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Deana Carter (born January 4, 1966) is an American
singer-songwriter who records country music. 

She is the daughter of Fred Carter Jr., a
guitarist who in the mid-'60s and '70s played on
close to 90 percent of all Nashville sessions with
artists such as Elvis Presley, Simon & Garfunkel 
and Roy Orbison. 

Her first big break came when one of her demo
tapes caught the attention of  Willie Nelson, who
invited her to take part in the 1994 Farm Aid VII
concert as the show's only female soloist. That
same tape led to a record deal with Capitol
Records that year. 

Capitol released Did I Shave My Legs for This? in
1996. Strawberry Wine, the first single, balanced
nostalgia with the loss of innocence. It shot to
No. 1 and won the CMA single of the year in 1997.
Two more singles from the album topped the charts,
and the album sold 5 million copies. 

She contributed to the commercially and critically
successful Hope Floats soundtrack and to the
animated film Anastasia, a project which yielded a
Grammy nomination and a Golden Globe nomination
for the song she performed, Once Upon a December. 

Caught in a shake-up at Capitol, her follow-up
album Everything's Gonna Be Alright underperformed
and she escaped the label a few years later. After
a Christmas album, a divorce and a move to Los
Angeles, Carter resurfaced with the album I'm Just
a Girl on Arista Nashville in 2003.

She is known for performing barefoot, saying that
it helps her relax enough to sing.


==Hits==

* Did I Shave My Legs For This?
* We Danced Anyway
* Strawberry Wine

==External links==

*http://www.deana.com/ Deana Carter Fan Club