Miranda Lambert

Miranda dated fellow country music singer, Blake Shelton, for five years before they got married in May 2011 at the Don Strange Ranch in Boerne, Texas. However, the couple separated four years later and went their separate ways.

Following her divorce, she retained the ownership of her suburban mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, costing $ 2.258 million. She also later purchased a farm house near Primm Springs, Tennessee for $3.4 million.

She went on to date R&B singer, Anderson East, who she met at the Nashville’s Live on the Green Music Festival in September 2015.

Miranda Leigh Lambert was born on 10 November 1983 in Longview, Texas, USA to Rick and Beverly Lambert. Her father was a cop who played in a local country rock group called ‘Contraband’. She grew up in Lindale where her mother ran a private investigating agency that was later partnered by her father. She is of English, Irish and Native American decent.

Miranda entered her first country music talent show at the age of 10 and started professional singing while still in high school. She made her singing debut with the ‘Texas Pride Band’ and also sang for a house band in Reo Palm Isle, Longview, Texas. She was influenced by legends like Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson who also started their career in a house band.

She launched her professional career with her performance at the Jonnie High Country Music Revue in Arlington, Texas, after which she was given a recording session at Nashville Tennessee. However, she did not much care for the type of pop music offered to her and said that she was not ready to go into recording at that stage.

Her love for country music, which she grew up with in Texas, prompted her to ask her father to teach her how to play the guitar and soon she began writing her own songs. By 2002, she started performing country music at local restaurants and became part of the Texas country music scene with the full financial support of her parents.

In 2003, she took part in the talent competition, ‘Nashville Star’, where she finished second runner-up. During her audition, she caught the attention of Tracy Gershon who later got her signed for a contract with Sony Records.

Her debut single, ‘Me and Charlie Talking’, which was a tale on puppy love, was co-written with her father and released through Epic Records in 2003. It became the lead song for her debut album titled ‘Kerosene’ which was released the next year. The album was listed at number one on the Billboard ‘Top Country Albums’ chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award. It also got a platinum certificate by RIAA for selling over one million copies.

She toured with Keith Urban, George Strait, Dierks Bentley and Toby Keith after the release of her first album and worked on her second album titled ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’, which was released in May 2007. The album was announced as the ‘Album of the Year’ at the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards.

Her third album, ‘Revolution’ was released in 2009 for which she wrote 11 out of the 15 tracks with fellow country star, Blake Shelton. The album’s second single ‘White Liar’ was her first number to reach the top 5 on the ‘US Billboard Hot Country Songs’ chart. She performed her new single ‘Dead Flowers’ at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in April 2009.

In order to promote her album, she toured 22 cities with her show titled ‘Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars’ and performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. In 2011, she won a Grammy Award in the ‘Best Female Country Vocal Performance’ category for ‘The House That Built Me’.

Lambert has six studio albums to her credit that include Kerosene (2005), ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ (2007), ‘Platinum’ (2014) and ‘The Weight of These Wings’ (2016).

She also has an independent album titled ‘Miranda Lambert’ (2001).

She made brief appearances in the television serials ‘Law & Order’, ‘The Voice’ and ‘CMT Cross Country’.