Julianne Hough (née le 20 juillet 1988) est une danseuse et chanteuse américaine de musique country. Elle est connue pour avoir remportée à deux reprise l'émission Dancing with the Stars. Hough grandit aux côtés de quatre frères et sœurs dans une famille de mormons à Sandy, Utah, non loin de Salt Lake City. Elle a trois sœurs (Sharee, Marabeth, et Katherine) et un frère (Derek Hough, également danseur professionnel. Tous bénéficient d'une influence artistique puisque les quatre grands-parents de la famille sont danseurs et que leur parents se sont rencontrés dans des équipes de danse au collège, dans l'Idaho.
Parallèlement à sa carrière de danseuse, Hough débute sa carrière de chanteuse en sortant son premier single "Will You Dance With Me" en mai 2007 dont l'argent fut reversé à la Croix-Rouge américaine. La chanson fut classé #100 au Billboard Pop 100.10 Elle signa ensuite chez Universal Music Group Nashville.
Son premier album homonyme fut enregistré à Nashville et fut produit par David Malloy, qui est connu pour avoir travaillé avec Reba McEntire, Eddie Rabbitt, parmi d'autres. L'album débuta à la première place du Top Country Albums le 31 mai 2007 et à la troisième place du Billboard 20011. Son second single et le premier à être diffusé en radio fut "That Song in My Head".
Hough rejoignit la tournée 2008 de Brad Paisley, avec Jewel et Chuck Wicks. Elle réalisa un EP spécial chant de Noël appelé Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection. Hough chanta son single "My Hallelujah Song" lors de l'émission Dancing With the Stars du 18 novembre 2008, avec son frère, Derek Hough, Mark Ballas et Lacey Schwimmer.
Le 5 avril 2009, Hough fut élue "Révélation féminine de l'année" au Academy of Country Music Awards alors qu'elle était nommée aux côtés de LeAnn Rimes, Jessica Simpson, et Kellie Pickler.
Elle joue également dans le remake de "Footlose" aux côtés de Kenny Wormald.
Julianne Hough (born July 20, 1988) is an American professional ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress. She is most widely known for being a two-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography. ABC's 20/20 called her one of the "very best dancers on the planet." Hough's brother, Derek, is also on Dancing with the Stars and is a three-time winner himself. Hough was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in December 2007. Her self-titled debut album was released May 20, 2008, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Country Album chart and #3 on the Billboard 200. It sold 67,000 copies its first week, and has sold over 320,000 total copies. On October 12, 2008, she released a holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection, which as of January 5, 2009, had sold 157,000 copies.
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Hough was born in Sandy, Utah. She grew up the last of five children in a Latter Day Saint (Mormon) family in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Her parents are Mari Anne (née Heaton) and Bruce Robert Hough, who was twice chairman of the Utah Republican Party. Her brother, Derek Hough, is also a professional dancer. She also has three older sisters, Sharee, Marabeth, and Katherine. All four of Hough's grandparents were dancers,[and her parents met while on a ballroom dancing team in college, in Idaho.
Her formal training began at the Center Stage Performing Arts Studio in Orem, Utah, where she danced with Josh Murillo, among others, in Latin Ballroom; she began dancing competitively at nine. Her parents sent her and brother Derek to London a year later to live and study with their coaches, Corky and Shirley Ballas, and to spare them the strife of divorce. The Ballases helped tutor the two Hough children alongside their own son, Mark, schooling them at the Italia Conti Academy. They received training in song, theatre, gymnastics and many forms of dance, including jazz, ballet, and tap. The three children formed their own pop music trio 2B1G ("2 Boys, 1 Girl") when Hough was twelve, performed at dance competitions in the UK and the U.S., and showcased in a UK television show. At fifteen, Julianne Hough became the youngest dancer, and only American, to win both Junior World Latin Champion and International Latin Youth Champion at the Blackpool Dance Festival. After five years in London, Hough returned to the U.S., first living with her mother for a year and attending Las Vegas Academy. She also spent a year at Park City High, in park city, Utah, then returned to Sandy, Utah to live with her father and graduate from Alta High. She then moved on her own to Los Angeles to begin her career.
Hough's first country music single "Will You Dance With Me" was released to iTunes and Wal-Mart in May 2007 to raise money for the American Red Cross. The song peaked at #100 on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. She later signed with Universal Music Group Nashville's Mercury Nashville division.
Her self-titled debut album was recorded in Nashville and produced by David Malloy, who has worked with Reba McEntire, Eddie Rabbitt, among others. Hough's album, which met with mixed reviews, debuted at #1 on the Top Country Albums chart on May 31, and also peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200. Hough's second single, and the first to be released to country radio, "That Song in My Head" debuted on the Country charts in March.
Hough joined Brad Paisley's 2008 Tour, along with Jewel and Chuck Wicks. Hough, Paisley and Willie Nelson appeared in the video for the Snoop Dogg song "My Medicine". Hough appeared in a Juicy Fruit commercial in the fall of 2008. and released an EP of Christmas music called Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection. Hough performed her second single "My Hallelujah Song" on Dancing With the Stars on November 18, 2008, with her brother, Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Lacey Schwimmer dancing.
Hough, LeAnn Rimes, Jessica Simpson, and Kellie Pickler announced the 2009 Academy of Country Music Award nominees in February 2009. Hough was nominated for the Top New Female Vocalist award, a fan voted award, which she subsequently won. Hough won the Top New Artist award at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 5, 2009.
During 2009, Hough headlines some of her own shows. Her first concert as the headlining act was in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the Meyer Theatre on January 15, 2009. She was the opening act for two shows on Toby Keith's Tour as well as the opening act for George Strait's Summer 2009 Tour.
Hough did not get the chance to write on her first record because the whole process was so quick. For her next record, she plans to write more.
Hough recently finished work on her second studio album for Mercury Nashville and the first single, "Is That So Wrong", was released to radio on June 21, 2010. The album is set for release in 2012
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