Lee Ann Womack

Lee Ann Womack is an American country music singer and songwriter. Her 2000 single, I Hope You Dance was a major crossover music hit, reaching No.1601 on the Billboard Country Chart and the Topof the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her signature song.

Womack was born and raised in Jacksonville, Texas. At an early age, she was interested in country music. Her father, a disc jockey, often took his daughter to work with him to help choose records to play on the air. Womack was the second of two daughters. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father was also a high school principal. As a child, Womack studied the piano and later graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1984. After graduating, Womack attended South Plains Junior College in Levelland, Texas. The college was one of the first in the nation to offer country music degrees, and soon she became a member of the college band, Country Caravan. A year later, she left the college and after an agreement with her parents, Womack enrolled at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied the commercial ways of the music business. In Nashville, she interned at the AampR department of MCA Records. She studied at the college until 1990, leaving the school a year before

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