Nashville-based singer-songwriter who, in June, put out a new music video that was added to CMT Music’s rotation and got featured on their fan-voted 12 Pack Countdown. That same month she not only made her CMA Fest debut but opened for The Band Perry, adding to a growing list of high-profile support slots that includes Brad Paisley, Maddie & Tae, Lonestar, Clint Black, and more. She is working towards a new release and her original music has landed on the likes of Spotify’s New Music Nashville and Apple Music’s Country Risers. She has over 12 million career streams, almost 790 thousand TikTok followers, and she has a combined total of more than 3.4 million video views on her official YouTube channel.
“I'm from a really, really small town in southeast Kentucky called Pine Top in the Appalachian Mountains. A one-stop-light town, so, pretty small and there's something really special about a small town and just a built-in support system. I'm just really lucky. I've got the best family and people around me and I love being a Kentucky girl.”
“Fun fact, what I used to do was, I was an Elsa impersonator. So, I would go to little kids’ birthday parties as Elsa and sing ‘Let it Go.’ … (and) Hannah Montana. I put the wig on and everything.”
“I've been singing pretty much my whole life since I was four and any opportunity that I could get on a stage, I was going to do it, whether it was dance, musical theater, singing at festivals, singing the national anthem, just whatever opportunity I could get, I was going to do it. I started songwriting when I was 17 though and then I would travel back and forth from Kentucky to Nashville. I just knew after high school that Nashville was where I wanted to be.”
“I definitely think it's helped me a lot because … being comfortable on stage in general, I think dance helped me a lot with that for sure.”
“I went to Belmont (University). I was a commercial voice major, and … the move to Nashville was a bit of a shock for me, but I've always … loved the city life as well. I consider myself Hannah Montana in that way, it’s like the best of both worlds; I’m a country girl at heart, but I also thrive in the city as well. So, I just love Nashville. I'm going on my tenth year here and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.”
“In 2020 when COVID hit, live music wasn't a thing anymore. So, I just tried to do what I could do and what I could control, and that was social media. And that was around this time where a little app called TikTok was booming and I saw it work for other artists, so I was like, ‘You know what? I'm going to start posting on there’.”
“The video got like a total of four million views or something. But I mean, it got me to number four on the iTunes charts.”
“I definitely think the coolest would be singing Whiskey Lullaby with Brad Paisley. That was one of the coolest things I've ever done.”
“The way that I express myself and show my emotions is through my music and I'm a firm believer that the most vulnerable and honest that you can be, the better you're going to connect with people.”
“This career is very – what I describe to people, I say it's a roller coaster – it’s got a lot of ups and it's got a lot of downs and it's constant grinding. You just never stop. If you feel comfortable then you're not doing enough.”
“Kentucky In Me”
“Party Girl”