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How Grammy-Nominated Brandy Clark Became Nashville s Finest Songwriter
Your Life Is a Record, is nominated for Best Country Album. March 09 2021 12:42 PM EST
Brandy Clark, one of the finest singer-songwriters in country music, thought her career would only take place behind the scenes. I definitely had it in my head that being gay and being in country music .. those two things could not coexist, she says. That s one of the times I ve been really happy to be wrong.
Clark knew plenty of other gay songwriters, like her frequent collaborator, Shane McAnally, but the number of out gay singers that ve broken through in country music are comparatively rare it was only in February of this year that T.J. Osborne of the Brothers Osborne came out and became the first out gay artist signed at a major country label. (Similar to Clark, Brandi Carlile, Chely Wright, Orville Peck, and Lil Nas X are not on specifically country music labels.)