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Laura Bell Bundy's Achin' and Shakin' Album Due April 13
Laura Bell Bundy will release a new album, Achin' and Shakin', on Mercury Nashville on April 13. Her first video, "Giddy On Up," has been streamed nearly a million times in one month and has sold more than 30,000 digital singles. A native of Lexington, Ky., Bundy is a Tony Award-nominated performer whose Broadway credits include Hairspray, Wicked and Legally Blonde: The Musical. She released an album, Longing for a Place Already Gone, on an independent label in 2007.
Laura Bell Bundy, a native of Lexington, Ky., studied at the Town and Village School of Dance in Paris, Ky., before beginning her professional career at age 9 when she starred in Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular in New York. She soon landed a film role in Ruthless, but she returned to Kentucky at age 14 to fulfill her desire to have a normal high school experience.
While in high school she began writing poetry and melodies. After graduating, she returned to New York to attend New York University and landed a recurring role on the daytime drama, The Guiding Light. Bundy then went on to star in Broadway hits, including Hairspray and Wicked, and appeared in several television shows and movies such as Dream Girls, Jumanji, Life With Mikey and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. She earned a Tony nomination for originating the role of Elle Woods in the Broadway musical, Legally Blonde.
In 2008, she decided to get back to pursuing her singing career and moved to Nashville. Signed to a recording contract with Mercury Nashville, her debut album, Achin' and Shakin', will be released in early 2010. It features the first single, "Giddy On Up."
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