Miranda was born in Longview, Texas but raised in Lindale, Texas. Her mother worked as a private investigator and her dad wrote songs and played the guitar. The first concert in which Miranda attended, Garth Brooks was the star. This brought her desire to become a singer to the surface. She then started to perform in talent contests. At the age of 16, she appeared on the Johnny High Country Music review in Arlington, Texas, which really helped her career. She went on to achieve a recording session in Nashville. She became frustrated with the songs sounding so ‘POP’ that she left and went back home where she worked on writing her own songs and taking guitar lessons from her dad.
She still had a strong desire to perform therefore; she continued singing and debuted with the house band, Reo Palm Isle Ballroom in Longview, Texas. She eventually went on to be on Nashville Star where she finished third.
She signed on with Sony and made her debut album, “Kerosene†which was released on March 5, 2005. She wrote or co-wrote 11 of the 12 tracks on this album. The album went platinum and made her widely known. After this, she opened for Keith Urban and George Strait. Her first single, “Me and Charlie Talking†was the creative genius of herself and her dad. This album hit the billboard charts.
Since performing “Kerosene†at the Country Music Association Awards in New York City her career took off. In the show many of the songs were slow ballad types so when she sang hers, she brought the crowd to their feet when columns of fire leapt from the stage at the end of the song. It went on to be her first top twenty hit.
Her second album, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend†she wrote eight of the eleven songs on the album. Carlene Carter, Patty Griffin and Emmylou Harris wrote the other three for her.
Since performing at the CMA’s, she has opened for Toby Keith and will reopen for Dierks Bentley as well as Eric Church and Jason Aldean.
Her first album went platinum and sold 53,000 it’s first week. She won the Cover Girl Fresh Face of Country Music Award and at the same time, USA Today did a feature article on her career. She has been nominated for Best Female Country Performance, Country Music Association Horizon Award and Best Video for “Kerosene’. She won the Best New Female in 2007 at the Academy of Country Music Awards.
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