Carrie Underwood

Carrie Marie Underwood rose to fame after winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005. Her debut album, Some Hearts, became the best-selling debut album by a solo female country artist and earned her three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. Her subsequent albums, Carnival Ride, Play On, Blown Away, Storyteller, and Cry Pretty, all topped or nearly topped the Billboard 200, making her the only woman to reach number one with four country studio albums. She also released a Christmas album, My Gift, and a gospel album, My Savior, which won a Grammy. In total, she has sold over 42 million singles and 18 million albums worldwide, and Billboard has ranked her the top female country artist of both the 2000s and 2010s.

Underwood has received eight Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards, and five Guinness World Records. She has been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry. Alongside her music career, she launched a fitness clothing line called CALIA by Carrie in 2015 and wrote a New York Times best-selling fitness book, Find Your Path, in 2020. She has been married to retired hockey star Mike Fisher since 2010. As of January 2025, she has 13.1 million Instagram followers. In January 2025, she announced she would perform "America the Beautiful" at President Donald Trump's second inauguration.