Miranda Lambert is an American country music singer and songwriter. She rose into prominence in 2001 when she released her debut album of 10 tracks.
Miranda Leigh Lambert was born November 10, 1983, to Rick and Bev Lambert in Longview, Texas, and was raised in Lindale, Texas. She was named after her great-grandmother, Lucy Miranda.
Lambert’s second debut album Kerosene was certified Platinum in the United States and produced the singles “Me and Charlie Talking”, “Bring Me Down”, “Kerosene” and “New Strings”.
All four singles reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs. Her second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, was released in early 2007.
Three of its singles (“Famous in a Small Town”, “Gunpowder & Lead” and “More Like Her”) peaked within the top 20 on the country songs chart, with “Gunpowder & Lead” becoming her first top 10 entry in July 2008.
2011’s Four the Record included the singles “Baggage Claim”, “Over You”, “Fastest Girl in Town”, “Mama’s Broken Heart”, and “All Kinds of Kinds”. Lambert released her fifth album, Platinum, in 2014.
The record won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and the album’s lead single “Automatic” reached the top five on the Country charts. Her sixth studio album, The Weight of These Wings, was released on November 18, 2016, and subsequently certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Her seventh studio album, Wildcard, was released on November 1, 2019, and went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Country Album in early 2021.
Full Name: Miranda Leigh Lambert
Date of Birth: November 10, 1983
Place of Birth: Longview, Texas, U.S.[2]
Age: 38
Nationality: American
Genre: Country, country rock
Occupation: Singer, songwriter, Activist
Personal Life:
Lambert started dating singer Blake Shelton in 2006, They got married in 2011 in Texas. they announced their divorce in 2015.
She also dated R&B singer Anderson East before they broke up in 2018, she married New York City Police Department Officer Brendan McLoughlin in 2019.
Record label: Epic Nashville, Columbia Nashville, RCA NashvilleVanner
Instruments: Vocals, guitar, keyboard, piano, washboard
Net-worth: $60 million
Career:
She released her debut single, “Me and Charlie Talking”, co-written by her father and Heather Little, was released in the summer of 2004 as the lead single to her debut album, titled Kerosene.
The album comprised 12 songs, 11 of which she wrote or co-wrote. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums charts, and eventually gained a Platinum certification by the RIAA for shipments of over one million copies, selling more than 930,000 copies up to July 2008.
Overall, the album produced four Top 40 singles on the Billboard country charts, including the title track which was a Top 20 hit.
Lambert released her third album, Revolution, on September 29, 2009. She co-wrote 11 of the album’s 15 tracks; the album also includes co-writes from Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum and Blake Shelton.
“Automatic”, the lead single from Lambert’s fifth studio album, Platinum, was released in 2014.
The album, containing 16 songs, was released on June 3, 2014. The album’s second single, “Somethin’ Bad”, is a duet with Carrie Underwood and was debuted on the 2014 Billboard Music Awards on May 18.
The album’s third single, “Little Red Wagon”, was released to country radio in January 2015.
The album’s fourth single, “Smokin’ and Drinkin'” was released to country radio in June 2015.
Miranda Lambert and Elle King’s 2021 collaboration “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” was certified platinum in February, and the two performed the song together at the Ryman Auditorium on Feb 28th to celebrate.[77] The single has so far reached the top 10 of the country charts.
Lambert released a teaser for a new song titled “Strange” ahead of the ACM Awards, which were held on March 7 in Vegas. She was nominated for 5 awards, marking her record-breaking 16th nomination for Female Vocalist of the Year, and she won Video of the Year for “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)”, and as well as the top prize of the night, Entertainer of the Year, for the first time in her career.[78] This brings her tally of total ACM Awards won to 37, the most of all time, and also meant that she is eligible for the ACM’s rare and coveted Triple Crown Award.[79]
On March 10, Lambert released “Strange” alongside a video on her YouTube channel, and announced her upcoming eighth solo studio album, Palomino, which is due for release April 29.
The album will include “If I Was A Cowboy” and “Strange”, alongside three re-recorded tracks from her 2021 Marfa Tapes album with Jon Randall and Jack Ingram: “Geraldene”, “In His Arms”, and fan-favourite “Waxachie”.
Lambert headlined Europe’s largest country music festival, C2C: Country 2 Country, in March 2022, marking her first performance in the UK/Europe since her headlining tour there in 2017.
Endorsements:
Lambert and two other singers became the new faces of Cotton Inc.’s revived “The Touch, The Feel of Cotton” campaign.
In December 2014, Lambert’s line of shoes and boots were released at DSW.
Lambert’s partnership with Chrysler’s Ram trucks was announced in 2014, Under the partnership, Ram gave Lambert a customized 1500 Laramie Longhorn which she auctioned off, with proceeds going to Lambert’s Muttnation Foundation which betters the lives for shelter animals.
Lambert became the first female artist to open her own bar in the Lower Broadway entertainment district of downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
She also has her own clothing line titled Idyllwind, a brand of wine with the Red 55 Winery imprint, and owns The Pink Pistol boutique in her hometown of Lindale, Texas.
Songs:
Studio albums
Miranda Lambert (2001)
Kerosene (2005)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007)
Revolution (2009)
Four the Record (2011)
Platinum (2014)
The Weight of These Wings (2016)
Wildcard (2019)
Palomino (2022)
Singles:
“Me and Charlie Talking”
“Bring Me Down”
“Kerosene”
“New Strings”
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”
“Famous in a Small Town”
“Gunpowder & Lead”
“More Like Her”
“Dead Flowers”
“White Liar”
“The House That Built Me”
“Only Prettier”
“Heart Like Mine”
“Baggage Claim”
“Over You”
“Fastest Girl in Town”
