While Carly Pearce is one of the main leading ladies in Country music today, she is quick to credit many of her peers and the women who came before her for inspiration.
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From the women she’ll be alongside at Audacy’s 2nd annual Leading Ladies guitar pull (Gabby Barrett, Lainey Wilson, Lauren Alaina, Tenille Arts and Morgan Wade) to iconic females like Trisha Yearwood and Gretchen Wilson that paved the way, Pearce is in good company and she knows it!
“Everybody’s so different, but like all incredibly talented and beautiful,” Pearce told Audacy's Katie Neal of the women performing at Audacy’s Leading Ladies guitar pull on May 11 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL (find tickets here). “That’s going to be one that you don’t want to like, leave to go pee or something.”
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Pearce, who was recently named ACM Female Vocalist of the Year says she still finds herself in awe in the midst of a such a successful career, one she’s dreamt of since hearing artists like Dolly Parton, Trisha Yearwood and Gretchen Wilson while growing up.
"I feel like there hasn’t been another female that’s exploded onto the scene quite like [Gretchen Wilson] did,” Pearce praised of the “Redneck Woman” singer. “That’s another female I feel like doesn’t get talked a lot about as far as just being like unapologetically, ‘Here I am, Hear me roar!’”
She also had a lot of good to say about Trisha Yearwood and songs like “She’s in Love With The Boy.”
“Those story songs,” Carly gushed. “I feel like we need more of them! You were so invested in Katie and Tommy,” she laughed.
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Dolly Parton has been another strong influence for Pearce in the music world, but she also says non-artists like her mother and grandmother have helped her most along the way. Just after calling her mom a best friend, Pearce also spoke of her late grandmother who she says believed in her all the way.
“My grandmother, she passed away when I was 14, but the Pearce name was for my grandparents,” she explained. “It’s my mom’s maiden name and she always believed through and through that this was going to happen for me.”
Girl power seems to be a common theme in Carly’s life, so it’s no surprise she’s currently climbing the charts with an all-female duet featuring fellow Country artist Ashley McBryde. Carly hopes to see the song to the top as it is one of very few all-female collabs in the Country genre.
If anyone can make it happen, it’s Pearce and McBryde!
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