23. LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn’s talent was noticed early in life, singing in talent shows by the time she was 5 years old. She was an experienced singer by 9, her opportunities becoming larger by the day. But her biggest chance came when she connected up with disc jockey Bill Mack. He campaigned for her for over three years. In 1996, he helped her get a record contract with Curb records. Her debut single with Curb was Bill’s own composition, “Blue”, which became a top ten hit, showed off her vocal power and got both Bill and LeAnn their first Grammy awards. Over the next decade, LeAnn would continue to gather both country hits and pop hits. Her country hits would become more sporadic as time went along. But once the radio career dried up, she has continued to do different projects including acting, recording independent albums and winning season 4 of “The Masked Singer”. Although it seemed like the industry wanted to stay away from her for a while after her hits stopped, she has recently been coming back into the picture: CMT did a spotlight on her for her 25^th anniversary in the business, which included multiple modern female country singers that she helped inspire. Could this modern audience allow her votes to get into the Hall Of Fame?