Miranda Leigh Lambert was born on November 10,1983 and is an American country singer, songwriter and guitarist.
47 Facts About Miranda Lambert
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Miranda Lambert has been honored with more Academy of Country Music Awards than any artist in history.
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Miranda Lambert later collaborated with singer-songwriters Jon Randall and Jack Ingram for the album The Marfa Tapes, departing from her usual sound and opting for an acoustic, stripped-back feel.
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Miranda Lambert released her eighth solo album Palomino on April 29,2022.
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Miranda Leigh Lambert was born November 10,1983, to Rick and Bev Lambert in Longview, Texas, and was raised in Lindale, Texas.
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Miranda Lambert's 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.
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At 16, Miranda 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.
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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.
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Miranda Lambert went back to Texas in 2000 and asked her father to teach her how to play guitar, so she could write her own songs.
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In 2002, Dusty Meador hired Miranda Lambert to perform at Tye Phelps' country music restaurant and venue Love and War in Texas.
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Miranda Lambert continued to perform around the Texas Music Scene opening for Cooder Graw, Kevin Fowler, and Jack Ingram.
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Miranda Lambert toured with Keith Urban and George Strait in early 2006.
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Miranda Lambert wrote eight of the album's 11 tracks, including its four singles.
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In 2005, at the 40th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, Miranda Lambert won the CoverGirl "Fresh Face of Country Music Award".
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Miranda Lambert was nominated for the Country Music Association's Horizon Award in 2005; in 2007, Lambert received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her single "Kerosene".
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Miranda Lambert won the Top New Female Vocalist award at the 2007 ACM Awards.
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Miranda Lambert released her third album, Revolution, on September 29,2009.
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Miranda Lambert co-wrote 11 of the album's 15 tracks; the album includes co-writes from Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum and Blake Shelton.
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Miranda Lambert debuted her new single, "Dead Flowers", at the 44th annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 5,2009.
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On September 1,2010, it was announced that Miranda Lambert had received a record-setting 9 CMA award nominations.
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Miranda Lambert performed at the 44th Annual Country Music Association Awards on November 10,2010.
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Miranda Lambert won the CMA Award for Female Vocalist of the Year, and her Revolution won Album of the Year.
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On February 13,2011, Miranda Lambert won a Grammy Award in the Best Female Country Vocal Performance category for "The House That Built Me".
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Late in 2012, Miranda Lambert appeared on Shelton's Christmas album Cheers, It's Christmas, to which she contributed guest vocals on a version of "Jingle Bell Rock".
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In March 2016, Miranda Lambert made her first ever performances outside the US and Canada as one of the headliners of C2C: Country to Country, Europe's biggest country music festival, which saw Miranda Lambert play in England, Scotland and Ireland alongside Dwight Yoakam, Thomas Rhett and Ashley Monroe.
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On July 18,2016, Miranda Lambert released "Vice" to country radio and digital outlets.
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In September, Miranda Lambert announced her sixth studio album, The Weight of These Wings, which was released on November 18,2016.
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Miranda Lambert announced that the lead-off single from her seventh studio album would be "It All Comes Out in the Wash", which was released on July 18,2019.
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In promotion of the album, Miranda Lambert announced the 27-date Wildcard Tour, which was set to begin on January 16,2020, and run through May 9,2020, but which had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Miranda Lambert hinted at an upcoming project with longtime friends and collaborators Jon Randall and Jack Ingram via her social media accounts on March 2,2021, before announcing their upcoming collaborative acoustic record The Marfa Tapes in the following days, to be released on May 7.
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Around this time, Miranda Lambert replied to a comment regarding her band the Pistol Annies in the comments section of her Instagram post, fuelling speculation that a new Pistol Annies project might be in the works for 2021.
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On December 30,2021, Miranda Lambert released "Y'all Means All" in support of the LGBTQ community.
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Miranda Lambert was nominated for 5 awards, marking her record-breaking 16th nomination for Female Vocalist of the Year, and she won Video of the Year for "Drunk ", and as well as the top prize of the night, Entertainer of the Year, for the first time in her career.
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In March 2023, Miranda Lambert announced that she was leaving Sony Music Nashville after nineteen years.
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Miranda Lambert 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".
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Under the partnership, Ram gave Miranda Lambert a customized 1500 Laramie Longhorn which she auctioned off, with proceeds going to Miranda Lambert's Muttnation Foundation which betters the lives for shelter animals.
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In May 2021, Miranda Lambert became the first female artist to open her own bar in the Lower Broadway entertainment district of downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
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At the bar's opening night party on May 25,2021, Miranda Lambert performed a duet of "Summer Nights" from Grease with her husband Brendan McLoughlin, amidst a star-studded lineup of performances from other country singers.
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Miranda Lambert has her own clothing line titled Idyllwind, a brand of wine with the Red 55 Winery imprint, and owns The Pink Pistol boutique in her hometown of Lindale, Texas.
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In 2009, Miranda Lambert opened MuttNation Foundation, with her mother, Bev.
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The organization focuses on rescue animals and shelters, and Miranda Lambert has been vocal about the cause being very close to her heart.
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In 2014, Miranda Lambert opened Redemption Ranch, a shelter in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, her adopted home town where she lived with Shelton.
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Miranda Lambert started dating Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker in February 2018.
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Miranda Lambert's estranged wife, Staci, has alleged that he left her suddenly to be with Lambert.
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On February 16,2019, Miranda Lambert announced on social media that she married New York City Police Department Officer Brendan McLoughlin on January 26,2019, in Davidson County, Tennessee.
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Miranda Lambert has nine tattoos of various objects and symbols, and the word "tumbleweed".
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Miranda Lambert has won three Grammy Awards out of twenty-five nominations.