Carrie Marie Underwood is a country singer from the United States. After winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005, she rocketed into popularity.
Her track “Inside Your Heaven” gave her the first and only country artist to debut at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as the only solo country artist to have a number one song on the Hot 100 in the 2000s.
With her fourth album, Blown Away, she became the second best-selling female artist in 2012 and earned a Grammy Award (2012).
The crossover single “Something in the Water” came from her compilation Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014).
Storyteller (2015), her fifth studio album, earned her the only country singer to have all of her studio albums debut at number one or two on the Billboard 200 chart.
Did Carrie Underwood Grow up Poor?
Underwood discussed how her parents made do with less in an interview with Marie Claire, despite the fact that they were not poor.
Her mother would sew the singer’s costumes out of Walmart fabric, and the family still resides in the same modest home where Underwood grew up.
Underwood used to steal hot dogs and lunch meat from her mother’s refrigerator and slip out to feed stray dogs while she was in high school.
How Much Does Carrie Underwood Make?
Carrie Underwood earns more than $20 million every year.
