Blake Shelton

Blake Shelton began his career in 2001 with the release of his debut single and album both titled 'Austin', with the single staying at number one for 5 weeks on the Billboard hot country songs. He has since gone onto relase another four ablums and has just released an ep disk at the beginning of 2010. He has had 5 number one's on the country charts from these albums. Watch a live performance of Blake's song 'Don't Make Me' from his fourth album 'Pure BS' below.

Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert released her first album in 2005 after finishing 3rd on 'Nashville Star', a country music talent show, in 2003. The album titled 'Kerosene' debuted at number 1 on the Billboard top country album charts and the album produced 4 top 40 singles on the country charts. Miranda's second album ' Crazy Ex Girlfriend' was released in 2007 and included the single 'More Like Her' Her third and most recent album was released in late 2009 and is titled 'Revolution'.Watch Miranda perform one of the songs from her latest album called 'The House That Built Me' below.

Random facts about Miranda

• Miranda has been dating fellow country singer Blake Shelton since 2006 and has written song with him that appear on her new album. She also co wrote and dueted with him on a song for his 2008 album 'Startin' Fires' called 'Bare Skin Rug.
• Miranda is only the third female singer to have three records debut at number 1 on the Billboard country album charts.
• Miranda won album of the year at the ACM awards in 2008. Watch Miranda sing one of the singles from the album at the 2008 CMAs below.

Kellie Pickler

Kellie Pickler started her career when she auditioned for the fifth season of American Idol. She finished in 6th place and then she signed a record deal in 2006. Her first album 'Small Town Girl' was released in late 2006. The album contains very personal songs such as 'I Wonder' which she co-wrote about her childhood without her mother. There are also upbeat songs such as her first single 'Red High Heels'. Kellie released her second album in 2008 which produced her first top 10 hit 'Best Days Of Your Life' which she co wrote with Taylor Swift. Listen to 'I Wonder' below.

Random Facts about Kellie

• Kellie is close friends with Taylor Swift and joined her on her Fearless tour around America.
• Her idol is Dolly Parton
• Kellie is a vegetarian

Watch this hilarious video of Kellie appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Reba McEntire

Reba McEntire has been on the country music scene since the 1970s and was the most successful female recording artist in country music during the 1980s and 1990s, where she had 22 number one hits. Reba started singing young and was in a band with her brother Pake and sister Susie. They were known as 'The Singing McEntires' and would sing at rodeo events. Reba also stared in her own sitcom which aired from 2001 to 200. She has also writen an autobiography which was published in 1994 (as I said to the right I don't really read books, however this is one book that I have read from cover to cover). Below is a video from Reba's latest album 'Keep On Loving You' called 'Strange'.

Random facts about Reba

• During the 1980s and 1990s Reba released five gold albums, six platinum albums, two double-platinum albums, four triple-platinum albums, a quadruple-platinum album, and a quintuple-platinum album, for certified album sales of 33.5 million over the 20-year period.
• Reba joined Kelly Clarkson to take part in Crossroads, a show were a country singer or band sings with another artist or band, and they perform each others songs and also cover other artists songs. They also then toured around America together on the tour '2 Worlds 2 Voices'. Reba and Kelly also recorded a version of Kelly's song 'Because of You' which appears on Reba's album of duets.
• Reba released songs without releasing music videos in her early career and her first music video was released in 1986 for the song 'Whoever's In New England' Watch the video below.

LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn Rimes is the person who got me to like country music. She started her career very young and by the age of 14 she had won 2 Grammy awards. LeAnn has released 10 studio albums and is still only 27 years old. She was 13 when she first started to release music and was the youngest country singer since Tanya Tucker in the early 70s. LeAnn has also crossed over into the pop music scene and released a more pop album in 2006 titled 'whatever We Wanna'. This album was only released outside on the United States and Canada. LeAnn also had a major part in the sound track of the film for Coyote Ugly and appears in the film performing her hit 'Can't Fight The Moonlight'. LeAnn's first single was titled 'Blue' and was originally written for Patsy Cline however she sadly died before she recorded the song. Watch a video of LeAnn singing an acoustic version of 'Blue' live at Abby Road below.

Random facts about LeAnn

• LeAnn is the youngest person to win a Grammy at the age of 14 followed by Christina Aguilera, Rihanna ,Joss Stone, Beyonce and Alison Krauss all being 19 years old.
• She is also the first country singer to win best new artist at the Grammy awards.
• LeAnn had sung many duets with country artists such as Reba McEntire and also other artists such as Delta Goodrem, Brian McFadden and Ronan Keating.
• LeAnn also sang with Joss Stone when she took part in a show called Crossroads were a country singer or band sings with another artist or band, were they perform each others songs and also cover other artists songs. Watch a video of LeAnn and Joss singing LeAnn's famous song 'How Do I Live' below.

Lady Antebellum

Lady Antebellum are a relatively new country band formed in 2006.The band has three members Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott (who both sing lead and background vocals) and Dave Haywood (who mainly plays guitar, piano and background vocals). They have released two albums, the first was released in 2008 and was called 'Lady Antebellum' and their second was released at the beginning of 2010 and had the same title as the lead single 'Need You Now'. The album has reached number one on the billboard top 100 albums and is currently number one on the country charts. Watch a mix of their first number one song 'I Run To You' and their latest number one 'Need You Now' performed live on Oprah below.

Random facts about Lady Antebellum

• They are also known to their fan as 'Lady A'.
• They came up with their name when they were taking pictures near some antebellum homes.
• On their YouTube account they has 'Webisode Wednesday' were they keep there fans up to date on what has been happening that week or sometimes perform a live songs. Watch an episode of Webisode Wednesday below and get to know a bit more about Lady Antebellum.

Keith Urban

Keith Urban was born in New Zealand, and moved to Australia when he was young.He started releasing music in the early 90s and moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1992 however he did not start releasing any solo album until 1999. He has won too many awards to name and is an amazingly talented artist. Here is a song from his album Love Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing released in 2006.

Random facts about Keith

• Keith is married to Nicole Kidman and has been since 25th june 2006.
• Formed the group 'The Ranch' and released an albumin 1997.
• Keith is 5'10''.
• He has a daughter called Sunday Rose who was born on July 7th 2008. Watch the video below to hear Keith talk about Sunday and how she got her name.