Claire Stephens
speaker
6,891 appearances
39 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard today
Claire Stephens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 39 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 11.
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I can wear whatever I want.
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Guess what?
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You still have to take me seriously.
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There isn't a sort of binary of you can choose to care about how you look and you can be serious.
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And that's because she's not ashamed of where she came from.
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It was a poor part of the US, possibly among the poorest.
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She made sure she gave back financially to that community, not least because she opened Dollywood there, which is
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big tourist attraction these days.
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But she wasn't ashamed of where she came from.
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And at the same time, she refused to think that she had somehow become better than that.
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She stayed very humble.
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So two different presidents, Trump and Joe Biden, both of them tried to give her the highest honor you can get in the US called the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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And she declined both of them.
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was not a time when any artists were aware of their rights, let alone a young woman artist.
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And that's interesting because there's so much gatekeeping around country music
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is traditionally
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commercially at least been the province of white people but Lil Nas X when he first came came onto the scene and was recording music he got a lot of pushback because he was a black gay man in the country music scene
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was a huge early champion of his work.
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It's interesting when you think about how singular she is.
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