Lauren Alaina

A Southern singer with a bent toward contemporary country-pop, Lauren Alaina first came to the public's attention as the runner-up in the 2011 season of Fox's American Idol. She rode that momentum into the charts: her 2011 debut album, Wildflower, peaked at number five on the Billboard Top 200. With "Road Less Traveled," the title track to her 2017 sophomore LP, Alaina earned her first number one Billboard Country Airplay hit. Her knack for sunny anthems and slick ballads kept her in the Country Top 40, both on her own and as a duet partner -- her 2021 album Sitting Pretty on ...