Miranda Leigh Lambert is an American country music singer and songwriter. Lambert has been honored by the Grammy Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards. 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 album, Wildcard, is scheduled for release on November 1, 2019.
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Miranda Leigh Lambert is an American country music singer and songwriter. Lambert has been honored by the Grammy Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards. She is a member of the Pistol Annies formed in 2011 alongside Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. 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 album, Wildcard, is scheduled for release on November 1, 2019. Lambert was born November 10, 1983, to Rick and Bev Lambert in Longview, Texas, and was raised in Lindale, Texas. Her parents met while Bev was attending camp at Southern Methodist University and Rick was an on-campus undercover narcotics officer, and they got together a few years later. Rick is a former Dallas police officer who played in a country-rock group called Contraband in the 1970s. His wife Bev later became private detectives and even worked on the high-profile case of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. After the oil crisis dampened the economy in Texas, her family lost everything. She has said that this experience fueled her music and that her song “Gunpowder & Lead’ is a reflection of that. Lambert’s parents began a faith-based ministry and offered their home as a shelter for the victims of domestic violence and their children. She went back to Texas in 2000 and asked her father to teach her how to play guitar, so she could write her own songs.
In 2001, she released her self-titled debut album which consisted of 10 tracks. In 2002, Dusty Meador hired Lambert to perform at Tye Phelps’ country music restaurant and Love and War. In 2003, she auditioned for the talent competition Nashville Star, where she earned a third-place finish behind Buddy Jewell and John Arthur Martinez. On September 15, 2003, Lambert signed with Epic Records and released her debut album titled Kerosene. The album comprised 12 songs, which she wrote or co-written by her father and Heather Little, which was released in summer of 2004 as the lead single to her debut, “Me and Charlie Talking’’. Lambert’s second and major-label debut album was certified Platinum in the United States and produced the singles “Bring Me Down,” “Kerosene” and “New Strings” All four singles reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Three of its singles peaked within the top 20 on the country songs chart, with \”Gunpowder and Lead” becoming her first top 10 entry in July 2008. 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 top 5 on the Country charts. She also fronted the house band at the Reo Palm Isle, a long-running venue that had presented legends such as Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson.
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