Checotah country star
Carrie Underwood makes her United Kingdom concert debut June 21 at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Her new album, “
Blown Away,” drops tomorrow in the United States and June 18 overseas. You can stream it now in full on iTunes,
HERE.
“It’s been a long time coming to head over to London to perform for my U.K. fans,” she said on her official website.
“I’m so excited to play there in June. It’s the home of some of my musical influences. I’m a huge fan of George Michael, Annie Lennox, the Rolling Stones and, of course, Adele. I want to do that tradition proud. There are so many great British artists doing well in the US at the moment. I want to show the U.K. another side of America.”
Underwood also is the cover girl for the May 3 issue of
Entertainment Weekly magazine. In it, she talks about her new album ... and the first time she performed in public:
“The first one I remember singing on stage was ‘Somewhere Out There’ from ‘An American Tail.’ I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing. There’s videotape of it. I watched it recently, and I don’t know why on earth Mrs. Cooper would have asked me to sing. I don’t think I would have been like, ‘Yes! This child needs to have a solo!’”
In a similar vein, may have survived
“American Idol,” but she doesn’t think she could make the cut to judge “
X Factor,” she recently told
Digital Spy.
“Judging — that would be a really tough job to have because there would be instances where you would have to tell somebody that their dream shouldn’t be their dream and that would be really hard. I don’t think I could do that.”
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