WOMACK, LEE ANN
(*1966)
WOMACK, LEE ANN (b. Jacksonville, Tex., August 19, 1966) Womack is a new-traditionalist SINGER/SONGWRITER who broke through big time in the fall of 2000 with the song I Hope You Dance. Womack was exposed to country music at an early age thanks to her father, who was the local high school principal by day and a country deejay at night. She began singing as a teenager, and also wrote her own songs, drawing on country styles. When she was seventeen, she enrolled at South Plains College in…