Maren Morris is a country singer and songwriter that has made an impact on the music scene!
So le’ts find out some things about her life and career!
- Her full name is Maren Larae Morris
- She was born on April 10, 1990
- She is an American country music singer, songwriter
- And record producer
- She has released four studio albums
- Her 2015 extended play, Maren Morris, charted on two Billboard charts
- Her major label debut album, Hero, reached number five on the Billboard 200 chart
- And number one on the Top Country Albums chart
- Her debut single, “My Church”, peaked at number one on the Country Digital Songs chart in 2016
- And reached the top five on the US Hot Country Songs chart
- She won a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance
- Her third single, “I Could Use a Love Song”, was her first to reach number one on the Country Airplay Charts
- She provided vocals for “The Middle”
- A pop collaboration with Zedd and Grey
- It was eleased in January 2018
- It reached No. 5 in the United State
- And received three nominations at the 61st Grammy Awards
- Maren Morris was born in Arlington, Texas
- Her parents are Greg and Kellie Morris
- She has a younger sister, Karsen
- As a child, she spent most of her time at her parents’ hair salon
- At the age of 12, her father bought her a guitar
- And she fell in love with it
- Her music recording career started in 2005
- With her debut studio album, Walk On, released on June 14, 2005
- It was released by Mozzi Blozzi Music
- Her subsequent release, All That it Takes, was released on October 22, 2007, by Smith Entertainment
- She graduated from the University of North Texas in 2010
- Her third release, Live Wire, was released in 2011, by Mozzi Blozzi Music
- Her major label debut album Hero was released to critical acclaim in 2016
- Maren Morris spent several years in Nashville writing songs for other artists
- Including “Last Turn Home” on Tim McGraw’s 2014 album Sundown Heaven Town
- And “Second Wind”, which Kelly Clarkson sang on her 2015 album Piece by Piece
- Maren Morris initially self-released five songs as an eponymous extended play, Maren Morris
- It was released on Spotify in August 2015
- The songs gained 2.5 million streams on Spotify in a month
- With three songs appearing on Spotify’s US and Global “Viral 50” chart
- The success of Morris’ EP attracted the interest of major labels
- She was signed to Columbia Nashville in September 2015
- The label re-released the five-song EP, on November 6, 2015
- “My Church” was the lead single
- Following airplay on country radio, along with several in-studio appearances on satellite radio, this EP charted on two Billboard charts
- Reaching number 27 on the Country Albums chart
- And number one on the Top Heatseekers chart
- It sold 2,400 copies in its debut week
- “My Church” reached number five on the Hot Country Songs chart
- It was certified Gold by the RIAA
- With the success of “My Church”, Maren Morris released her major label studio album on June 3, 2016
- The week she started a tour with Keith Urban
- The album debuted and peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 chart
- And number one on the Top Country Albums chart
- Her debut single from the project, “My Church”, hit number one on the Country Digital Songs chart in 2016
- It reached the top five on the US Hot Country Songs chart
- Hero earned Maren Morris four Grammy Award nominations at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards
- The album was nominated for Best Country Album
- “My Church” won Best Country Solo Performance
- And it was nominated for Best Country Song
- Maren Morris was also nominated for the all-genre honor of Best New Artist
- But lost to Chance The Rapper
- She was honored at Billboard Women in Music 2016 with the Breakthrough Star Award
- She received the Breakthrough Artist Award at Music Biz 2017
- Maren Morris embarked on the Hero Tour in 2017, in support of her album
- She joined Sam Hunt for his 15 in a 30 Tour later that year
- A deluxe edition of Hero was released in March 2017
- Featuring the songs “Bummin’ Cigarettes,” “Space” and “Company You Keep.”
- In response to the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting, Maren Morris released Dear Hate
- A song she had written and recorded with Vince Gill
- With all proceeds from the track going to the Music City Cares Fund
- She provided vocals on the song “Craving You” with Thomas Rhett in 2017
- Maren Morris was also featured on Niall Horan’s song “Seeing Blind”, released in October 2017
- She later opened for Horan on his 2018 Flicker World Tour
- She collaborated with Zedd and Grey on “The Middle”
- It was released in January 2018
- That single, which combined elements of country, pop, and electronic dance music, reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100
- On October 5, 2018, Maren Morris appeared as a special guest during Taylor Swift’s Reputation Stadium Tour in Arlington, Texas
- She performed “The Middle” with Swift
- In January 2019 Maren Morris released the lead single “Girl” from her upcoming second major label studio album of the same name
- And simultaneously announced a worldwide concert, GIRL: The World Tour
- To support the album which is due March 8, 2019
- The tour is scheduled to start March 9, 2019 in Chicago
- And conclude August 23, 2019 in Canberra, Australia
- In March, it was announced that Maren Morris would be forming a supergroup with Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires called the Highwomen
- With the fourth slot being filled by a rotating line-up of guests
- Such as Sheryl Crow, Chely Wright, Margo Price and Courtney Marie Andrews
- A social media post by Shires’ husband Jason Isbell hinted that the group had already begun recording with producer Dave Cobb
- In December 2015, Maren Morris began dating fellow country singer Ryan Hurd
- Whom she had first met in a co- write in 2013
- They became engaged in July 2017
- The two were married on March 24, 2018
- They were married in Nashville, Tennessee
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