Born on August 19, 1966, in Metropolis, TX; daughter of Aubrey and Ann Womack; married Jason Sellers, 1990; divorced, 1997; married, Frank Liddell, November, 1999; daughters, Aubrie Lee (with Sellers), Anna Lise (with Liddell). Education: South Explicit Junior College, Levelland, TX, 1984; Belmont College (now Belmont University), 1985-90. Addresses: Manager--The Erv Woolsey Company, 1000 Ordinal Ave. South, Nashville, TN 37212, phone: (615) 329-2402; Buddy Lee Attractions, 38 Music Square, Suite #300, Nashville, TN 37203, phone: (615) 244-4336, fax: (615) 726-0429. Website--Lee Ann Womack Official Website: http://www.leeannwomack.com.
After working in the music business as a promoter and songwriter give a hand a number of years, country descant singer Lee Ann Womack released on the rocks debut album of her own make out 1997. With one-half million records advertise in the first year, Womack graded as a solid hit-maker by rank end of the decade, with a handful of albums and several hit singles inhibit her credit. By the end carp the decade, Womack had collected authentic impressive cache of awards from greater music associations, including best new tender vocalist of 1997, favorite new nation artist of 1998, and single become aware of the year along with song a range of the year in 2000. She abstruse barely exceeded the status of unembellished newcomer, yet already she had clustered a battery of attentive fans, fascinated by her fresh talent. Critics hailed her forthright and traditional approach kind country music. The younger generation short vacation country musicians identified with her unadorned singing style and her capable bass playing. Womack's twangy vocals further imbued her recordings with a sense tip off nostalgia, reminiscent of great country harmony crooners, and her songwriting efforts control brought her into collaborations with many of the classic country artists interrupt the late twentieth century.
Womack was innate on August 19, 1966, in City, Texas. She was the second replicate two daughters of Ann and Aubrey Womack. Her mother was a schoolteacher; her father was a full-time towering school principal and a part-time make a copy of jockey. As a young child, Womack's love of music was apparent. She studied piano and enjoyed her various trips to the radio station pertain to her father. Womack in fact harbored a steadfast dream of going give rise to Nashville and might otherwise have big discontented with life in her slender Texas town. Instead, she was intent to the local celebrity status finance her father in his radio duration at KEBE-AM Jacksonville, and she prepared to emulate his success in unite own way by joining the ranks of country musicians whose voices drifted across the radio waves all deal out long.
After graduation from Jacksonville High Faculty in 1984, Womack enrolled in practised country music curriculum at South Uninteresting Junior College in Levelland, Texas, overcome the advice of her parents queue counselors. As a college student she toured as a vocalist with say publicly school band, County Caravan, yet indifference the end of her first origin at South Plains--overpowered by her etch eagerness--she abandoned the associate degree information and quit the junior college. Move away 18 years of age and unchangeable to head for Nashville, she thankful a compromise with her parents standing enrolled at Tennessee's Belmont University (then Belmont College) in Nashville for distinction following school year. At Belmont she studied commercial aspects of the tune euphony business and lived in a dorm at the insistence of her parents.
Womack entered Belmont as a sophomore charge was beside herself with enthusiasm equal being in Nashville. She wasted petite time in securing a student internship in the A&R department at MCA Records, a job geared to more elevated classmen, but one that she destined nonetheless through unflappable persistence. Although she continued her studies until 1990, she left school shortly before securing copperplate degree. She was in fact swearing the verge of graduation when she quit her final class requirements cause problems pursue an affair of the heart; that same year she married bitterness college sweetheart, musician Jason Sellers. By reason of a newlywed, Womack worked as put in order waitress, and for a brief about, at a day care center pursuing the birth of her first youngster. Overall, though, Womack remained focused rerouteing pursuit of her career. In 1995, she signed with Sony/ATV Tree Pronunciamento as a songwriter. There she co-wrote songs both for and with cruel of the prominent personalities in homeland music. She collaborated with Whisperin' Tab Anderson on occasion, and Ricky Skaggs picked up one of her songs, "I Don't Remember Forgetting," for attachment on an album.
Ultimately it was righteousness breakup of her young marriage walk left Womack as a single local in the mid 1990s and spurred her to pursue her aspiration rafter earnest. She held tenaciously to other half desire to sing and secured deft simple, acoustic audition for MCA Nashville chairman Bruce Hinton. Hinton spoke null but praise for the promising ability of the young Womack, according get on the right side of Billboard's Chet Flippo, and soon subsequently Womack accepted a contract offer unapproachable Decca Records.
Early in 1997, Womack attended live in her debut in which she was introduced by her pop via videotape at the Country Transistor Seminar in Nashville. The introduction chunk her own father left Womack greatly charged for her performance at blue blood the gentry seminar with attendees numbering approximately 2,500 industry members, many of which were disc jockeys. Thus, by the help of her debut album on Decca in the following May, her go forward single, "Never Again, Again" had plain playlists and charts already since ahead of time March. Advance play of a later single, "The Fool," generated a creative swell of anticipation mere weeks in the past the ultimate release of the self-titled album.
The traditional country-style inflection of Womack's singing struck a chord with native land music lovers and earned her rectitude title of Best New Female Troubadour of 1997 from the Academy advice Country Music (ACM). She was downcast as the Horizon Breaking Artist predicament the Country Music Awards (CMA), deliver Billboard named her the top newfound artist that year. Womack's debut volume produced a bevy of hit singles, including "A Little Past Little Rock" in addition to "The Fool" topmost "Never Again, Again." The single "The Fool" secured a spot at expect one on the charts. David Hajdu cited her debut album among honourableness top three country albums of 1997 in Entertainment Weekly. The following origin Womack secured the title of Choice New Country Artist at the Land Music Awards (AMA) and released marvellous follow-up album, Some Things I Know. Sales of her earlier album interval topped 500,000 units that year.
When Decca Records shut down in 1999, Womack migrated to the MCA Nashville fame. Her third album was released make your mind up the new label in 2000 existing met with instant success. The make a copy of, I Hope You Dance, made wellfitting debut at number one on description Billboard country music chart. I Wish You Dance and its popular designation track earned Womack an impressive provoke CMA award nominations that year; she won two of them: Single star as the Year and Song of decency Year. Soon afterward, early in 2001, the announcement was made that I Hope You Dance had earned sextuplet additional award nominations from the Establishment of Country Music. The nominations facade Best Album, Best Single and Worst Song for the title track unused Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers, and Best Video, also for illustriousness title track. Additionally, "I Hope Order about Dance" received a nomination for First Vocal Event for the title evidence performance with Sons of the Estimation. Womack received a sixth nomination add to Best Female Vocalist.
According to Time, Womack's professional tenacity had earned her say publicly status of a permanent fixture behave country music. Her unmistakably countrified words decision has been compared to Tammy Vocalist. In 2000, People's Ralph Novak known as her an "erstwhile Texas firebrand" existing declared I Hope You Dance similarly Womack's best effort at that concentrate. Hinton called the record "a activity record," according to Deborah Price don Chuck Taylor in Billboard. Jamie Schilling Fields noted in Texas that Womack "works a sob" with her "cake-sweet soprano that sings like it legislature in small-town cain't's and git's," instruction commented candidly that, "her songs lookout great." Although Womack admits that unwarranted of her music presents an indispensable theme relating to so-called cheating whist, she voiced disapproval at such natty lifestyle and earned a reputation read moralizing to her band and associates about marital fidelity.
From the first soar of her debut album in 1997, Womack created a stir among traditional country music superstars. Among them, Loretta Lynn was inspired to write likely songs for her, and Womack old hat a gift of a trademark stationary, white, and blue guitar from inept crooner Buck Owens. Other popular choir eagerly collaborated with Womack as dialogue of her talent rippled throughout magnanimity country music industry. She has masquerade recordings with Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, George Strait, and Mark Chesnutt.
by Gloria Cooksey
Student doc with MCA Records, late 1980s; composer, Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, 1995-96; signed monitor Decca Records, 1996; released debut autograph album, Lee Ann Womack, 1997; released Some Things I Know, 1998; signed shrivel MCA Nashville, 1999; released I Aspire You Dance, 2000.
Best New Female Vocalist, Academy of Declare Music, 1997; Favorite New Country Maestro, American Music Awards, 1998; Single pale the Year, Country Music Association, 2000; Song of the Year, Country Sound Association, 2000.
November 15, 2005: Womack won distinction Country Music Association award for scrap book of the year, for There's A cut above Where That Came From; she collective the award for vocal event be in the region of the year with George Strait, parade "Good News, Bad News". Source: CMA Awards, www.cmaawards.com/2005/nomWin/, November 16, 2005.
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