Karen Fairchild is an American country music singer married to her colleague Jimi Westbrook. The two ‘Little Big Town’ lovers have a son and live happily together as man and woman without any controversy around them. Learn more here about Karen, her biography, family, career, marriage net worth and body stats.
Karen Fairchild’s Bio
Karen Fairchild was born on September 28, 1969, in Gary, Indiana in the United States of America to parents of white American descent. She spent much of her childhood and spent her childhood days in Marietta and Georgia, USA.
A gap exists on a formation of Karen Fairchild. It is not known for sure which high school she attended or how big or small her family was. However, it is known that for her college education, she graduated from Samford University in Birmingham Alabama. It was here that she met her husband during their time at university. We will write about him later in this article.
Career
In the mid-90s, Karen was a member of a Christian vocal group called ‘Truth’ as a performer and was featured as the lead vocalist in a few of their songs. Later, she left this group and formed a musical duo called KarenLeigh (a coinage of her name and musical partner) with Leigh Cappillino as her half.
In 1997, while studying at Samford University, Karen Fairchild met Kimberly Schlapman Roads before moving to Nashville, Tennessee before Jim Westbrook and Philip Sweet joined their band in 1998. metamorphosed into a musical group called ‘Little Big Town’ in 2002 with all four of the former band members making up the new band members.
The group’s formation was met with great success as they were met with wide acceptance and admiration by the public after their self-titled album debuted in 2002 at the CMA Awards upon signing with Equity music. Their debut album ‘The Reason Why’ rose to No. 1 on the US country charts that year. They had some of the biggest hit songs of that era on their debut album like “Don’t Waste My Time” and “Everything Changes”. In 2006 you’ll probably remember the likes of “Good as Gone” and go dancing to the tunes of “A Little More You” which were hit songs from their second album The Road To Here
“Pontoon” contained in their fifth studio album won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 55th Grammy Awards. Karen Fairchild has won numerous awards during her career with her band, including Best Country Duo/Group and Digital Song of the Year for Girls Crush. They also won the Vocal Group of the Year award in addition to the New Vocal Duo/Group award.
Family – Married, Husband
Karen tied the knot with her college boyfriend and musical partner Jimi Westbrook on May 31, 2006. The two lovers have been married ever since. They have a son together named Elijah Dylan Westbrook, who was born in 2010.
There are no rumors of turbulence in their marriage, whether of major or minor proportions, which unfortunately is becoming more and more common in celebrity marriages. We can safely assume that Jimi Westbrook and Karen Fairchild’s union is rosy and entwined with a soft, firm love handle on the inside, just as it seems on the outside, and we sincerely hope that it will always be so.
Net value
Having had a successful music career, it won’t be out of place to assume that she is also wealthy from her singing career. Although her exact net worth is not known, Karen Fairchild has an estimated net worth of over $3 million.
Body stats – height, measurements
Karen is known for her long, lean legs which seem to be a role model for women who want to look sexy in a bikini. The singer is naturally gifted with one of the sexiest legs the music industry has ever seen and she does well to take good care of it. Probably a well-planned exercise and massage routine keeps them going.
The celebrity musician, mother of one and wife of another famous musician is a decent height for a woman at 5ft 6in. This height carries a body weight of 54 kg or 119 pounds. She wears a dress size 4 US and shoe size 9 US. Although the exact measurements of her female body limbs are unknown, one can usually see and be certain that she has a slim figure.