Lauren Alaina Kristine Arnold (née Suddeth; born November 8, 1994) is an American singer and songwriter from Rossville, Georgia.

Alaina later achieved her first number one on the Country Airplay chart with the album's title track.

Her second number one came later that year when she simultaneously topped five Billboard charts with her friend and former classmate Kane Brown on their duet "What Ifs".

In addition to this song with Brown, Alaina became an in-demand duet vocalist throughout the next few years, appearing on number one collaborations with Hardy, Devin Dawson, and Dustin Lynch.

Alaina was a contestant on the twenty-eighth season of Dancing with the Stars and placed fourth with her partner Gleb Savchenko.

[1] At age 8, Alaina entered the talent competition of the Southern Stars Pageant and won.

The next year she was selected to perform on the Kids talent stage at Chattanooga's Riverbend Festival.

Alaina sang with the Georgia Country Gospel Music Association's children's group.

In 2009, Alaina was the first winner of the WinniSTAR youth talent contest at Lake Winnepesaukah amusement park.

Alaina was inspired to sing by her cousin, Holly Witherow, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Tour 2011, which began in West Valley City, Utah on July 6, 2011 and ended in Manila, Philippines on September 21, 2011.

The lead single "Georgia Peaches" reached number 28 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

She performed her single "Georgia Peaches" on Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

[23][24][25] She sang the National Anthem at the Thanksgiving Day game between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers.

[27][28] Alaina served as an opening act for Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party Tour from January 20, 2012 to May 19, 2012.

[30] On March 8, 2012, Alaina performed "Georgia Peaches" on the eleventh season of American Idol.

[32][33] On June 16, 2012, Alaina headlined the final show of Riverbend, a music festival in her hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

[36] "Eighteen Inches" hit number 37 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs list.

The track serves as the theme song for the SeaWorld attraction Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin.

[48] Alaina released the single "Road Less Traveled", which she co-wrote with Meghan Trainor and Jesse Frasure, on July 11, 2016.

[51] In April 2017, "Road Less Traveled" reached number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.

[61] Throughout June and July 2017, Alaina appeared on Luke Bryan's Huntin', Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day Tour for a number of selected dates.

[62] In May 2017, Alaina contributed guest vocals to the song "Are You Happy Now" from Rascal Flatts' tenth studio album, Back to Us.

Throughout 2018 and 2019, Alaina toured with artists such as Alan Jackson, Cole Swindell, Jason Aldean, and Blake Shelton.

[70] Alaina released her third studio album, Sitting Pretty on Top of the World, on September 3, 2021.

[74] In September and October 2016, Alaina filmed her very first movie The Road Less Traveled, which took place in Knoxville, Tennessee.

[93] The couple married on February 4, 2024,[94] and announced that they were expecting on January 22nd, 2025 after revealing her pregnancy in her new music video for "Those Kind Of Women".