Carrie Underwood is an American country music singer who defeated Bo Bice to win the fourth season of American Idol. She has the top-selling debut album of any Idol contestant. Her second album Carnival Ride was released on October 23, 2007.

On April 5, 2009, Underwood won the "Top Female Vocalist" and "Entertainer of the Year" awards on the Academy of Country Music Awards. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on September 17, 2009. The release date for her third album titled Play On was on November 3, 2009.http://blog.cmt.com/2009-08-31/carrie-underwood-continues-to-play-on/ She started a promotional tour for her new album on November 2, 2009 with an appearance on The Tonight Show With David Letterman.http://www.examiner.com/x-16552-Carrie-Underwood-Examiner~y2009m11d1-Carrie-Underwood-plays-on-in-New-York-City

Play On sold 318,000 copies during its premiere week, landing on the number one spot on the Billboard chart. Carnival Ride also peaked at number one on the charts.

Carrie Underwood made her television acting debut in March, 2010 on How I Met Your Mother. She will also play a church youth pastor in the new movie Soul Surfer.http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=456598>1=28101

Carrie Underwood has made a huge splash in country music. When the 2010 Academy of County Music Awards was announced, it was revealed that she has been nominated for entertainer of the year and top female vocalist. In addition, her album Play On is up for best album, Cowboy Casanova is up for song of the year, and she is up for an award for vocal event of the year with Randy Travis for I Told You So. http://www.acmcountry.com/awards/news.php

On April 6, 2010, Carrie Underwood was nominated for two CMT Awards, Video of the Year and CMT Performance of the Year for Temporary Home from Invitation Only. Her video, Cowboy Casanova is up against Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum and eight others. The final nominees will be announced on June 9 prior to the show.http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1635485/20100406/swift__taylor.jhtml

On June 9, 2010 Carrie Underwood was named as the winner of the 2010 CMT Music Awards Performance of the Year.

Underwood was nominated for the album of the year award in March of 2009 from the Academy of Country Music Awards for Carnival Ride. The awards ceremony took place on April 5th and was aired live on CBS.http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20263254,00.html

Underwood performed at the Academy Awards on February 22, 2009. Additionally, she won a Grammy Award for the "Best Female Country Vocal Performance." This was her fourth Grammy.http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=348399>1=28014 http://www.popcrunch.com/carrie-underwood-grammy-awards-2008-performance-carrie-underwood-to-perform-2008-grammy-awards/

Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley hosted the CMA Awards on November 11, 2009.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/08/cma-awards-carrie-underwood-brad-paisley-back-as-emcees.html On January 6, 2010 Carrie Underwood won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Country Artist.http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2010/01/underwood-idol-ellen-win-peoples-choice-awards/1 On January 31, 2010 Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis won a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals.http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1630870/20100131/lady_gaga.jhtml On April 18th, 2010 Carrie Won 'Entertainer of the Year' at the ACM awards. Carrie Underwood won three major awards at the 2010 CMT Awards, which included Video of the Year and CMT Performance of the Year for Temporary Home.http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/09/cmt-music-awards-2010-carrie-underwood-lady-antebellum-among-winners/

During American Idol, Underwood performed such songs as "Alone," "Piece of My Heart," "Independence Day," "Love is a Battlefield," "Bless the Broken Road," "If You Don't Know Me By Now," "Making Love Out of Nothing at All," "Man! I Feel Like a Woman," "Inside Your Heaven", "Sin Wagon" and "Angels Brought Me Here".

Since winning the show, Underwood has released three albums. Her debut album Some Hearts produced the hits "Jesus Take the Wheel," "Before He Cheats" and "Wasted." Her second album Carnival Ride, has produced the hits "So Small", "All-American Girl", "I Told You So", "Just A Dream" and "Last Name". "Cowboy Casanova" was the first single from Underwood's third album, Play On and was her fastest rising single thus far. "Temporary Home," the second single from Play On reached number one on the country chart on March 28, 2010 to become the 12th consecutive number one single for Carrie Underwood. "Some Hearts" has gone platinum seven times. "Carnival Ride" has sold over three million copies and "Play On" was number one in sales it's first week after release. As of November 25, 2009, Carrie Underwood has sold more albums in the United States than any other American Idol contestant, surpassing Kelly Clarkson.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol_alumni_album_sales_in_the_United_States On December 23, 2009, Billboard named Some Hearts as the best country album of the decade.http://www.examiner.com/x-28259-Bowling-Green-Country-Music-Examiner~y2009m12d23-Carrie-Underwood-has-country-album-of-the-decade She was ranked by Billboard as the 10th best country artist of the decade. Before He Cheats was ranked the 14th best song of the decade.http://www.examiner.com/x-32431-Houston-Music-Examiner~y2009m12d31-Carrie-Underwood-Among-Billboards-Decade-Chart-Toppers

• June 20 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Credit Union Centre
• September 25 Portland, Oregon Rose Garden
• September 27 San Jose, California HP Pavilion at San Jose
• September 28 Stockton, California Stockton Arena
• September 29 Bakersfield, California Rabobank Arena
• October 1 San Diego, California San Diego Sports Arena
• October 2 Los Angeles, California Hollywood Bowl
• October 3 Glendale, Arizona jobing.com Arena
• October 6 Houston, Texas Toyota Center
• October 7 San Antonio, Texas AT&T Center
• October 9 Dallas, Texas American Airlines Center
• October 10 Tulsa, Oklahoma BOK Center
• October 12 North Little Rock Arkansas Verizon Arena
• October 13 Nashville, Tennessee Bridgestone Arena
• October 15 Moline, Illinois Wireless Center
• October 16 Kansas City, Missouri Sprint Center
• October 17 Omaha, Nebraska Qwest Center
• October 19 Wichita, Kansas INTRUST Bank Arena
• October 20 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Ford Center
• October 22 Memphis, Tennessee FedExForum
• October 23 Mobile, Alabama Mobile Civic Center
• October 25 Tampa, Florida St. Pete Times Forum
• October 26 Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
• October 27 Duluth, Georgia Arena at Gwinnett Center
• October 29 Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro Coliseum
• October 30 Charlotte, North Carolina Time Warner Cable Arena
• November 1 Cleveland, Ohio Wolstein Center
• November 3 Toronto, Ontario Air Canada Centre
• November 5 Long Island, New York Nassau Coliseum
• November 6 Manchester, New Hampshire Verizon Wireless Arena
• November 12 Roanoke, Virginia Roanoke Civic Center
• November 13 University Park, Pennsylvania Bryce Jordan Center
• November 15 Newark, New Jersey Prudential Center
• November 16 Baltimore, Maryland 1st Mariner Arena
• November 29 Auburn Hills Michigan The Palace of Auburn Hills
• December 1 St. Louis, Missouri Chaifetz Arena
• December 2 Evansville, IN, Roberts Stadium
• December 4 Des Moines, Iowa Wells Fargo Arena
• December 5 Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sioux Falls Arena
• December 7 Rapid City, South Dakota Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Ice Arena
• December 8 Casper, Wyoming Casper Events Center
• December 10 Billings, Montana Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark
• December 12 Bozeman, Montana Brick Breedan Fieldhouse
• December 14 Yakima, WA Yakima Valley SunDome
• December 16 Vancouver, British Columbia General Motors Place
• December 18 Edmonton, Alberta Rexall Place

Blog sites reported in early January of 2009, that Underwood is romantically linked to hockey star Mike Fisher. The two were said to have spent New Years Eve together.http://perezhilton.com/2009-01-06-carrie-underwood-dating-hockey-senator Underwood made reference to Fisher on the insert of her Play On album, citing the importance of him in her life. In November of 2009, she denied rumors that her and Fisher planed on living together. She said the next man she moves in with will be her husband, whoever that ends up being.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34014530/ns/entertainment-celebrities/ Carrie Underwood's rep told People on December 21 that Underwood and Fisher are now engaged and no wedding date has been set.http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20332166,00.html

Carrie Underwood hosted her own holiday variety show on FOX on December 7, 2009. Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, seventh season American Idol winner David Cook, Christina Applegate, as well as Carrie's mother and sister appeared.http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20311867,00.html Underwood took part in comedy sketches, sang O Holy Night, previous hit singles and songs from her new album Play On.

"Whenever I was on 'Idol' I was just hoping to stay there for another week. That was as far as my calendar would go and I don't think anybody could have possibly predicted any of this." - Carrie Underwood in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine on April 30, 2010http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20100430/ENT/4300321/1005/ent

"I think you all know what Santa left under the tree for me this year ... a fiance! Woo hoo! Little Ace is finally going to have a dad! We all couldn't be happier!!!" - Carrie Underwoodhttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20333461,00.html

"Simon's obviously very smart. But he's not the smartest person I know." - Carrie Underwood on what she really thinks about Simon Cowellhttp://www.popeater.com/2009/12/09/carrie-underwood-esquire/

"No. I would never immortalize a guy that did me wrong. I would never give him that much credit."- Carrie Underwood on whether Cowboy Casanova is about her ex Tony Romohttp://www.popeater.com/2009/12/09/carrie-underwood-esquire/

"When people think of what it's like to be famous, they think of the Ritz. But I've been in hotels where I will not take my shoes off. I will wear flip-flops in the shower. I've seen more basements of venues than I've seen of the United States. People think, 'Oh, you travel around, you get to see the country.' I've seen basements, I've seen concrete, I've seen pillars." - Carrie Underwood on the reality of fame she's facedhttp://www.popeater.com/2009/12/09/carrie-underwood-esquire/

"After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, 'Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song.' And I was thinking, 'Really?' I grew up in Oklahoma, I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do." - Carrie Underwood on the controversy of her first singlehttp://www.popeater.com/2009/12/09/carrie-underwood-esquire/

"I give out my phone number to the contestants freely. I also like to send a present for making the top 10. I'll send a dog tag necklace from Tiffany and put 'Congrats on the top 10! Love, C' on it." - Carrie Underwoodhttp://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/01/american-idol-carrie-underwood-gives-out-phone-number-to-contestants.html

"I have officially decided that I'm giving up the music business. I'm going to become a professional sitcom actress." - Carrie Underwood, joking about her guest starring role on How I Met Your Mother.http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/carrie-underwood-i-had-a-baby-pig-poop-on-me-2010221

"It's important to me because down the road, I want someone who will help shape our kids into people who make the world a better place." - Carrie Underwood, on her fiance Mike Fisher improving her walk with God.http://blog.cmt.com/2010-03-04/carrie-underwoods-walk-with-god/

• 2005: 3 Billboard Awards, 1 Teen Choice Award
• 2006: 5 Billboard Awards, 2 CMT Music Awards, 2 Academy Of Country Music Awards, 2 Country Music Association Awards, 1 Gospel Music Association Award, 1 NARP organization of record retail merchants award, 1 Music Row Award, 1 Inspirational Country Music Award, 1 Canadian Country Music Award, 1 Dove Award
• 2007: 5 Billboard Awards, 3 American Music Awards, 3 Academy Of Country Music Awards, 2 People's Choice Awards, 2 Grammy Awards, 2 CMT Music Awards, 2 Country Music Association Awards
• 2008: 2 CMT Online Awards, 1 Grammy Award, 1 Academy Of Country Music Award, 1 Teen Choice Award, 1 Country Music Association Award, 1 American Music Award, 1 Billboard Award, 1 European Country Music Association Award
• 2009: 4 Country Universe Reader’s Choice Awards, 3 People's Choice Awards, 2 Academy Of Country Music Awards, 1 Grammy Award
• 2010: 1 People's Choice Award, 1 Grammy Award, ACM Entertainer of The Year, Triple Crown Award, 2 CMT Music Awardshttp://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/carrie_underwood/awards.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_received_by_Carrie_Underwood

• Inside Your Heaven
• Jesus Take The Wheel
• Wasted
• Before He Cheats
• Don't Forget To Remember Me
• So Small
• All American Girl
• Just A Dream
• Last Name
• I Told You So
• Cowboy Casanova
• Temporary Home