50 facts about Miranda Lambert

50 interesting things about country singer Miranda Lambert.

1. Miranda Leigh Lambert is an American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records.

2. Miranda Lambert made her debut with the release of "Me and Charlie Talking", the first single from her 2005 debut album Kerosene. This album, which was certified Platinum in the United States, also produced the singles "Bring Me Down", "Kerosene", and "New Strings".

3. After Epic's Nashville division closed, Lambert was transferred to Columbia Records Nashville for her second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was released in early 2007.

4. Although the title track failed to make top 40, the next three singles ("Famous in a Small Town", "Gunpowder & Lead", and "More Like Her") were Top 20 hits, with "Gunpowder & Lead" becoming her first Top 10 country hit in July 2008.

5. Her third album, Revolution, was released in September 2009. Five singles were released from the album, including two Number One hits: "The House That Built Me", which spent four weeks at the top; and "Heart Like Mine".

6. Miranda Lambert has also been honored by the Grammy Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards, and the Country Music Association Awards.

7. In 2011, Lambert married fellow country singer Blake Shelton.

8. She also released her fourth album, Four the Record, which includes the singles "Baggage Claim", "Over You", "Fastest Girl in Town", "Mama's Broken Heart", and "All Kinds of Kinds".

9. Miranda Lambert also collaborated with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley in the side project Pistol Annies.

10. Miranda Lambert released her fifth album, "Platinum", in June 2014.

11. The album was preceded by the lead single, "Automatic," which hit top 5 on the Country charts, and won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album.

12. The album's second single, "Somethin' Bad", featured Carrie Underwood.

13. In July 2015, Lambert and Shelton announced the end of their marriage.

14. Miranda Lambert was born November 10, 1983 in Longview, Texas and was raised in Lindale, Texas.

15. Miranda Lambert was named after her great-grandmother, Lucy Miranda.

16. Her father, Rick Lambert, was a police officer who later became a private investigator in partnership with Miranda's mother, Beverly.

17. She has Irish and Native American ancestry.

18. At 16, Lambert appeared on the Johnnie High Country Music Revue in Arlington, Texas, the same talent show that had helped launch the career of LeAnn Rimes.

19. Miranda Lambert then acquired a recording session in Nashville, Tennessee, but left the studio after she became frustrated with the "pop" type of music presented to her. She went back to Texas in 2000 and asked her dad to teach her how to play guitar, so she could write her own songs.

20. While still in high school, Lambert made her professional singing debut with "The Texas Pride Band".

21. Miranda Lambert also fronted the house band at the Reo Palm Isle in Longview, Texas, a long-running venue that had presented legends such as Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson, and the place where Brooks & Dunn started out as the house band.

22. In 2002, while performing at Tye Phelps' country music restaurant and venue "Love And War in Texas", Miranda and her father, Rick, met entertainment attorney Rod Phelps who had been instrumental in getting Garth Brooks, Chris Cagle and Rory Lee Feek to move to Nashville and helping them get recording and writing deals.

23. Phelps was impressed with the Lamberts and sent letters and demos to producer and record executive Mark Wright and Garth's manager, Bob Doyle. Their positive responses induced Miranda to return to Nashville.

24. In 2003 she auditioned for the talent competition Nashville Star, where she earned a third-place finish.

25. Miranda Lambert performed in many places such as The Tap in College Station, Texas, when she was 18.

26. On September 15, 2003, she signed with Epic Records. Her debut single, "Me and Charlie Talking" (co-written by her father and Heather Little), was released in summer of 2004 as the lead-off single to her debut album.

27. Titled Kerosene, Lambert's first album comprised 12 songs, 11 of which she 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.

28. In 2007, she toured with Dierks Bentley and Toby Keith.

29. Lambert's second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was released on May 9, 2007. She wrote eight of the album's 11 tracks, including its four singles. Much of the track "Gunpowder & Lead," the album's third single and her highest-charting single, was written while she was taking a concealed handgun class in her home town.

30. In 2005, at the 40th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, Lambert won the Cover Girl "Fresh Face of Country Music Award".

31. She was also nominated for the Country Music Association's Horizon Award in 2005.

32. In 2007, Lambert also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her single "Kerosene".

33. Miranda Lambert also won the Top New Female Vocalist award at the 2007 ACM (Academy of Country Music) Awards.

34. At the 2008 ACM (Academy of Country Music) Awards, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend won Album of the Year.

35. Miranda Lambert was ranked No. 90 on the 100 Greatest Women (of Country Music) by Country Universe in 2008.

36. In February 2009 Lambert recorded her third album, Revolution, which was released on September 29, 2009.

37. Lambert and two other singers, became the new faces of Cotton Inc.'s revived "The Touch, The Feel of Cotton" campaign. She has appeared in ads to promote cotton, and the website features a free download of the full version of her song, "Fabric of My Life."

38. On September 24, 2009, Lambert and her band performed all the tracks on Revolution in sequence at the Ryman Auditorium, five days before the album's scheduled release date.

39. Miranda Lambert's Revolution received significant critical praise on its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85, based on 11 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".

40. On September 1, 2010, it was announced that Lambert had received a record-setting 9 CMA award nominations. She performed at the 44th Annual Country Music Association Awards on November 10, 2010. She won the CMA Award for Female Vocalist of the Year, and her Revolution won Album of the Year.

41. Miranda Lambert recorded a song for The Hunger Games soundtrack (The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond), called "Run Daddy Run" featuring The Pistol Annies. The soundtrack was released on March 20, 2012.

42. On October 23, Lambert and Dierks Bentley announced the co-headlined 33-show Locked & Reloaded Tour, beginning on January 17, 2013.

43. Miranda Lambert made her acting debut on NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in an episode titled "Father's Shadow", on February 8, 2012. She portrayed an actress who falls under the spell of a nefarious producer, and who later claims to have been sexually assaulted by the reality show producer

44. On April 4, 2011, during the taping of the Academy of Country Music's 'Girls' Night Out' television special in Las Vegas, Lambert debuted her new project, girl group Pistol Annies. The group consists of Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley.

45. In 2006, Lambert began dating fellow country singer Blake Shelton.

46. Miranda Lambert sang backing vocals on Shelton's 2008 country cover of Michael Bublé's song "Home".

47. Shelton also co-wrote three songs on Revolution, and provided background vocals on "Maintain the Pain".

48. On May 9, 2010, Shelton proposed to Lambert after receiving her father's blessing and they became engaged. The two were married on May 14, 2011, at the Don Strange Ranch in Boerne, Texas. MWearing her mother's wedding dress, Lambert exchanged vows with Shelton in front of 550 family members and friends, including fellow celebrities Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson, Cee Lo Green, Martina McBride, Dierks Bentley, Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum, Trace Adkins, and The Bellamy Brothers.

49. On July 20, 2015, Lambert and Shelton confirmed that they were divorcing after four years of marriage.

50. On February 21, 2013, Lambert appeared on Project Runway. The show's contestants were tasked with designing two outfits for the singer: one performance look and one red carpet look.

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