Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who has won two GRAMMY Awards. Last year she released three singles and a full-length album. Based in Nashville, she has written songs for, recorded with, and toured with a range of household names in country music. She is signed to Pump House Records, and she has had seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. The videos on her official YouTube channel have gotten a combined total of over 7.2 million views, and she has approximately 22 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, where her top five songs alone have a combined total of over four million streams. She will be performing in August at the 2nd Las Vegas Songwriters Festival.
“Life isn't, it's not always easy. As a matter of fact, I find that the older I get and the more life experience I get, I'm like dang, this whole life thing is actually kind of hard.”
“I've noticed that when I feel like I need to give up or something's too big and I just can't endure it … giving up is not an option.”
“We feel like most of our songs fall in the big black hole of songs, because in Nashville every day, there's hundreds and hundreds of songs being written ... Well, there's no possible way that all of those could be cut and put out and for everyone to hear.”
“You write it, you love it, you do the demo and then you move on. And eventually there'll be an opportunity.”
“I was just hurting so bad. And it was really a time that I had to go within myself and just go, okay, you either believe what you say or you don't. So, this is the time to prove to yourself that all these songs you're writing, that, yeah, you can pick yourself up out of the ashes and you can do this, right? It's (her song) ‘Strong.’ It's what happens when you're out of everything else. So do you believe what you say or don't you believe it?”
“I grew up in… Salyersville, Kentucky… it's so rich with country music and bluegrass music heritage up there that you don't have a choice but to be musical.”
“When all my friends were playing Barbie, I was learning how to play guitar.”
“Back then Nashville was different than it is now. Now it's a completely metropolitan city, mini version of like a big metropolitan city. Back then it was more of just a big town. And everybody kind of knew everybody and once you would link to one person in the business, then it was like a little spider web.”
“I basically had a record deal sealed before I even graduated high school.”
“That's what the music business is. It's up and down and up and down and up and down. And you have to have the thickest skin in the world to survive this business. It's not easy, but the love of music is what keeps us all here and keeps us all going.”
“Church and my faith in the Lord has always been such a big part of my life and honestly, something that if I did not have it, I don't know if I would be here right now.”
“When you have hope you have everything. If you don't have hope, it's hard to get through. So, my faith gives me hope and hope keeps me hanging on.”
“(Steven Tyler) is a very generous person with all that he has to give. When he talks to you he looks straight into your eyes, and you feel like you are the only person that exists. The only person that's important to him at that moment and he's like that with everyone. It’s not a put on, it's not for show. He's just genuinely like that.”
“Strong”
“I’m Not Who You Think I Am”