Arts & Entertainment

Grammy Award Winner LeeAnn Rimes To Play On Long Island

The artist best-known for "Blue," "How Do I Live," and "Can't Fight The Moonlight" will play songs from "the story ... so far tour."

Songstress LeeAnn Rimes will play the Staller Center for the Arts in Stony Brook in November.
Songstress LeeAnn Rimes will play the Staller Center for the Arts in Stony Brook in November. (Staller Center for the Arts)

STONY BROOK, NY — Grammy Award winner Leeann Rimes will perform at the Staller Center for the Arts as part of her “the story … so far” tour this November, theater officials said in a news release.

Rimes broke out into the music scene at 14 with "Blue," winning Best New Artist, making her the youngest solo artist to take home a Grammy Award, and a year later at 15, she became the first country artist to win Artist of the Year at the Billboard Music Awards.

Rimes has sold over 48 million units globally, winning two Grammys, 12 Billboard Music Awards, two World Music Awards, three Academy of Country Music Awards, two Country Music Association Awards, and one Dove Award.

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In 2022, she was awarded the prestigious ASCAP Golden Note, which is given to genre-spanning songwriters, composers, and artists who have achieved extraordinary career milestones.

Out of the 63 singles she has released, her ballad,"How Do I Live," holds the record as Billboard's Hot 100 all-time #1 hit by a female artist and currently ranks #6 on Billboard's "Greatest of All Time: Hot 100 Songs" list.

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Fifteen of her singles became Top-10 hits, including, "Can't Fight the Moonlight," which went #1 in 11 countries.

Rimes was honored with the Ally of Equality Award by the Human Rights Campaign for over 20 years of support of equal rights, the 2019 HOPE Award for Depression Advocacy, and the 2009 ACM Humanitarian Award, among other recognitions.

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