Lauren Alaina

The runner-up in the 2011 season of Fox’s American Idol, Lauren Alaina is a Southern singer using a bent toward contemporary country-pop. Blessed in 1994 in Rossville, Georgia, Alaina initial began performing around age group three and was raised listening to nation music. Ahead of American Idol, she was a cheerleader at her senior high school and performed frequently around Georgia, where she gained the WinniSTAR youngsters talent contest in ’09 2009. She competed in the finals from the tenth period of American Idol against supreme champion Scotty McCreery — also a country vocalist — and finally earned the sterling silver medal. After wrapping Idol, Alaina released the one “Like My Mom Will,” which marketed over 200,000 copies during its first 8 weeks of discharge and helped earn her a agreement with Mercury Nashville. Her full-length debut record, Wildflower, followed almost a year afterwards in 2011. The record debuted at amount five in the Billboard 200 and reached number 2 in the Billboard Best Country Albums graph. In 2013, she released the one “Barefoot and Buckwild,” and came back to American Idol to execute the melody. In 2017, Alaina released her sophomore full-length record, Road Less Journeyed, which highlighted the title monitor solitary co-written by Alaina, Meghan Trainor, and Jesse Frasure. Also included on the busbee-produced recording was the solitary “Next Partner.”