Throughout the month of March, RADIO.COM will be celebrating the Leading Ladies of Country music with special interviews and performances from some of the biggest female names in the genre -- all culminating with a virtual end-of-month concert event.
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In honor of Women’s History Month, we're celebrating the power of Women in Country by honoring iconic heritage female artists, showcasing the genre's rising stars, and spotlighting today’s hit female artists. Today RADIO.COM welcomes singer and songwriter Reyna Roberts.
After giving us a special rendition of her track "67 (Winchester)," singer, songwriter, and pianist Reyna Roberts helped us continue our celebration of the female side of Country by telling Rob + Holly about one of the "leading ladies" in her musical upbringing.
"That's so hard when you grow up listening to so many," says Reyna. "I feel like the woman who's shaped my voice the most is probably Gretchen Wilson. Because I remember being like five years old listening to her songs, her whole album. My mom would play her every day."
Reyna remembered performing Gretchen's song "Here For the Party" during a talent show while in elementary school and people thinking, "well, that's different!" A bada** singer just like Reyna, we can see the influence clearly. "She is who she is, and I love it," Reyna says.
Reyna also spoke of her journey in the industry as an artist with no previous connections to the songwriters and power players of a genre she knew she wanted to break into. "For me, I researched my favorite artists, and my favorite songs by those artists. I would contact their writers and producers, and just send off emails even though I didn't know them, because that's the only way you can make connections and try to move forward."
"People don't always come to you," she says, "you have to go after them. You have to go after different paths. So to do that, you have to just do it! You either get 'yes' or you get 'no.' If you get 'no,' you go somewhere else." After putting in all of that hard work, Reyna's first response was from none other than Beyoncé's team which had her gleaming after hearing from them.
Reyna's first hit was 2020's "Stompin' Grounds" -- "Oh man, I remember when I heard that on the radio," she explained. "You want something so bad and you work hard to get it. I would pray everyday, so when that day finally came, I may or may not have cried. I don't know."
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