LeAnn Rimes
Dec 22, 2022
EP 174 - LeAnn Rimes
Welcome back to The Pretty Intense Podcast. Today on the show is the lovely and beautiful LeAnn Rimes. LeAnn has sold over 48 million records. She has two Grammys, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and the list seriously just goes on and on. She has a new album out called "Gods Work." The Wild is my favorite song on this amazing album. LeAnn is really open. She is spiritual. She is deep. She is introspective, and those are all really good ingredients for an interesting conversation. LeAnn is looking to help others by telling her story. There is so much more to LeAnn than her incredible music. Today on the episode LeAnn shares many of her life lessons. She has had a lot of childhood trauma to face, challenging personal relationships, and a hard battle with depression. There is so much truth in this conversation, and we hope some of LeAnn's sharing helps you to face your battles. Thanks for listening.
Background:
LeAnn Rimes is an international multi-platinum selling acclaimed singer and ASCAP award- winning songwriter who has sold more than 48 million units globally, won 2 Grammy® Awards; 12 Billboard Music Awards; 2 World Music Awards; 3 Academy of Country Music Awards; 2 Country Music Association Awards and one Dove Award. At 14, Rimes won "Best New Artist” making her the youngest solo artist to take home a Grammy® Award, and at 15, she became the first country artist to win “Artist of the Year” at the Billboard Music Awards. Out of the 42 singles she has released throughout her expansive career, LeAnn’s ballad "How Do I Live" holds the record as Billboard’s Hot 100 all-time #1 hit by a female artist and continues to rank #4 on Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time: Hot 100 Song.” 15 of her multi-genre singles are top-10 hits, including "Can't Fight the Moonlight," which went #1 in 11 countries. In 2017, the world-renowned singer released Remnants, which debuted at # 4 on Billboard’s Independent Album Chart, peaked at #3 on iTunes ® overall charts in its first week, garnered two #1 Billboard Dance hits with “Long Live Love” and “LovE is LovE is LovE,” and one Top 5 hit with “Love Line.” In the fall of 2018, Rimes revealed a new EP for her fans titled Re-Imagined that featured five new versions of some of her record-breaking hits, including an epic duet with the music icon Stevie Nicks. In honor of the 2019 Record Store Day, the Grammy-winning superstar unveiled her first-ever LIVE recording as an exclusive vinyl release titled “Rimes: Live at Gruene Hall” where Rimes celebrated music of all genres. Most recently, on September 16th, LeAnn released her highly-anticipated 19th album, god’s work, which is her most genre-bending project to-date, featuring a roster of accomplished artists including Ziggy Marley, Mickey Guyton, Aloe Blacc, Ben Harper, and more. The powerhouse vocalist lit up television screens throughout the 2018 holiday season as she starred and served as an Executive Producer in Hallmark’s “It’s Christmas, Eve,” which earned the highest TV original movie debut to-date for the channel premiering to over 4.3 million viewers. In 2020, Rimes shined the brightest and won season four of FOX’s The Masked Singer, with Entertainment Weekly stating that she delivered “... the most beautiful performance in the history of The Masked Singer.” Most recently, she served as the inspiration judge on the discovery+ competition series, Meet Your Makers Showdown, which started streaming November 2021 and in April of 2022, she headlined an episode of the iconic music series CMT Crossroads alongside Mickey Guyton, Carly Pearce, Ashley McBryde, and Brandy Clark, who helped commemorate Rimes’ career and recognize the path she blazed forward for women in all genres.Passionate about using her voice to help heal the world, LeAnn was honored with the Ally of Equality Award by the Human Rights Campaign for her over 20 years of support of equal rights, the 2019 HOPE Award for Depression Advocacy, and 2009 ACM Humanitarian Award, among other recognitions. She continues to channel her voice in new ways, releasing CHANT: The Human & The Holy (EverLe Records / Thirty Tigers) in 2020, which spent 5 weeks at #1 on iTunes New Age Chart, as well as her iHeartRadio mental health and wholeness podcast, Wholly Human, that brings her lifestyle blog, Soul of EverLe, to life. Wholly Human previously reached #2 on iTunes Health & Fitness Chart, placed in the Top 35 overall for podcasts worldwide and was recently named as one of the 15 best mental health podcasts that educate and empower listeners by Good Housekeeping.
Connect with LeAnn:
IG: @leannrimes
FB: @leannrimesmusic
Twitter: @leannrimes
YouTube: @leannrimesofficial