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“You can change your hair and you can change your clothes. You can change your mind, that’s just the way it goes. You can say goodbye and you can say hello, but you’ll always find your way back home,” - Miley Cyrus. Life takes everyone far away, but home will always be where the heart is. Award-winning country singer Carrie Underwood was born on March 10, 1983 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. As soon as Underwood began singing for audiences, her career took of. Her songs “Jesus, Take The Wheel” and “Before He Cheats” won Grammys, and is renowned throughout the world as the most successful winner of American Idol. Carrie Underwood created an incredible charity and business line, strove for accuracy to innovate modern country music in a way never seen …show more content…
But the moment she hit the stage on American Idol in 2004 and 2005, the world was in awe. Her audition in the fall of 2004 earned her a spot in the show in 2005, and her first performance of “Alone” by the 1987 rock band Heart took place on March 22, 2005. "Not only will you win this show, you will sell more records than any other previous Idol winner" (Simon Cowell, 2005). After winning the show, Underwood released her first hit single, “Inside Your Heaven” in June of that year, and included with her debut album just after, “Some Hearts”. “But it was "Before He Cheats" that proved Simon Cowell correct--Underwood's lament about an unfaithful lover sold more than two million copies after its release in August of 2006, and remained at the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Country chart for five weeks”(“Carrie Underwood,” 2008). Carrie Underwood changed music forever, and continues to enlighten the hearts of those around the …show more content…
Her concerts change the lives of those who go, and her music triggers the emotions of those around her. To one Kentucky boy, she changed his life with something he would remember forever; his first kiss. Chase Kurnick, 14, went to her concert on September 26, 2012, with a sign that read “Carrie Be My 1st Kiss”. Carrie saw the sign and brought Kurnick onto the stage. She kissed him in front of the millions of individuals watching, and the smile on his face was unforgettable. Underwood knew that little Chase Kurnick would grow up knowing he took that once in a lifetime chance, and his changed his life forever (“Boy Gets First Kiss From Carrie Underwood”,

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