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Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Frances Wilson is an American country music singer and guitarist. Her debut album topped the US country charts in 2004 and reached #2 on the Billboard 200 chart. Her two subsequent albums have also reached the top of the US country charts.

Biography
Early life
Wilson was born in Pocahontas, Illinois. Gretchen began singing for Kmart as a child. She dropped out of the 8th grade at the age of 15 to work as a cook and bartender in rural Illinois.After a failed marriage to Larry Rolens, she moved to Nashville and began dating Mike Penner. They have a daughter. Wilson sang in two bar bands by the age of 20. she moved to Nashville in 1996 to sing back-up and record sample songs. In 2000, she met John Rich who invited her to become his song-writing partner. Wilson signed with Epic Records in 2003 and recorded Here for the Party within the year.

Career
Her first single, "Redneck Woman", was released in early 2004 and reached the top of the Hot Country Songs charts and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Due to the success of "Redneck Woman", Here for the Party was released on May 11, 2004, earlier than planned, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard country chart. It also reached #2 on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Internet album sales charts. She performed as a support artist for Brooks & Dunn and Montgomery Gentry.

She released the title track Here For The Party as second single. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard country chart. Two other songs were released as singles, and both reached the top 10. Released in markets outside the US, the album hit #2 on the Australian country charts and the top 50 of the Australian charts. As of July 5, 2004, "Redneck Woman" was #1 on a world composite country chart. The album went on sell more than 4 million copies in the US and 5 million worldwide, and was certified four times platinum.

Gretchen released her second album All Jacked Up which in September, 2005, which peaked at #1 on both Top 200 and Country album charts, but, after initial decent sales the album fell off the charts, selling just 1 million copies and certified Platinum. The title track All Jacked Up peaked at a disappointing #8 on the Country singles chart and was the only song from the album to reach the top 10. The second single, I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today, peaked at #22. The third and the fourth singles were Politically Incorrect and California Girls which peaked respectively at #23 and #25 on the Country chart. Kid Rock was on the Target exclusive track for All Jacked Up called "The Other Side Of Me".

On February 28, 2006 she appeared on Kid Rock and The Twisted Brown Trucker Band's "Live" Trucker as she performed "Picture" recorded at Detroit's Cobo Hall. On November 2006, Gretchen Wilson released a new single called Come To Bed. The song's suggestive video received a TV-14 S rating when aired on CMT.

Gretchen's "I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today" is nominated for two Grammy Awards, Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song. In 2006, Wilson contributed a well-received cover of Kris Kristofferson's Sunday Mornin' Coming Down. Wilson displayed her rock and roll vocals on the cable TV special VH1 Rock Honors in 2007.

She released her third album, One of the Boys on May 15, 2007. The album debuted at #5 on the Top 200 and at #1 on the Country album chart. After 11 weeks, it exited the Billboard Top 200.
Awards
2005 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year
2004 CMA Horizon Award
2004 Grammy Award Best Female Country Vocal Performance