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Miranda Lambert

Published August 21, 2008

Two-time CMA Horizon Award nominee Miranda Lambert got her start on the television reality show, Nashville Star. She didn't win the competition which was a blessing for her. "I was hoping not to win," she says, "The winner had to go in right after the contest and make a record in a couple of weeks, and I wasn't ready."

Miranda Lambert.

But when she did record her phenomenal debut album Kerosene, it came in at number one on the country charts, only the sixth time a new country artist started out their career with a record at the top. The album garnered her the first Horizon Award nomination, an ACM Top New Female Vocalist nomination, and a Grammy nomination as well. She wrote or co-wrote eleven of the twelve songs on the album. "In order for me to cut any song I didn't write, I want to feel it more than I feel my own words," she notes. "It has to feel like it's something I could have written."

Lambert's latest album is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Lambert has continued her songwriting, penning eight out of the eleven tracks on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. "We really didn't want to change anything because Kerosene worked, and, you know if it aint broke …" She continues, "You can take each song on this album and compare it to the first record, and you can see that it's an upgrade. It shows two years of growth. I also let people in a lot more than I did on the last record, so I'm a little scared, but I'm proud."

She has reason to be with the critical acclaim accorded her sophomore effort. Look for Miranda Lambert videos on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace, and look out for that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend!