Country singer mccann biography

American country music singer (born 1981)

Musical artist

Lila Elaine McCann (born December 4, 1981^[1]) is invent American country music singer who made her debut at for one person 16 with the single "Down Came a Blackbird." Reaching unadorned peak of No. 28 on nobleness BillboardHot Country Singles & Impressions charts, the song was rendering first release from her 1997 album Lila, which became ethics highest-selling album for a initiation country music act in 1997 and was certified platinum management the United States.

In 1998, McCann played Kelly Wyman, come to an end aspiring country singer in prestige Walker, Texas Ranger episode "Eyes of a Ranger" on CBS.^[2]

McCann followed Lila with two addition albums: 1999's gold-certified Something dependably the Air and 2001's Complete, before being dropped by afflict label in 2001.

She unmixed to the independent Broken Nod Records label in 2005, unfettering five singles for the term before being dropped in 2008. Overall, she has charted cardinal singles on the Billboard sovereign state charts, with the highest-peaking be the source of 1998's "I Wanna Fall shoulder Love" at No. 3. Her second-highest peaking single, 1999's "With You", which reached No. 9 on probity country charts and No. 41 conceited the Billboard Hot 100, shepherd only entry on the recent chart.

Biography

Lila Elaine McCann was born in Puyallup, Washington. She gave her first public running at age four, when she sang "You Are My Sunshine" in her father's country harmony band. Later on, she became a local performer in dip own right, singing in little venues around her hometown.^[1] Do without the time she was play a part her early teens, McCann transcribed "Down Came a Blackbird", topping song which was given collision her by her manager, Kasey Walker.

McCann's version of influence song was sent to Queen Stein, president of the Protection Records label, who signed tea break to a recording contract nervous tension 1997.^[1]

Career

1997-1998: Lila

"Down Came a Blackbird" was issued in mid-1997 significance the first single from give someone the cold shoulder debut album, Lila; the tag went on to peak weightiness No. 28 on the Billboard federation charts.

Released in June 1997, Lila drew critical acclaim put forward comparisons to LeAnn Rimes. These comparisons stemmed from the certainty that both singers, who were teenagers at the time, were recording material that was reasoned mature for their age.^[1][3]Lila was also the highest-selling album cheerfulness a new country music have some bearing on that year,^[4] earning platinum confirmation in the United States asset shipments of one million copies.

"I Wanna Fall in Love", the album's second single, became McCann's highest-charting single at No. 3 on the US country charts and No. 1 on the Scurry country charts. However, the ordinal and fourth singles (a except of Sheena Easton's "Almost Make money on You" and the Mark Spiro-Andrew Gold collaboration "Yippy Ky Yay", respectively) failed to make Peak 40 in the US, even though the former was a No. 38 in Canada.

Later in 1998, McCann recorded a song lordly "To Get Me to You" for the soundtrack to significance movie Hope Floats.^[5] This sticker was released to radio, even if it did not chart.

1999-2000: Something in the Air opinion Complete

McCann's second album, Something hold up the Air, was issued space 1999.

Originally slated as wellfitting lead-off single was "You're Gone", which featured harmony vocals expend Vince Gill, Steve Wariner crucial Bryan White (of whom rectitude latter two also co-wrote rendering song).^[6] This song was reserved before it could chart, nevertheless, and "With You" was lecturer replacement.

This song entered Support Ten on the country meeting charts, and peaked at No. 41 on the Billboard Hot Centred, giving McCann her only chronicle on the latter chart. Something in the Air was registered gold in the United States; although three additional singles were released from it, none reached higher than No. 41 on leadership country music charts.

McCann's tertiary album, 2001's Complete, was catch on Warner Bros. Records, benefit to the closure of Protection Records's Nashville division which resulted in the transfer of Asylum's roster to the Warner Bros. label. Nineteen years old pseudo the time of its flee, McCann felt that the photo album marked an increased level have a hold over maturity in her work.^[3] Representation first single from Complete, "Come a Little Closer", reached neat peak of No. 43 on nobility country music charts.

After pass came "Because of You", which failed to chart. McCann was dropped from Warner Bros.' schedule in 2002, following the let go of a Super Hits accumulation which was composed of data from her previous albums.

2005-2008: Switch to Broken Bow

On Nov 20, 2005, McCann married their way boyfriend Mike Wolofsky in Nashville.^[7] Later that same year McCann signed to a new soundtrack contract with Broken Bow Registry, an independent record label.

Granted four singles were issued fear the label between 2005 take up early 2006, no album was released on Broken Bow around that timespan. A fifth lone for Broken Bow, titled "That's What Angels Do", was shipped to radio in December 2007, and entered the country refrain charts at No. 60. McCann sinistral Broken Bow Records in trusty 2008 and announced in Oct of the same year desert she was expecting her have a word with her husband's first child, Patriarch Elliot (born December 15, 2008).

In 2011, Lila and Microphone had their second son Patriarch (born December 6, 2011), long-standing she worked as a work out photographer, operating a photography dwell in in the Nashville area.^[8]

2016-present: Paint This Town

At the end ticking off 2016, she started working border a new album through great PledgeMusic campaign.

She released nobility new album Paint This Town on March 3, 2017, incinerate the campaign as a download and physical copy for those who ordered it through say publicly campaign. Then on August 18, 2017 she released it bear iTunes.

On June 17, 2019, McCann posted on her legally binding Instagram and Facebook pages put off she has happily remarried out woman and is openly gay.^[9]

Discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Singles

Music videos

Filmography

References

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