Carrie Marie Underwood (Muskogee, 10 maart 1983) is een Amerikaans zangeres van countrymuziek en actrice. Ze was winnaar van American Idol in 2005.
Biografie Underwood is geboren in het Muskogee Regional Medical Center en groeide op op de boerderij van haar ouders in het landelijke Checotah. Ze is de jongste van drie dochters van vader Stephen en moeder Carole Underwood. Haar zussen zijn geboren in 1970 en 1973.
Underwood brak door toen ze in 2005 de vierde editie van American Idol won."Underwood the new 'American Idol'" – CNN, 27 mei 2005 Haar debuutalbum, Some Hearts, verkreeg in de Verenigde Staten zevenvoudig platina, en was het snelst verkopende country-album sinds de introductie van de Nielsen SoundScan in 1991. Underwood is de eerste American Idol-winnaar die prijzen heeft gewonnen bij de grote prijzenshows. Zo kreeg ze een American Music Award, een Billboard Music Award en een Grammy Award. In 2009 werd ze opgenomen in de Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame en in 2018 kreeg ze een ster op de Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Op 10 juli 2010 trouwde Underwood met ijshockeyspeler Mike Fisher. Begin maart 2015 kregen zij een zoon. Een tweede volgde in 2019.
Underwood zingt ook het liedje Ever Ever After dat terug te horen is in de film Enchanted (2007) waarin Patrick Dempsey, Amy Adams en James Marsden de hoofdrollen spelen. In december 2015 trad zij op tijdens "Sinatra 100 — An All-Star GRAMMY Concert" in Las Vegas met een lied van en voor Frank Sinatra, ter ere van diens 100e "verjaardag".
Discografie Albums
|align="left"|Some Hearts||2005||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Carnival Ride||2007||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Play On||2009||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Blown Away||2012||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Greatest Hits: Decade #1||2014||-||-||-||Verzamelalbum |- |align="left"|Storyteller||2015||31-10-2015||67||1|| |- |align="left"|Cry Pretty||2018||22-09-2018||46||1||
|align="left"|Storyteller||2015||31-10-2015||87||1|| |- |align="left"|Cry Pretty||2018||22-09-2018||56||1||
Singles
|align="left"|Inside Your Heaven||2005||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Jesus, Take The Wheel||2005||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Some Hearts||2005||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Don't Forget To Remember Me||2006||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Before He Cheats||2006||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Wasted||2007||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|So Small||2007||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|All-American Girl||2008||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Last Name||2008||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Just A Dream||2008||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|I Told You So (met Randy Travis)||2009||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Cowboy Casanova||2009||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Temporary Home||2009||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Undo It||2010||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Mama's Song||2010||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Good Girl||2012||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Blown Away||2012||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Two Black Cadillacs||2012||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|See You Again||2013||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Something In The Water||2014||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Little Toy Guns||2015||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Smoke Break||2015||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Heartbeat||2015||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Cry Pretty||2018||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|Love Wins||2018||-||-||-|| |- |align="left"|The Champion||2018||-||-||-||
|align="left"|What I never knew I always wanted||2015||12-12-2015||tip18||-|| |- |align="left"|The fighter||2017||03-06-2017||tip23||-|| met Keith Urban |- |align="left"|Cry pretty||2018||15-09-2018||tip||-||
Prijzen 2005 AwardCategoryTeen Choice AwardChoice Reality Star – femaleBillboard Music AwardTop-Selling Hot 100 Song of the Year: Inside your heavenTop-Selling Country Single: Inside your heavenCountry Single Sales Artist of the Year
2006 AwardCategoryGospel Music Association AwardCountry Recorded Song of the Year: Jesus, take the wheelCMT Music AwardFemale Video Of The Year: Jesus, take the wheelBreakthrough Video of the Year: Jesus, take the wheelAcademy of Country Music AwardTop New Female Vocalist of the YearSingle Record of the Year: Jesus, take the wheelNARP organization of record retail merchantsBreakthrough Country ArtistMusic RowCritics PickCountry Music Association AwardFemale Vocalist of the YearHorizon AwardAnnual Inspirational Country Music AwardMainstream Country Artist of the YearAmerican Music AwardsFavorite New Breakthrough ArtistBillboard Music AwardFemale Country Artist of the YearAlbum of the YearCountry Album of the YearCountry New Artist of the YearFemale Billboard 200 Album Artist of the YearCanadian Country Music AwardSOCAN Song of the Year: Jesus, take the wheel
2007 AwardCategoryPeople's Choice AwardFavorite Country Song: Before he cheatsFavorite Female SingerGrammy AwardBest New ArtistBest Female Country Vocal Performance: Jesus, take the wheelCMT Music AwardVideo of the Year: Before he cheatsFemale Video of the Year: Before he cheatsAcademy of Country Music AwardFemale Vocalist of the YearAlbum of the Year: Some HeartsVideo of the Year: Before he cheatsCountry Music Association AwardFemale Vocalist of the YearSingle Of The Year: Before he cheatsAmerican Music AwardsFavorite Country Female ArtistFavorite Country Album: Some HeartsArtist of the Year (T-Mobile Text-In Award)Billboard Music AwardFemale Country Artist of the YearCountry Album: Some HeartsCountry Artist of the YearFemale Billboard 200 Artist of the YearCountry Albums Artist of the Year
2008 Award CeremonyCategoryGrammy AwardBest Female Country Vocal Performance: Before he cheatsAcademy of Country Music AwardFemale Vocalist of the YearEuropean Country Music Association AwardFemale Vocalist of the YearTeen Choice AwardRed Carpet Fashion IconCountry Music Association AwardFemale Vocalist of the YearAmerican Music AwardsFavorite Country Album: Carnival RideBillboard Music AwardCountry Songs Artist of the YearCMT Online AwardMost Digitally Active Female ArtistMost Streamed Country Song of the Year: All-American girl
2009 AwardCategoryPeople's Choice AwardFavorite Country Song: Last nameFavorite Female ArtistFavorite Star 35 and UnderCountry Universe Reader’s Choice AwardArtist of the YearFemale Vocalist of the YearSingle of the Year: Just a dreamMusic Video of the Year: Just a dreamGrammy AwardBest Female Country Vocal Performance: Last nameAcademy of Country Music AwardEntertainer of the YearFemale Vocalist of the Year
2010 AwardCategoryPeople's Choice AwardFavorite Country ArtistGrammy AwardBest Country Collaboration with Vocals: I yold you so (met Randy Travis)
Nominaties 2006 AwardCategoryCMT Music AwardMost Inspiring Video of the Year: Jesus, take the wheelAcademy of Country Music AwardSong of the Year: Jesus, take the wheelTeen Choice AwardBest Female ArtistBreakout Female ArtistCountry Music Association AwardMusic Video of the Year: Jesus, take the wheelSingle of the Year: Jesus, take the wheelAnnual Inspirational Country Music AwardSong of the year: Jesus, take the wheelVideo of the year: Jesus, take the wheelAmerican Music AwardsFavorite Country Female ArtistBillboard Music AwardCountry Artist of the YearWorld Music AwardsWorld's Best-Selling New Artist
2007 AwardCategoryAcademy of Country Music AwardSong of The Year: Before he cheatsSingle Record of The Year: Before he cheatsMTV Video Music AwardsBest New ArtistTeen Choice AwardChoice Music – Female ArtistChoice Music – Payback Track: Before he cheatsCountry Music Association AwardSong of the Year: Before he cheatsVideo of the Year: Before he cheats
2008 AwardCategoryCMT Music AwardFemale Video of the Year: So smallAnnual Inspirational Country Music AwardMainstream Country Artist of the YearVideo of the Year: So smallCountry Music Association AwardAlbum of the Year: Carnival RideAmerican Music AwardsFavorite Country Female ArtistGrammy AwardBest Country Collaboration with Vocals: Oh Love (met Brad Paisley)
2009 AwardCategoryAcademy of Country Music AwardVideo of the Year: Just a dreamAlbum of the Year: Carnival RideAnnual GMA Dove AwardGenomineerd voor haar rol in het album How Great Thou ArtCMT Music AwardVideo of the Year: Just a dreamTeen Choice AwardChoice Female Album: Carnival RideCountry Music Association AwardMusical Event of the Year: I told you so (met Randy Travis)Female Vocalist of the YearAmerican Music AwardsFavorite Female Country Artist
2010 AwardCategoryPeople's Choice AwardFavorite Female ArtistGrammy AwardBest Female Country Vocal Performance: Just a dreamAcademy of Country Music AwardEntertainer of the YearFemale Vocalist of the YearSong of the Year: Cowboy Casanova – twee nominaties: schrijver & artiestAlbum of the Year: Play OnVocal Event of the Year: I told you so (met Randy Travis)
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