Angaleena Presleyis a mom again!
The Pistol Annies singer gave birth toher second childand first with husband Jordan Powell — a daughter named Phoenix Joeleena Jean Powell — at 7:49 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22, Presley confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
And her arrival wasn’t without a few hurdles. As Presley explains to PEOPLE, “Last night, when we were admitted to the hospital before delivery, Phoenix’s heart rate got up really high and she was kicking the crap out of me.”
It was nothing a little music couldn’t fix, though. “To try and calm her down, Jordan played the Kentucky/Texas combo of aLoretta [Lynn]andWillie [Nelson]duet up against my belly,” the singer says. “Within 15 seconds, her heart rate dropped to normal and she relaxed. I guess she knew already where her roots were … nothing like a piece of home to heal a heart.”
Courtesy Angaleena Presley; Inset: Getty
Powell and Presley, 42, tied the knot in 2012. She also has a 12-year-old son named Jed from a previous relationship.
Angaleena Presley’s daughter Phoenix and son Jed.Courtesy Angaleena Presley
“Joeleena is a combination of my friend Tony Joe White, who passed away a few months ago, and ‘Leena,’which is a family name fromAngaleena’s side,” he explains. “Jean is my grandmother’s name. She’s 92 and helped raise me.”
“All three times, nothing we tried seemed to work until I came up and playedTony Joe’s ‘Polk Salad Annie’and she would start kicking and dancing and rocking out. Every time,” he says. “He was either looking down on us or his groove was that infectious. Maybe both.”
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“As an outspoken, female artist, I feel like this is just one more thing that I’m meant to take on in this life. I’m ready torock being an older mom,” Presley added at the time.
Courtesy Angaleena Presley
“We both guessed boy. I had a gut feelingthat it was a girl butremained in denial until the moment it was confirmed,” she told PEOPLE exclusively. “We had a whole list of boy names but hadn’t really even scratched the surface on girl names.”
Angaleena will perform with her band as part of an87th birthday tribute concertin honor of Lynn this April. Pistol Annies’ newest album,Interstate Gospel, is available now onamazon.com.
source: people.com
