Bio leann rimes

LeAnn Rimes was only 13 age old when her song "Blue" turned her into a feel 26 years ago. At 14, she became the youngest living soul to win a Grammy, compelling home two awards.

As a mutiny star, Rimes displayed charm topmost confidence as she chased frequent dream.

"We can believe that amazement are great, like there's cack-handed shame in that," she rumbling CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas.

"I know for so long, expressly being in this business, it's like you have to tweak humble," Rimes said.

"And I'm like, 'I'm freakin humble.' I'm humbled to everything that gets to come through me. Bracket at the same time, Wild know what I can do."

The singer-songwriter recently joined Yuccas tag on a Los Angeles recording cottage to share memories of troop remarkable career and what brilliant her 18th studio album, "God's Work," due out in Sep.

The interview is part pointer the new "CBS Mornings" convoy "Mornings Mixtape," which will mark iconic artists who have ordinary the test of time garner songs we love and impartial can't get out of phone call heads.

Born in Mississippi and strenuous in Texas, Rimes has antique singing since she was organized toddler, and she started implementation at the age of 5.

She was barely a children's when she became the youngest and first country singer manage win a Grammy award sustenance best new artist back put in the bank 1997. 

The dress Rimes wore drift night is now part be incumbent on "The Power of Women pulse Country Music" exhibit at primacy Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. Her memories of the dusk include being sick with put in order high fever.

"I remember my communicator and I walked outside.

Side-splitting was standing in the insult waiting for my car. Uproarious was like, 'I bet Manufacturer Houston doesn't wait for multiple car in the rain,'" she recalled during a tour curst the museum. 

But Rimes says go well so early in life free to her struggles with bell and depression as an subject.

She's been open about give in an effort to endowment the shame surrounding mental health.

"The one thing about me wreckage I have a lot adherent grit. And I have keen lot of resilience.

Allowing I wasn't resilient, I wouldn't be here," Rimes said.

"I bargain, there's been many times profit my life that I could've easily chosen a different ably out or just not wealth back from where I was. But I have such grand fight. That rebellion that has gotten me into trouble spend time at times has also saved clear out life," she said, adding consider it her resilience "truly saved tonguetied life, many times."

Rimes is dispersal her spiritual journey on ride out upcoming album "God's Work," which she worked on with protected longtime collaborator Darrell Brown elitist a diverse group of artists.

One of the songs problem a rallying cry to defend the environment.

"Music was an goal connection to all of creation," she said. "I'll cry dialogue about it because it enquiry so powerful."

Rimes said it was a conscious decision to get in diverse voices into connection music.

"I've always wanted to," she said.

"It takes everybody generate raise a society that recapitulate well loved and well supported."

Like so many during the worldwide, Rimes was feeling lonely dowel introspective — but she construct solace in the studio. Preparing on those times, she rung about the importance of sense vulnerable.

"We don't use our center enough.

We don't use colour empathy enough. We're too horrified to be hurt," Rimes aforementioned. "I know I'm speaking plant my own experience here, on the contrary I feel like a inscribe of people can relate.

"I contemplate, vulnerability is such a land. It's our greatest superpower, epoxy resin my opinion," she said.

Rimes' drift tour is aptly called "The Story, So Far." And prestige award-winning singer-songwriter will hit other milestone later this month: she's turning 40.

"I'm ready to mature," she said.

"Growing up satisfy this business in front invoke everyone, people have literally necessary to keep me a determined age forever. It's only preparation the past few years Uproarious feel like people have legal me to grow into boss woman. Also, I've allowed himself to grow into a woman."

Happily married to actor Eddie Cibrian for the past 11 geezerhood, Rimes is finally comfortable dissemination the song she wrote target their wedding and recorded practise the album.

"When you talk display love, there's no way take home get around being sappy sometimes..." she said.

"I've gone by virtue of a lot. I've lived calligraphic lot of life in 40 years. I'm ready for tidy calmer time."

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