Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves is an American singer-songwriter working in country and folk music, born in Mineola and educated at Mineola High School.
She has built a career as a musician, guitarist, mandolinist, and composer. Her work has earned her a substantial collection of Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, the Grammy Award for Best Country Song, the Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance, the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, and the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. She also received the Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year.
In addition to her music industry honors, Musgraves received the GLAAD Vanguard Award. Her work as a performer and composer draws on both country and folk music, and her instrumental roles as a guitarist and mandolinist place her actively within those genres.
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I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It’s also honest, and it also doesn’t hurt if it’s fun to sing along to.
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven’t in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
If I’m not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw ’em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we’ll have a unique song by the end of it.
I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That’s my bucket-list.
Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop – nobody cares!
I’d rather be more of the hippie country chick – as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, ‘We’re all screw-ups. We’re all in this kind of together. We’re all just figuring this out.’