Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Lee Musgraves (born August 21, 1988) is an American country singer.

Kacey Lee Musgraves was born August 21, 1988 in Golden, Texas, to Karen (née Abrams) and Craig Musgraves.

Craig owns a small printing business, M-Prints Printing, Inc., in Mineola, Texas, and Karen Musgraves is an artist.

Musgraves has stated that she was born six weeks prematurely and weighed only five pounds.

Musgraves has one younger sister, Kelly Christine Sutton (née Musgraves), who is a photographer.

Musgraves began to write songs at age eight; her first was a song for her elementary-school graduation, "Notice Me."

She first learned to play music on the mandolin, then 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."

She also learned harmonica.

Musgraves' mother took her to local music festivals to sing western swing music.

She began her music career in the early 2000s, when she self-released three solo albums and recorded another album as a member of the duo Texas Two Bits.

She and co-student Alina Tatum formed country-music duo Texas Two Bits, toured through Texas, and released an independent album in 2000, and earned an invitation to perform at President George W. Bush's "Black Tie and Boots Inaugural Ball".

Musgraves also won yodeling national championships and was selected to sing the national anthem at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

At age 14, her family funded her first solo, self-released album.

Musgraves recorded three self-produced albums in 2002, 2003, and 2007.

She graduated from Mineola High School in 2006 and moved to Austin, Texas at 18.

In 2007, she appeared on the fifth season of the USA Network singing competition Nashville Star, where she finished in seventh place.

In 2007, Musgraves competed on Season 5 of the singing competition reality TV series Nashville Star, where she placed seventh.

To sustain herself she took various jobs, including performing as Hannah Montana for children's birthday parties.

While living in Austin in 2008, she recorded two songs for independent record label Triple Pop.

She collaborated with the Josh Abbott Band in 2010 on the song "Oh, Tonight".

In 2012, she signed with Mercury Nashville and released the hit single "Merry Go 'Round".

Musgraves' two acoustic recordings for Triple Pop (covers of OneRepublic's "Apologize" and Miley Cyrus' "See You Again") are available on a digital EP released in 2012.

Musgraves joined Lady A on the European leg of their Own the Night Tour in 2012.

In 2012, she signed with Mercury Nashville and released her solo debut single "Merry Go 'Round".

"Undermine", a song co-written by Musgraves and Trent Dabbs, was featured in one of the first episodes in the first season of the television series Nashville on October 17, 2012.

Her major-label debut album Same Trailer Different Park (2013), won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.

The song is included on her major-label debut album Same Trailer Different Park, produced and co-written by Musgraves, Shane McAnally and Luke Laird and released on March 19, 2013.

The album debuted at number 2, selling 42,000 copies.

It produced additional hit singles in "Blowin' Smoke" and "Follow Your Arrow".

Rolling Stone magazine listed "Follow Your Arrow" at number 39 of its list of 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time, and said that Musgraves was "one of the loudest symbols of young country musicians embracing progressive values."

Musgraves co-wrote Miranda Lambert's 2013 single "Mama's Broken Heart" and sang harmony on the song.

"Apologize" (Acoustic Version) charted in the Billboard Hot Singles Chart at No. 23 on February 15, 2014, and racked up over 31,000,000 streams on Spotify.

Her second album, Pageant Material (2015), debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart and yielded the critically and commercially successful singles "Biscuits" and "Dime Store Cowgirl".

Musgraves also released a Christmas-themed album, A Very Kacey Christmas, in 2016.

Her fourth studio album Golden Hour (2018) was released to widespread critical acclaim and won all four of its nominated Grammy Award categories, including Album of the Year and Best Country Album.

The album's first two singles, "Space Cowboy" and "Butterflies", won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance, respectively.

Musgraves' fifth studio album, Star-Crossed (2021), became her fourth top-ten album on the Billboard 200.

In 2023, she was featured on the single "I Remember Everything" by Zach Bryan, which debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and won a Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance.

Throughout her career, Musgraves has won seven Grammy Awards, seven Country Music Association Awards, and three Academy of Country Music Awards.

To commemorate the 10-year anniversary on March 30, 2018, Triple Pop released the "Acoustic Remixed" digital EP, which featured newly remixed and remastered versions of the same recordings.