Carrie Marie Fisher is an American singer and songwriter. Known for her vocal range and dynamic stage presence, Underwood is regarded as a pivotal figure in 21st century country music.
She has revitalized and sustained the presence of female country artists in popular culture since winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005.
real name: Carrie Marie Underwood
labels: 19 Recordings, Arista Nashville, Arista Records, Capitol Records Nashville
genres: pop music, country music, country pop, country rock
awards: Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, American Music Award for Favorite Country Female Artist, American Music Award for Artist of the Year, American Music Award for New Artist of the Year, Country Music Association Award for International Achievement, Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year
plays: guitar, piano, voice, harmonica
member of: Artists Stand Up to Cancer
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Carrie Marie Underwood was born on March 10, 1983, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Barbara Carole Underwood (née Shatswell) and Stephen Bryan Underwood. She has two older sisters, Shanna and Stephanie, and was raised on her parents' farm in the nearby rural town of Checotah. Her father worked in a paper mill while her mother taught elementary school. During her childhood, Underwood performed at Robbins Memorial Talent Show, and sang at her local church, First Free Will Baptist Church. She later sang for local events in Checotah, including Old Settler's Day and the Lions Club.
Underwood has credited "music as a whole" as her major influence, since she "grew up listening to music" and "there were songs, different kind of songs coming at me from everywhere". She has mentioned pop and rock acts like Queen, Guns N' Roses, George Michael, the Rolling Stones, My Chemical Romance and Papa Roach as influences. In a 2014 interview Underwood spoke on the late Queen frontman, "I've always been a huge fan and lover of Freddie Mercury. I would listen to him when I was a kid. He could do so many amazing things with his voice. People like that — who had incredible voices — I was always drawn to." In July 2022 she joined Guns N' Roses on stage during their concert at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London where she performed with...
Since her debut in 2005, Underwood has been praised by both veteran artists and music critics. In 2014, Rolling Stone described Underwood as "the female vocalist of her generation of any genre", while a 2012 issue of Billboard magazine referred to her as Country Music's reigning Queen.
"Jesus, Take the Wheel" is a song recorded by American country music artist Carrie Underwood. It was released on October 18, 2005, as the first single from Underwood's debut album Some Hearts (2005).
The ballad tells of a woman seeking help from Jesus in an emergency and surrendering her control to a higher power. The song was written by Brett James, Hillary Lindsey, and Gordie Sampson.
"Jesus, Take the Wheel" is a Christian country song that lasts for three minutes and forty-six seconds. The song is composed in the key of A major and is set in the time signature of 4/4 common time with a moderately slow tempo of 76 beats per minute. Underwood's vocal range spans over two octaves from F♯3 to E5.
In a review of Some Hearts, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised Underwood's delivery of the song, writing that she "sounds equally convincing on such sentimental fare as 'Jesus, Take the Wheel' as on the soaring pop 'Some Hearts'". In 2013, Matt Bjorke of RoughStock ranked "Jesus, Take the Wheel" as the tenth-best song of Underwood's career at that point, writing that that song "show[ed] the strength of her voice through complex vocal runs and tender verse readings." On a similar ranking in 2017, Chuck Dauphin of Billboard placed the song as Underwood's fourth-best song to date. Rolling Stone ranked the song as Underwood's eighth-best, based on a reader-voted poll, in 2015 and wrote that "as Underwood's vocals soared into the...
The music video was Underwood's first and was directed by Roman White. It features her singing in various backgrounds such as a living room, through shelves, standing by a wall, and sitting in a chair. A woman, a young couple, and an older couple are all shown through the video trying to ease a baby, fighting over bills and making up, and trying to feed his wife respectively. It premiered on CMT on November 24, 2005.