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Leann Rimes: Patsy Cline
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LeAnn Rimes has been a country star since she was 13 and has something many former teenage sensations lack: a big, versatile voice, well-suited to melismatic power ballads and yodelirious country throwbacks and most of what's in between. But that doesn't mean it has been easy for her to outgrow her former self. Rimes recently turned 25, and though she has always had a remarkably unchildish voice (her 1996 breakthrough single was a beautiful, Patsy Cline-ish song called "Blue"), she has spent much of this decade trying to figure out where she fits on the country-pop continuum.
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Singer LeAnn Rimes is a devotress of country music’s great ladies, like Patsy Cline and Tammy Wynette. On March 30, she’ll guest star on NBC’s American Dreams as another one of her childhood idols, Connie Francis. Natch, she’ll sing “Where the Boys Are.”
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Biography: In 1996, LeAnn Rimes burst out of nowhere with her debut single, "Blue," which immediately captured the attention of country fans across America. It wasn't just the fact that her rich, powerful vocals were remarkably similar to Patsy Cline -- it was the fact that Rimes was only 13 years old. Like Tanya ...Read full biography
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LeAnn Rimes came along in the spring of '96, at the very time that country music was simultaneously trying to rediscover some roots and was letting a youth movement get way out of hand. So when a 13-year-old came up with the best-ever Patsy Cline knock-off in the form of "Blue," the country audience went bananas for her.
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