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Rimes says her verses are honest

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Singer LeAnn Rimes’ latest album “Remnants” is all about love. “We take a look at (love) in so many different angles,” the 34-year-old Grammy-winning country pop singer said.


“From giving it, receiving it, making it, standing up for it. I think there’s a softness about it but there is also this balance of real power, inner power,” she added.


The album, out on Friday, features songs inspired by Rimes’ own marriage, to actor Eddie Cibrian, and her family. “Learning Your Language” is about her relationship with her husband while “Love Lines” is about her two step-sons, Cibrian’s children from his first marriage.


“That song is very honest in the verses about kind of the struggles of that — step-parenting,” Rimes said. “I just wanted them to know that’s how I felt. And I’m good at communicating that through music.”


Rimes released her first album when she was 13, and has found herself growing up in the spotlight, including her relationship with Cibrian, which began when they both were married to other people and became tabloid news.


“None of my life has ever been really private,” she said.


“I think I had to go through everything that I’ve gone through to make me understand and to have empathy and compassion and to be able to write a record like this,” she added.


Born August 28, 1982, Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian and known professionally as LeAnn Rimes, is an American singer, who is famous for her rich vocals.


Rimes rose to stardom at the age of 13 following the release of the Bill Mack song “Blue”, becoming the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972.


Rimes made her breakthrough into country music in 1996 with her debut album, Blue, which reached No 1 on the Top Country Albums chart and was certified multi-platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album’s eponymous leadoff single, “Blue”, became a Top 10 hit and Rimes gained national acclaim for her similarity to Patsy Cline’s vocal style. When she released her sophomore studio effort in 1997, You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs, she moved towards country pop material, which set the trend for a string of albums released into the next decade.


Rimes has won many awards, including two Grammys, three ACMs, a CMA, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and one American Music award. [4] She has released ten studio albums and three compilation albums and two greatest hits albums, one released in the US and the other released internationally, through her record label of 13 years, Curb Records, and placed over 40 singles on American and international charts since 1996.


She has sold over 37 million records worldwide, with 20.3 million album sales in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. Billboard ranked her 17th artist of the 1990–2000 decade.


Rimes has also written four books: Two novels and two children’s books.


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