Kacey Musgraves trivia: 60 facts about the famous country singer!

Kacey Musgraves is an American singer and songwritter. She has made headlines with winning some Grammy awards!

1. Her full name is Kacey Lee Musgraves
2. She was born on August 21, 1988
3. She is an American singer and songwriter
4. She has won six Grammy Awards
5. Four Country Music Association Awards
6. And three Academy of Country Music Awards
7. Kacey Musgraves self-released three albums before appearing on the fifth season of the USA Network’s singing competition Nashville Star in 2007
8. There she placed seventh
9. In 2008, she recorded two singles for Triple Pop in Austin, Texas
10. She later signed to Mercury Nashville in 2012
11. And released her critically acclaimed debut album Same Trailer Different Park in 2013
12. Winning the Grammy Award for Best Country Album
13. The album’s lead single “Merry Go ‘Round” won her the Grammy Award for Best Country Song
14. It also featured the platinum certified single “Follow Your Arrow”
15. Which won her the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year
16. In 2015, she released her second studio album Pageant Material
17. Which also received critical acclaim
18. And a Best Country Album Grammy nomination
19. Kacey Musgraves also released a Christmas-themed album
20. It was titled A Very Kacey Christmas in 2016
21. Her fourth studio album Golden Hour was released in 2018
22. It was released to widespread critical acclaim
23. And won all four of its nominated Grammy Awards categories
24. Including Album of the Year
25. And Best Country Album
26. The album’s first two singles were “Butterflies” and “Space Cowboy”
27. The first one won Best Country Solo Performance
28. And the second one Best Country Song
29. Golden Hour also won the Academy of Country Music
30. And the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year
31. Making Musgraves only the 6th artist to win all three major Album of the Year (Grammy, CMA and ACM) awards for the same album
32. As well as the 2nd artist to win the Grammy, CMA, ACM and all-genre Grammy Album of the Year
33. Kacey Lee Musgraves was born August 21, 1988, in Golden, Texas
34. Her parents were Craig and Karen Musgraves
35. Craig is the owner of a small printing business, M-Prints Printing, Inc., in Carthage, Texas
36. And Karen Musgraves is an artist
37. Musgraves has stated that she was born six weeks prematurely
38. And she weighed only 5 pounds
39. Kacey Musgraves has one younger sister
40. She is Kelly Christine Sutton
41. And she is a photographer
42. She began songwriting at the age of 8
43. Then she wrote a song called “Notice Me” for her elementary school graduation
44. She first learned to play music on the mandolin
45. At age 12 started taking guitar lessons from a local musician named John DeFoore
46. Which she later described as “one of the most important things that ever happened to me”
47. Kacey Musgraves’ mother would take her to local music festivals to sing western swing music
48. And her family funded her first self-released album
49. She graduated from Mineola High School in 2006
50. And moved to Austin, Texas at the age of 18
51. 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
52. Kacey Musgraves eventually met Ruston Kelly at the Bluebird Café in Nashville
53. In May 2016, they had a songwriting date
54. And they began dating shortly after
55. Musgraves stated that the song “Butterflies” from her album Golden Hour is about her courtship with Kelly
56. On December 24, 2016, Musgraves became engaged to Kelly
57. They got married on October 14, 2017 in Tennessee
58. Kacey Musgraves is known for her progressive lyrics in the conservative country music genre
59. Her music has tackled controversial topics
60. Such as LGBT acceptance, safe sexual intercourse, recreational marijuana use, and questioning religious sentiment