Behind the Artist – Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves is an American singer and songwriter. She has won six Grammy Awards (including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2019), six Country Music Association Awards, and three Academy of Country Music Awards. Musgraves self-released three solo albums and one more as Texas Two Bits, before appearing on the fifth season of the USA Network’s singing competition Nashville Star in 2007, where she placed seventh.

She later signed to Mercury Nashville in 2012 and released her critically acclaimed debut album Same Trailer Different Park in 2013, winning the Grammy Award for Best Country Album. The album’s lead single “Merry Go ‘Round” won her the Grammy Award for Best Country Song. It also featured the platinum certified single “Follow Your Arrow” which won her the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year. In 2015, she released her second studio album Pageant Material, which also received critical acclaim and a Best Country Album Grammy nomination. Musgraves also released a Christmas-themed album, A Very Kacey Christmas in 2016.

Her fourth studio album Golden Hour was released to widespread critical acclaim and won all four of its nominated Grammy Awards categories, including Album of the Year and Best Country Album. The album’s first two singles, “Butterflies” and “Space Cowboy”, won Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song, respectively. Golden Hour also won the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year, making Musgraves only the sixth artist to win all three major Album of the Year (Grammy, CMA and ACM) awards for the same album as well as the second artist to win the Grammy, CMA, ACM and all-genre Grammy Album of the Year.

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