Carly Pearce

And I took a job as a backup singer for Lucy Hale.

She was singing country music for a little bit.

And even that like introduced me to a whole slew of fans back when like Instagram was starting and all these different little connecting moments.

I, the biggest like moment that I remember from that time, she had a music video on the Grand Ole Opry stage.

And I always told myself I would never step on the Opry stage, never in the circle until it was my moment.

And we had to perform on the Opry stage and I would not step in the circle and I'm just standing there.

And it was almost like the, um, that movie, was it like, I don't know, something 50 feet from stardom or whatever that was where it's like, you're, you're on the stage, but you're so far from the circle.

Like, that's how I felt.

but I did it.

And I was just like, whatever keeps me making music.

And for a moment, I remember thinking like, maybe I'm supposed to be a backup singer.

Like some of my favorite voices are backup singers.

And I'm like, maybe that's what I'm supposed to do.

Um, and I met a producer named Busby and he changed my life, uh, along with a, or a publisher in town that I still work with, Daniel Lee, um,

We wrote every little thing and made like a five song EP, took it around to labels.

No one cared.

Took it to managers.

No one cared.

I mean, when I tell you like not one person cared and it's truly like part of my mission for young artists and just young people with a dream is to like understand that like,

No one thought that that song was a hit.