LeAnn Rimes Biography

- Height: 5’ 5” (1.65m)

- Shares a birthday with Canadian singer and songwriter, Shania Twain.

- Holds the record for the longest charted song with her hit ‘How Do I Live’ (1997) – which spent 69 weeks on the US Hot 100 charts – the single sold more than 3 million copies – making her the first country artist to achieve this feat.

- Named as one of the ‘21 Hottest Stars Under 21’ in Teen People Magazine’s 1999 list.

- Selected to sing the theme song ‘Light the Fire Within’ for the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

- Was mentioned in the Barenaked Ladies 1998 hit ‘One Week’ from their album ‘Stunt’: “…hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes, big like LeAnn Rimes, because I’m all about value…”.

- Was selected to sing the Disney 50th Anniversary song ‘Remember When’.

- Involved in a series of promotional spots for the Food Network, an American international cable network.

- Ranked number 50 in FHM’s ‘100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005’.

- On 3rd September 2005, she performed a benefit concert for those affected by Hurricane Katrina, saying that as a Mississippian, it had “hit close to home”.