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.

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is one of the best known country artists in the mainstream music world. She has released two albums; her first, a self titled album released in late 2006 when she was 16, and then her second album called fearless which was released in late 2008 and sold over half a million copies in its first week and went straight to number one on not just the country charts but the Billboard top 200 charts in America. Taylor has won lots of awards including 4 Grammy awards and entertainer of the year at last years CMAs where she became the youngest person ever to win that awards.

Taylor also stars in new film Valentines day and has a song on the soundtrack listen to it below

Random Facts about Taylor

• Taylor was born on the 13th December 1989.
• The number 13 is lucky to Taylor she often has it written on her hand.
• Taylor is 5'11'.
• 'Our Song' was her first country number 1 in America.
• Taylor grew up on a Christmas tree farm.
• Some of her favourite country singers are LeAnn Rimes, Dolly Parton, Shania Twain and Patsy Cline.