{"id":15096,"date":"2025-04-14T23:07:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=15096"},"modified":"2025-04-14T23:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:07:31","slug":"leann-rimes-made-her-tv-debut-on-star-search-at-just-8-years-old-already-a-seasoned-performer-with-four-years-of-experience-she-won-her-first-round-but-didnt-take-the-overall-title-six-yea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=15096","title":{"rendered":"LeAnn Rimes made her TV debut on Star Search at just 8 years old, already a seasoned performer with four years of experience. She won her first round but didn\u2019t take the overall title. Six years later, she made history as the youngest Grammy winner ever, earning Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her hit Blue. The 1996 debut album sold over six million copies, launching her to superstardom. 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The Ed McMahon-hosted competition show spawned more stars than any other talent show in history.<\/p>\n<p>Pop stars\u00a0Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and the Backstreet Boys are among the stars who got their start on\u00a0<em>Star Search<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Justin Timberlake full STAR SEARCH performance\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T98JbbpINm4\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"350\" data-origheight=\"235\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A number of comedians including Ray Romano and\u00a0Bill Engvall can also credit the show for their early success. But, it\u2019s the number of country stars who got their feet wet on the\u00a0<em>Star Search<\/em>\u00a0stage that surprised us.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Dean, Ty Herndon, Phil Vassar, Sawyer Brown, and\u00a0LeAnn Rimes\u00a0are just a few of the country singers who once performed on\u00a0<em>Star Search<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rimes was only 8 at the time of her\u00a0<em>Star Search<\/em>\u00a0appearance, but was already a well-rehearsed performer with four years of experience under her belt. The \u201cBlue\u201d singer\u00a0won her first\u00a0<em>Star Search<\/em> round against fellow junior vocalist Levi Garrett. She didn\u2019t go on to win the overall title, but she did become the youngest Grammy Award winner of all time just 6 years later.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-in-1996-at-the-age-of-13-leann-rimes-released-her-debut-album-blue-and-its-title-track-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">In 1996, at the age of 13, LeAnn Rimes released her debut album,\u00a0<em>Blue<\/em>, and its title track.<\/h2>\n<p><em>Blue<\/em>\u00a0sold more than six million copies, setting Rimes on a path to superstardom. Three subsequent albums were also certified platinum, with Rimes selling more than 37 million records over the course of her career to date.<\/p>\n<p>LeAnn Rimes cemented herself as one of the greatest talents of her generation. In addition to shattering records as a vocalist, Rimes has made appearances as an actress in made for television movies (<em>Holiday In Your Heart, Northern Lights,<\/em>\u00a0and more). Most recently, she was featured on the Australian and UK versions of<em>\u00a0The Voice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, LeAnn returned to her singing competition roots when she appeared on Season 4 of\u00a0<em>The Masked Singer<\/em>. Rimes, who was disguised as The Sun, won the season and became the first and only country singer to do so.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LeAnn Rimes (Sun) - Piece of My Heart - The Masked Singer - The Group A Play Offs - Nov 11, 2020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1urjWaIJRHc\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"350\" data-origheight=\"235\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/SPOywnU9zAndTTfGPZSmLmkXTas=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2)\/sun-leann-rimes-5416fcea1f4a47fc9120b0a2e071769b.jpg\" alt=\"LeAnn Rimes Talks Masked Singer Win, Starting Young as a Singer\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LeAnn Rimes competed as The Sun on Season 4 of \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (Photo credit: The Masked Singer\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Watch a young LeAnn Rimes perform Marty Robbins\u2019 \u201cDon\u2019t Worry\u201d in her\u00a0<em>Star Search<\/em>\u00a0debut in 1991 below.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Levi Garrett vs Leann Rimes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LvLQEsIIg-I\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"350\" data-origheight=\"235\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeAnn Rimes was only 8 years old when she made her television debut on\u00a0Star Search. 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