Full Name
Carly Pearce
Speaker Bio
Fiercely rooted in the classics, the girl who left her Kentucky home and high school at 16 to take a job atDollywood has grown into a woman who embraces the genre’s forward progression. GRAMMY® Award-winning singer-songwriterCarlyPearcehas come a long way from the pain she felt writing her critically acclaimed and commercially lauded third studio album29. Looking ahead, she closes that pivotal life chapter with her first live album29: Written In Stone (Live From Music City), out now via Big MachineRecords. Pearce continues to resonate with her honest lyrics and timeless musicality, earning her fourthNo. 1 at Country radio with “What He Didn’t Do.” Lighting a fire with her debut albumEvery Little Thingandthe platinum-certified history-making title track, Carly’s 3x platinum-certified “I Hope You’re HappyNow" with Lee Brice won both the 2020 CMA AwardsMusical Event and 2021 ACM AwardsMusic Event,plus ACMSingle of the Year. She picked up her second consecutive ACMMusic Event of the Year in 2022with Ashley McBryde duet “Never Wanted To Be That Girl,” Carly’s third No. 1 and the third duet between two solo women to top Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. The song also took home the 2022 CMAMusicalEvent of the Yearand won aGRAMMY® Award forBest Country Duo/Group Performance, marking Pearce’s first and making history as the first female pairing to win in the category. The Grand Ole Opry and KentuckyMusic Hall of Fame member recently joined Blake Shelton’s BACK TO THE HONKYTONK TOUR and made her 100th performance at the Grand Ole Opry. Honored as one of CMT’s 2022 Artists of The Year, the2021 CMAFemale Vocalist of the Yearandreigning ACM AwardsFemale Artist of the Yearis clearly living out her childhood dream. Pearceis currently nominated for three ACM Awards: Female Artist Of The Year,Single Of The Year for “Never Wanted To Be That Girl,” and Visual Media Of The Year for “What He Didn’tDo.” For tour dates and more, visit CarlyPearce.com.