The name of Carrie Underwood resonated strongly this past week after the artist, known as “one of the queens of country music,” agreed to perform at the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
Underwood will perform “America the Beautiful”, along with the Armed Forces Chorus, and the United States Naval Academy Chorus.
Although the artist triumphs within the country music genre, collecting a series of important recognitions and awards within the industry, Underwood's fame has not crossed the borders of the United States on a global scale.
Who is Carrie Underwood, the singer who agreed to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration?
Born in 1983, Carrie Marie Underwood grew up in the farming town of Checotah, Oklahoma, daughter of Stephen and Carole Underwood. She began singing at the age of three in a Free Baptist church and rose to fame after winning the singing competition American Idol in 2005.
It was then that he began to reap a path of successes, which have borne fruit such as nine studio albums, 85 million records sold, eight Grammy Awards, 16 Billboard Music Awards.
Over the years, the artistic career of the author of Some Hearts, her first album, has been growing slowly but steadily. Although none of her singles have entered the top ten most listened to in the country for the past ten years, within the genre, she leads the charts and is recognized as one of the most successful country artists. Among her songs are "Jesus", "Take the Wheel", and "Cowboy Casanova".
In 2020, the singer expanded her reach beyond music and showcased her entrepreneurial side in the fitness world. Amidst the pandemic, she launched an app called fit52 for workouts and promoting a healthy lifestyle, and at the same time, she debuted as an author with the release of her first book, Find Your Path.
The singer has always kept her personal life away from the spotlight, a stance she maintains to this day. Although she doesn't show much of her private life to her 13 million followers, the artist started a family in 2010 with former ice hockey player Mike Fisher and is the mother of two children aged five and eight.
In several interviews throughout her professional career, the artist had declared herself as “apolitical”: “I feel like more and more people are trying to pigeonhole me into political positions,” she said in an interview with The Guardian in 2019, and added: “I try to stay as far away as possible from politics, at least in public, because nobody wins. It’s crazy. Everyone tries to simplify everything and tie it up with a bow, as if it were black or white. And it’s not like that.”