Jennifer Nettles is a Grammy winner and the lead singer of country music duo Sugarland. She was born on September 12, 1974 in Douglas, Georgia, USA.

Nettles began performing in Georgia in her childhood at school assemblies, Georgia 4-H's Clovers & Co., her Southern Baptist church, and regional theater.

n 1999, she formed the Jennifer Nettles Band, with which she produced three studio and two live albums. She and her band were invited to perform at Lilith Fair in 1999 and received the 2000 "Independent Musician of the Year" award from Musician's Atlas.

Sugarland was nominated for a Grammy award in the Best New Artist category. They did not win the award, but Nettles and Bush performed on the nationally televised awards show in February 2006, and Nettles presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Merle Haggard and presented the award for Best Country Group.

Nettles also is seeing success outside of Sugarland. A duet performance with rock band Bon Jovi, "Who Says You Can't Go Home?” has reached No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The video for the song won a CMT Music Award in 2006 for "Collaborative Video Of The Year". In February of 2007, Nettles and Bon Jovi won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Collaboration. In 2006, Kristen Hall left the group and Nettles and Bush continued on as a duo releasing "Enjoy the Ride" in November of 2006.