Last week, Kelsea Ballerini was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, and while Carly Pearce is undoubtedly thrilled for her good friend, she also admits that that's a career goal for her, too.
"I look at my heroes as Dolly [Parton], Reba [McEntire], Faith [Hill], Trisha [Yearwood], all of them being members of the Opry, and all of them being key parts of our community," she gushes in a statement from her label. "And to me, the highest honor you can have within our community and within our genre is to be asked to be a member.
"And that is really hard for me to comprehend and really hard for me to even think is a possibility. And to even think that I've played the Opry and that they've allowed me to play over 50 times and that I do feel like I'm one of the little girls of the Opry in a way is really amazing. I hope that fifty years down the road I'm one of the faces of the Opry.
"I want to be on one of those buses the way Carrie [Underwood] is or Dolly is where it says Grand Ole Opry and you associate them with it. That's how I want to be, and that's how I want the Opry to be attached to me."
