Her third album, Play On was released in late 2009 and included the hit “Cowboy Casanova.” A fourth album, Blown Away, came out in 2012, and Underwood released a greatest hits album in 2014.
It included the hits “Jesus Take the Wheel,” “Inside Your Heaven” and “Before He Cheats.” Her 2007 album Carnival Ride debuted at the top of the country and Billboard charts and included the hits “So Small.” Carrie Underwood was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2008. Her debut album, Some Hearts, was released in November of 2005 and became a country-pop hit that won two Grammys. In the final show of the season, on May 25, 2005, Underwood narrowly beat out Bice to become the new “American Idol,” guaranteeing her a recording contract. Underwood performed mostly country songs, a departure from previous winners Kelly Clarkson (2002) and Ruben Studdard (2003) and Fantasia Barrino (2004). She was one of 100,000 potential contestants for American Idol when the 2005 season began Underwood was a senior in college when she entered the contest, and she ended up in a tight race against Bo Bice, a southern rocker from Alabama.
Singer Carrie Underwood won the TV talent show American Idol in 2005, and parlayed that success into country music stardom.Ĭarrie Underwood grew up singing at church and at events in and around her hometown of Checotah, Oklahoma.