Unlike other "American Idol" winners who kinda forgot what tossed them into the limelight, Carrie Underwood is all praises for the reality talent show as she received her first Grammies this year saying if it weren't for the show, she wouldn't be where she is right now.

Winning a Grammy as a country star has further cemented Carrie Underwood to the country genre saying it is in country music that she definitely wants to stay despite having conquered other music genres during the fourth season of "American Idol."

Underwood's debut album Some Hearts is already a certified 5x platinum, and working on her follow-up album, the blonde country singer hopes her follow-up material will be as successful as the first one.

One of Carrie's successful tracks to date is Carrie Underwood new song before he cheats. Carrie Underwood before he cheats stayed for 20 weeks in the US Country chart and peaked at number 1 on the same chart in November, 2006 as downloads for the lyrics to before he cheats by Carrie Underwood also heated up.

The same team behind Carrie's famous tracks "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and Carrie Underwood cheats is working on Carrie's new tracks.

Carrie says she's confident working with the same team but then sooner or later she's gonna be working with other people she doesn't know and just see where her career ends up, there are just two directions anyway, if not up then down.

Carrie Underwood is the first country singer to win the Best New Artist since 2001, which was won by Shelby Lynne.

The young talented singer couldn't help but be all grateful in getting the award considering that it was an all-genre category, and usually country singers are the least likely to be recognized, so for this to happen, Carrie Underwood can't seem to contain the overwhelming blessings coming her way.

Born in March 10, 1983, Carrie Underwood belonged to a family of non-singers from Checotah, Oklahoma.

The youngest in a brood of three daughters of elementary school teacher Carole and paper mill worker Stephen, Carrie was the only one inclined to have a career in music starting off in a church choir at the age of three.

Carrie was pretty active in school singing solo roles in school plays and was greatly involved in the academe's music program telling people she will be a famous singer one day.

However, such career choice seemed to fade away while she was in college taking up broadcast journalism. Nevertheless, her love for music did not totally disappear as she joined a country music show in school.

Her classmates' prodding for her to audition in "American Idol" re-ignited Carrie's dream of becoming a famous singer one day and after a night's ride to St. Louis, Carrie waited hours for the audition where she sang before "American Idol" supervising producer James Breen, "Phones Are Ringing All Over Town" originally by Martina Mcbride.

After two more audition rounds, Carrie Underwood found herself on her first flight to Hollywood and on May 25, 2005, she was an inch closer to achieving her dream when she was declared the newest American idol.

What followed after was Carrie's fulfillment of her dream, however, as wholesome as she is, detractors abound trying to destroy her in so many ways such as spreading Carrie Underwood naked pictures of Carrie Underwood, Carrie Underwood legs Carrie Underwood pics over the Internet and the like.

Although dubbed as the sexiest vegetarian, Carrie Underwood and fashion and Carrie Underwood and dresses have always been maintained at a wholesome level.

Also, Carrie's winning the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year award somehow created a faith hill Carrie Underwood drift and other country singers who rallied behind Faith after Faith's reaction to losing to Underwood was taken as disrespectful by entertainment journalists.

LeAnn Rimes, a close friend of Faith Hill and a multi-awarded singer herself, defended faith hill and Carrie Underwood criticized as well as the Country Music Association for being so political evident by awarding Underwood both the Horizon Award and Female Vocalist of the Year despite her being a newbie in the industry.