddell, Womack gave birth to Anna Lise Liddell in January 1999.

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Music career

In May 1997, Womack released her self-titled debut album, which was produced by Mark Wright. The collection featured self-penned songs as well as songs written by other writers, including Mark Chesnutt, Ricky Skaggs, and Sharon White. By March 1997, the album's second single, "The Fool," became the first single to hit the country charts and playlists, leading to the debut of the album's second single, "The Fool" shortly afterward. "The Fool," her first album, debuted on the Billboard Country chart this year, is more popular than her first single "The Fool." She received top New Female Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music Awards, Top New Female Vocalist from Billboard Magazine, and was nominated for the Country Music Association's Horizon award this year. In 1998, Decca Nashville decided not to open in 1996, relocating Womack to MCA Nashville Records that year.

Womack's second studio album, Some Things You Know, was released in 1998, which was also produced by Wright. "A Little Past Little Rock" and "I'll Think of a Reason Later" were among the album's first two singles, "A Little Past Little Rock" and "I'll Think of a Reason Later" were both at No. No. 2 on the Billboard Country Chart. In 1999, two additional singles, "Now You See Me" and "Don't Tell Me," were released, and the album was released in 2000, and the RIAA awarded it Gold.

She was also named Favorite Country New Artist from the American Music Awards last year. In collaboration with her ex-husband and singer Jason Sellers, Womack performed her vocals to the songs "If You're Ever Down in Dallas" and "The Man Who Made Mama Cry." Before the birth of Womack's second child in January 1999, the media was promoted from October to November.

In 2000, Womack released I Hope You Dance, her third studio album, which met with a lot of success. The title track (which was released as the lead single) debuted at No. 1 on the charts. For five weeks, the Billboard Country chart topped the Billboard Hot 100, becoming a huge crossover pop hit, with No. 1 hitting No. 102 on the Billboard Country chart and extending to the Billboard Hot 100. 14. It also ranked at the top of the adult contemporary chart and even reached the UK Singles Charts, peaking at No. 1 at No. 58. 40. In the song's accompanying video, both of Womack's children appeared. "I Hope You Dance" and "Single of the Year" awards were awarded by the Country Music Association at the end of 2000. Womack drew the notice of the magazines People and Time, both of whom praised the single as "one of her best" in the pop series, "I Hope You Dance." In 2001, the album received honors from the Grammy and Academy of Country Music awards. To date, the album of the same name has sold 3 million copies in the United States. The album's sequel, which was a remix of Rodney Crowell's "Ashes By Now," debuted at No. 2. 4 on the Billboard Country Chart. The third single, "Why They Call It Down," was also very popular, achieving the country Top 15.

Womack performed "I Hope You Dance" at the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert on December 11, 2000.

Something Worth Leaving Behind, Womack's fourth studio album, was released in 2002. The album was the first attempt at a pop-infused style, but it didn't respond well, resulting in poor record sales and only one major hit. Womack's career stalled after its introduction. Later this year, she released The Season for Romance, a Christmas album, and later collaborated with Willie Nelson on his single, "Mendocino County Line," which received a Grammy and Country Music award in 2002. She appeared on the popular CBS drama The District in early 2003.

Womack performed the theme tune for the PBS' animated TV series adaptation of The Berenstain Bears in 2003.

At the Republican National Convention in 2004, Womack performed "I Hope You Dance," in which George W. Bush was nominated for his second term as President of the United States. Sara Evans and Larry Gatlin were among the evening's performers. In 2004, she appeared on Red Dirt Music band Cross Canadian Ragweed on their hit "Sick and Tired" show. "The Wrong Girl" (the only song from the album released as a single) and "Time for Me to Go" were two new songs on the year; also that year.

There's More Where That Came From, her fifth studio album aimed at traditional country music, debuted in 2005. Many people in the music business referred to the album as "a return to form" with songs about drinking and cheating with a distinct older country twang, as well as mixing strings and steel guitar. In 2005, the album received the Country Music Association's "Album of the Year" award. According to Allmusic, Womack took inspiration from 1970s and 1970s records, and the album sounded like 1970s albums by Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrell, and Dolly Parton. It also ranks among her best performances in the United States. In 2005, the lead single, "I May Hate Myself in the Morning," became a Top-ten hit and later that year, winning "Single of the Year" by the CMA awards. In 2005, two more singles were released from the album, "He Oughta Know That by Now" and "Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago." Both vinyl LP and CD were released with the album on vinyl and CD.

On Joe Nichols' album Real Things' album "If I Could Only Fly" Womack can be heard. Womack has also appeared on CMT's "100 Greatest Duets," which featured Womack singing a duet with Kenny Rogers, "Every Time Two Fools Collide." The song had been released by Rogers and Dottie West in 1978 and was a No. 1 in the United States. This year, one country has reached its high point. Womack appeared at West during the show after West died in a serious car accident in September 1991. Womack has received other accolades, including being ranked at No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal. 17 on CMT's 2002 edition of the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music, number 17.

Womack also revealed plans for a sixth studio album off of Mercury Nashville Records in 2006. "Finding My Way Back Home" was the lead single in the late summer of this year and debuted at No. 1 in the United States. On the Billboard Country Chart, 46 are listed. The single then reached its high point at No. 148. Womack discovered more songs she wanted to record in 2007, but the record was never released and Womack left Mercury.

For the first time in three years, Womack revealed plans for a new single, and MCA Nashville announced plans for a new single. On June 30, 2008, "Last Call" was announced. It was the lead-off single on Womack's seventh studio album, Call Me Crazy, which was released on October 21, 2008. Tony Brown's album, which was available on vinyl and CD, has been described as a gritty collection of songs about drinking and losing love. It featured a duet with George Strait titled "Everything But Quits," a re-recording of Strait's "The King of Broken Hearts" that first appeared on the Pure Country soundtrack. Keith Urban's "The Bees" album features vocals from him.

Womack's "There Is a God" lead-off single to her forthcoming seventh studio album, which never appeared. The album debuted at No. 1 in the United States. The Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of November 14, 2009, ranked 60, with the peaking at No. 61. In early 2010, the 32-year-old was 32. Womack has included a few tracks from her album, including "Talking Behind Your Back" and "You Do Until You Don't."

Womack performed the new song "Liars Lie" on the soundtrack for the film Country Strong in October 2010. In addition to Alan Jackson's cover of "Ring of Fire," which was released as a single from his compilation album, 34 Number Ones, Womack contributed guest vocals to Alan Jackson's cover of the song "Ring of Fire." His version of the song hit number 45 on the Hot Country Songs charts, peaking at number 45. Despite the fact that Womack is on the radio, she is not given credit on the charts.

Womack left MCA Nashville in August 2012 after being apart from it.

Womack became a member of Sugar Hill Records in April 2014. The Way I'm Livin', the label's first album, was released on September 23, 2014. Critics applauded the return of the democratic traditionalist. Rolling Stone praised Livin's "feels like something Merle Haggard or Waylon Jennings might have made back in the Seventies," Spin said, "Nashville is brimming with artists making "the record they were born to make." Womack is one of the few people who actually delivers with Livin'.

"Life" was the only country album to make Esquire magazine's Top Albums of 2014. It was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Country Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, in 2015. Womack has also been nominated for Album of the Year and Artist of the Year, as well as her first CMA Female Vocalist of the Year award in ten years.

Womack worked with American R&B singer John Legend on CMT Crossroads on September 26, 2014. Womack appeared at the C2C: Country to Country festival in the United Kingdom ahead of her 2015 tour in favor of The Way I'm Livin'.

Womack announced her latest album The Lonesome, the Lonesome & the Gone, on August 15, 2017.

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