Kacey Musgraves is an American singer and songwritter. She has made headlines with winning some Grammy awards!
- Her full name is Kacey Lee Musgraves
- She was born on August 21, 1988
- She is an American singer and songwriter
- She has won six Grammy Awards
- Four Country Music Association Awards
- And three Academy of Country Music Awards
- Kacey Musgraves self-released three albums before appearing on the fifth season of the USA Network’s singing competition Nashville Star in 2007
- There she placed seventh
- In 2008, she recorded two singles for Triple Pop in Austin, Texas
- She later signed to Mercury Nashville in 2012
- And released her critically acclaimed debut album Same Trailer Different Park in 2013
- Winning the Grammy Award for Best Country Album
- The album’s lead single “Merry Go ‘Round” won her the Grammy Award for Best Country Song
- It also featured the platinum certified single “Follow Your Arrow”
- Which won her the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year
- In 2015, she released her second studio album Pageant Material
- Which also received critical acclaim
- And a Best Country Album Grammy nomination
- Kacey Musgraves also released a Christmas-themed album
- It was titled A Very Kacey Christmas in 2016
- Her fourth studio album Golden Hour was released in 2018
- It was released to widespread critical acclaim
- And won all four of its nominated Grammy Awards categories
- Including Album of the Year
- And Best Country Album
- The album’s first two singles were “Butterflies” and “Space Cowboy”
- The first one won Best Country Solo Performance
- And the second one Best Country Song
- Golden Hour also won the Academy of Country Music
- And the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year
- Making Musgraves only the 6th artist to win all three major Album of the Year (Grammy, CMA and ACM) awards for the same album
- As well as the 2nd artist to win the Grammy, CMA, ACM and all-genre Grammy Album of the Year
- Kacey Lee Musgraves was born August 21, 1988, in Golden, Texas
- Her parents were Craig and Karen Musgraves
- Craig is the owner of a small printing business, M-Prints Printing, Inc., in Carthage, Texas
- And Karen Musgraves is an artist
- Musgraves has stated that she was born six weeks prematurely
- And she weighed only 5 pounds
- Kacey Musgraves has one younger sister
- She is Kelly Christine Sutton
- And she is a photographer
- She began songwriting at the age of 8
- Then she wrote a song called “Notice Me” for her elementary school graduation
- She first learned to play music on the mandolin
- At age 12 started taking guitar lessons from a local musician named John DeFoore
- Which she later described as “one of the most important things that ever happened to me”
- Kacey Musgraves’ mother would take her to local music festivals to sing western swing music
- And her family funded her first self-released album
- She graduated from Mineola High School in 2006
- And moved to Austin, Texas at the age of 18
- In 2014, in an interview with ABC Radio, Musgraves said she had been in a relationship with her bandmate Misa Arriaga for several years after becoming friends first
- Kacey Musgraves eventually met Ruston Kelly at the Bluebird Café in Nashville
- In May 2016, they had a songwriting date
- And they began dating shortly after
- Musgraves stated that the song “Butterflies” from her album Golden Hour is about her courtship with Kelly
- On December 24, 2016, Musgraves became engaged to Kelly
- They got married on October 14, 2017 in Tennessee
- Kacey Musgraves is known for her progressive lyrics in the conservative country music genre
- Her music has tackled controversial topics
- Such as LGBT acceptance, safe sexual intercourse, recreational marijuana use, and questioning religious sentiment
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