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Backround
Carrie Underwood was born on March 10, 1983 in a small town named Muskogee, Oklahoma. Underwood has two older sisters. Her mom is a school teacher and her dad is a paper-mill operator. She started singing at church, school plays, and local talent shows (wang). (Wang) -
American Idol
In the summer of 2004, Carrie Underwood tried out for American Idol. She was a favoirite from the beggining. On the show she had amazing success. She was crowned winner against Bo Bice on May 25, 2005 (Wang). (Wang) -
First SIngle
Carrie Underwood releases her first single "Inside you Heaven". The song was written for her by Idol. The single made it to the number one spot Billboard Hot 100 chart (Wang). -
Jesus Take the Wheel
On October 18, 2005 Underwood made another new hot single. Jesus take the Wheel made it to the Billboard number one spot. It was the first country song to ever hit the top fourties on Billboard. She recivced the CMT Breakthrough Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year in April 2006. They were her first awards for her music (Wang). (Underwood) -
Grammy
Carrie Underwood takes home three Grammy awards at the 2007 Grammys (Wang). -
Wedding
Carrie Underwood got married on July 10, 2010 to the NHL star, Mike Fisher. They got married at the Ritz Carlton Reynolds Plantation in Georgia (Wang). (Finan) -
Chicago Tribune
Carrie Underwood has a Q and A with Gerrick D. Kennedy of the Chicago Tribune. Underwood talks about her tour in Europe, how she keeps her country music career alive, and how she feels about the new T.V. show Nashville. Unserwood says that touring in Europe was great and she felt welcomed by everyone over there. She was suprised when they all knew her music and sang along (Kennedy). (Kennedy) -
Football
Carrie Underwood is now singing the NFL theme song for Sunday nights. She has made it to be her own and is pround to sing for all the NFL players (Coulehan). -
Sound of Music
Carrie Underwood is now governess Maria Von Trapp. She is playing the rold of Maria from the classic movie The Sound of Music. It is being turned into a live TV production on December 5, 2013 (McDonnell). (McDonnell) -
Emmys
A the 65th Emmy Awards Carrie Underwood made a tribute to the Beatles. She sang their hit song "Yesterday". Underwoods performance was beautiful and moving. The star's tribute was the most tweeted about Emmy moment ever gathering abur 17,090 tweets per minute (Chmielewski). -
New Album
Carrie Underwood is still rocking thw world today with her country music. She is making headline after headline and impresses her fans with everything she does. Underwood is going to start working on her new album in December after she finnishes her acting on The Sound of Music (Williott). (Williott)
