Latest Release
- 22 SEPT 2023
- 18 Songs
- Some Hearts · 2005
- Blown Away · 2012
- Blown Away · 2012
- The Champion (feat. Ludacris) - Single · 2018
- Out Of That Truck - Single · 2023
- Carnival Ride · 2007
- Blown Away · 2012
- Denim & Rhinestones (Deluxe Edition) · 2023
- Denim & Rhinestones (Deluxe Edition) · 2023
- Denim & Rhinestones (Deluxe Edition) · 2023
Essential Albums
- 2012
- 2005
Albums
- 2018
- 2015
- 2012
Artist Playlists
- The country storyteller can storm a song with vigor and subtlety.
- See her many personas crystallise before your eyes.
- The twang of Reba meets the attitude of arena rock.
- Carrie’s Las Vegas residency blends Nashville heart with Sin City glamour. Get the set list here.
- “I feel like I've been celebrating Christmas all year.”
Compilations
Appears On
- Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz, Amy Adams & Carrie Underwood
More To Hear
- Who among us hasn’t married a stranger in Vegas?
- The singer on "Out Of That Truck," driving, and creativity.
- “Before He Cheats” was a gut feeling and wound up a huge hit.
- Carrie Underwood joins for an in-depth chat about her album.
- Carrie Underwood on creating her album 'Denim & Rhinestones.'
- Carrie on "Ghost Story," an upcoming project, and more.
- More of Kelleigh's chat with Carrie about her christmas album.
About Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood took a bat to a scuzzball boyfriend’s prized ride more than a decade before Beyoncé did in Lemonade. And amazingly enough, when the country star vandalised a vehicle in the video for 2005’s quintuple-platinum “Before He Cheats”, it wasn’t righteous rage she projected—it was pure poise. Underwood was relatable yet unusually composed from the start, a middle-class woman singing about being romantically wronged or living hand-to-mouth who never comes undone, even with a Louisville Slugger in hand. Maybe that’s because she took her time stepping to the plate. Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1983, Underwood dreamt of becoming a singer but decided on a more practical path—a communications degree—before auditioning for American Idol as a last-ditch effort. With powerful pipes and farmgirl charm, she handily won the show’s 2005 season, while her Some Hearts debut that same year further defined her as a forceful performer with vocal range and athletic theatricality. On 2007’s follow-up, Carnival Ride, platinum tunes like “So Small”, “Last Name” and Randy Travis duet “I Told You So” exemplified her high-gloss approach: songs that emphasise self-confidence, hair-metal guitar sheen, dance-pop synths, and arena beats. Throughout her career, Underwood has celebrated women in country music—like favouring female opening acts—while upping her songwriting game, bringing unpretentious elegance to a Nashville industry overrun with male composers. By 2018’s Cry Pretty, her sixth album, she’d co-written nine of 13 songs, and co-produced the whole thing. She’s refined her singing too, moving from set-piece performances to R&B-influenced, loose and (seemingly) casual vocals. But even in slicker moments like Ludacris duet “The Champion”, when she wails, “I am invincible”, you know the bat-wielding dynamo of old is still getting in her licks.
- HOMETOWN
- Muskogee, OK, United States
- BORN
- 10 March 1983
- GENRE
- Country