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Wynonna Ellen Judd (born May 30, 1964) is an American country music singer. Born Christina Claire Ciminella, she often goes by the single name Wynonna (IPA pronunciation: /wa?.'no.n?/). She is the daughter of singer Naomi Judd and the half-sister of actress Ashley Judd.

Biography

Judd was born in Ashland, Kentucky as Christina Claire Ciminella. She was given the last name of Michael Ciminella, her sister Ashley's biological father. Her own biological father was Charles Jordan, who died in 2000, and who was never married to Naomi Judd.

Her immediate family consists of her mother Naomi, half sister Ashley, son Elijah Judd (born December 23, 1994), daughter Grace Pauline (born June 21, 1996), and her second husband and former bodyguard, D. R. Roach (married November 22, 2003). According to her official website, Wynonna filed for divorce from Roach on March 27, 2007 after his arrest for sexual assault on a child under the age of 13.

Before launching her solo career, Wynonna sang as part of one of the most successful and celebrated country music duos with her mother. Together, they were known as The Judds. Wynonna is an active and vocal member of the Recording Artists' Coalition, an American music industry organization that represents recording artists, and attempts to defend their rights and interests. Since her career began some of her achievements include 20 #1 singles, multiple gold, platinum, and multi-platinum albums, multiple Grammy awards and a performance at Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994. In 2000, she shared the stage with rock band Phish.

In November 2003, Wynonna appeared on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show discussing what she described as a "severe" dependency to food. She has been working with the show to lose a significant amount of weight and get to the root of her dependency. In September 2005 Wynonna made a second appearance on the show, discussing how she has lost some weight (but not yet at her goal weight) and has patched up broken relationships with her mother, and with the man she considers "her dad", Michael Ciminella, from whom she had also been estranged for almost a decade. Both Naomi and Michael visited Wynonna at the Shades of Hope rehab center in Buffalo Gap, Texas, recently, during a family visit, where Wynonna, 42, was being treated for food addiction. In September 2005, in an interview for The Insider, Wynonna also talked about being sexually assaulted by an acquaintance when she was younger.

Wynonna published her memoir, Coming Home to Myself, in September 2005, which became a New York Times Bestseller.

She co-hosted the fourth season of the USA Network series Nashville Star with Cowboy Troy.

On October 10, 2006 Wynonna released her first Christmas Album, A Classic Christmas, as a solo artist. The single that was released, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town( Which her two kids joined her in singing), peaked at #3 on the AC charts.

April, 2007 finds Wynonna back in the studio with longtime producers Brent Maher and Don Potter to record a follow up to 2003's, "What The World Needs Now Is Love"

Other accomplishments

Although she is associated with the country genre, she has also ventured into other music genres by allowing her cover version of "I Want To Know What Love Is" to be released as a dance track, where it peaked at number 12 on Billboard Radio Monitor's Hot Dance Airplay chart in 2005.

In 2001 Judd joined Huey Lewis on a duet on the album Plan B for the song "I'm Not in Love Yet".

Music career

Discography

1992 - Wynonna - #4 (US), #1 (Country) 5x PLATINUM
1993 - Tell Me Why - #5 (US), #1 (Country) PLATINUM
1996 - Revelations - #9 (US), #2 (Country) PLATINUM
1997 - Collection
1997 - The Other Side - #38 (US), #5 (Country) GOLD
2000 - New Day Dawning - #40 (US), #5 (Country)
2003 - What the World Needs Now Is Love - #8 (US), #1 (Country)
2005 - Her Story: Scenes From A Lifetime - #25 (US), #2 (Country)
2006 - A Classic Christmas - #53 (US), #10 (Country)
2007 - TBA

Singles

(Source)

Year	Title	Chart Positions			Album
Year	Title	US Hot 100	US Country	US AC	Album
1992	"She Is His Only Need"		1	25	Wynonna
1992	"I Saw The Light"		1		Wynonna
1992	"No One Else on Earth"	83	1	35	Wynonna
1992	"My Strongest Weakness"		4		Wynonna
1993	"Tell Me Why"	77	3	24	Tell Me Why
1993	"A Bad Goodbye" (duet with Clint Black)	43	2		No Time To Kill (Clint Black album)
1993	"Only Love"		3		Tell Me Why
1993	"Is It Over Yet"		6		Tell Me Why
1993	"Let's Make a Baby King"		61		Tell Me Why
1994	"Rock Bottom"		2		Tell Me Why
1994	"Girls With Guitars" (w/ Naomi Judd and Lyle Lovett)		10		Tell Me Why
1994	"Healing" (w/ Michael English)	120^A
1996	"To Be Loved By You"		1	25	Revelations
1996	"Heaven Help My Heart'"		14		Revelations
1996	"My Angel Is Here"		44		Revelations
1996	"Somebody To Love You"		55		Revelations
1997	"Mary, Did You Know?" (Kenny Rogers w/ Wynonna)		55		The Gift (Kenny Rogers album)
1997	"When Love Starts Talkin'"	98	13		The Other Side
1998	"Come Some Rainy Day"		14		The Other Side
1998	"Always Will"		45		The Other Side
1998	"Woman To Woman"		62
1998	"Freedom"		68
2000	"Can't Nobody Love You (Like I Do)"		31		New Day Dawning
2000	"Going Nowhere"		43		New Day Dawning
2003	"What The World Needs Now"	70	14		What The World Needs Now Is Love
2003	"Heaven Help Me"		37		What The World Needs Now Is Love
2004	"Flies On The Butter (You Can't Go Home Again)" (w/ Naomi Judd)		33		What The World Needs Now Is Love
2004	"I Want To Know What Love Is"^B			14	What The World Needs Now Is Love
2005	"Attitude"		40		Her Story: Scenes from a Lifetime
2006	"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"		54	3	A Classic Christmas

^APosition on Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.
^B"I Want To Know What Love Is" also reached #12 on Hot Dance Airplay.

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