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53 Facts About Kacey Musgraves

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Kacey Lee Musgraves was born on August 21,1988 and is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Kacey Musgraves began her career in the early 2000s, when she self-released three solo albums and recorded another album as a member of the duo Texas Two Bits.

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In 2007, Musgraves appeared on the fifth season of the USA Network singing competition Nashville Star, where she finished in seventh place.

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Kacey Musgraves released a Christmas-themed album, A Very Kacey Christmas.

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Kacey Musgraves has won eight Grammy Awards, seven Country Music Association Awards, and four Academy of Country Music Awards.

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Kacey Lee Musgraves was born August 21,1988, in Golden, Texas, to Karen, an artist, and Craig Musgraves, owner of a small printing business, M-Prints Printing, Inc.

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Kacey Musgraves said that she was born six weeks prematurely and weighed only five pounds.

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Kacey Musgraves has a younger sister, Kelly Christine Sutton, who is a photographer and at times has photographed some of Kacey's work including in the Cotswolds in South West England.

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Kacey Musgraves' mother took her to local music festivals to sing western swing music.

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Kacey Musgraves won yodeling national championships and was selected to sing the national anthem at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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Kacey Musgraves graduated from Mineola High School in Mineola, Texas northwest of Tyler in 2006 and moved to Austin at 18.

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In 2007, Kacey Musgraves competed on Season 5 of the singing competition reality TV series Nashville Star, where she placed seventh.

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Kacey Musgraves recorded three self-produced albums in 2002,2003, and 2007.

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Kacey Musgraves collaborated with the Josh Abbott Band in 2010 on the song "Oh, Tonight".

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Kacey Musgraves joined Lady A on the European leg of their Own the Night Tour in 2012.

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Kacey Musgraves co-wrote Miranda Lambert's 2013 single "Mama's Broken Heart" and sang harmony on the song.

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Kacey Musgraves was nominated for four awards at the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in 2012, including Female Vocalist of the Year.

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Kacey Musgraves was nominated for four Grammy Awards at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, tying Taylor Swift and Lorde for the most nominations received by a woman that year.

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Kacey Musgraves joined Katy Perry on the North American leg of her Prismatic World Tour as well as Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss on select dates during their tour.

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Kacey Musgraves provided backing vocals for "Bourbon in Kentucky", the lead single on Dierks Bentley's 2013 album Riser.

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Kacey Musgraves' single "Follow Your Arrow" was certified gold, and "Merry Go Round" was certified platinum.

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Kacey Musgraves announced in late August 2014 that she would perform a 10-show headlining tour, titled Same Tour Different Trailer, which started on September 25 and ended on October 19.

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Kacey Musgraves was featured on a remix of Miguel's single "Waves", released on February 26,2016.

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In support of the album, Kacey Musgraves embarked on a Christmas-themed tour, complete with a strings section, an accordion, a bass, a saxophone, a clarinet, and backup singers.

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In 2017, Kacey Musgraves provided backing vocals on "All the Best", a John Prine cover, for Zac Brown Band's album Welcome Home.

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Also in 2017, Kacey Musgraves was featured on Outlaw: Celebrating the Music of Waylon Jennings.

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Kacey Musgraves appeared on the June 21,2017, episode of Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry to receive a psychic reading and connect with her grandmother, Barbara Taylor, to learn more details about her death in a house fire.

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Kacey Musgraves has said that her song "This Town", from the album Pageant Material, is about her grandmother, and that her grandmother sings during the opening of the song.

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In October 2017, Kacey Musgraves posted a picture of herself on Twitter indicating she was in the studio writing new songs for her upcoming third studio album.

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On December 12,2017, Kacey Musgraves announced the title of her third studio album Golden Hour through Entertainment Weekly.

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In March, Kacey Musgraves headlined the 2018 C2C: Country to Country festival in London after playing the festival in 2016.

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Kacey Musgraves premiered "High Horse", the third song from the album, on March 22,2018, on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 Apple Radio show.

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On May 12,2018, Kacey Musgraves was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, performing "High Horse" and "Slow Burn".

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In September, Kacey Musgraves appeared on a rerecorded version of "There's No Gettin' Over Me" with Ronnie Milsap for his 2019 duet album.

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In October 2018, Kacey Musgraves embarked on the "Oh, What a World Tour" in support of Golden Hour.

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In October 2019, Kacey Musgraves revealed that she would cover the song "All Is Found" for Frozen II.

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On November 4,2019, Musgraves announced The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show, a holiday special premiering through Amazon Amazon Prime Video on November 29.

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On May 29,2020, Kacey Musgraves was featured on The Flaming Lips single "Flowers of Neptune 6" and provided vocals on two additional tracks on their album American Head, which was released on September 11,2020.

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On December 10,2020, Troye Sivan released a reworked version of his song "Easy" which features Kacey Musgraves and was produced by Mark Ronson.

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Kacey Musgraves voiced Earwig's mother in the English dub of the Studio Ghibli film, Earwig and the Witch.

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Kacey Musgraves began teasing her next album by releasing snippets of new music on her 33rd birthday.

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Kacey Musgraves collaborated with American country star Zach Bryan on the single "I Remember Everything" from his self-titled fourth studio album.

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On October 6,2023 Kacey Musgraves collaborated with breakout artist Noah Kahan on a re-released version of the single "She Calls Me Back" from Kahan's album Stick Season.

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In 2023, Kacey Musgraves executive produced the country music competition show My Kind of Country with Reese Witherspoon.

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In February 2024, Kacey Musgraves announced her sixth studio album, Deeper Well, which was released on March 15,2024.

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Kacey Musgraves was a guest and interviewed for two hours on March 18,2024, on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show; she performed three songs live with her band at Sirius' Nashville studio.

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Kacey Musgraves listed albums by Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry, Marty Robbins, Charley Pride, Roger Miller, and Jim Croce as influences on her sophomore album and an interview of hers with Rolling Stone Country cited Ray Price, Julie Miller, and Loretta Lynn as being other influences.

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Noncountry artists whom Kacey Musgraves has mentioned as influences include Cher, Selena, Ryan Adams, Cake, Neil Young, Weezer, Imogen Heap, Bee Gees, Sade, and Electric Light Orchestra.

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In 2014, in an interview with ABC Radio, Kacey Musgraves said she had been in a relationship with her bandmate Misa Arriaga for several years after first becoming friends and working together.

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Kacey Musgraves met Ruston Kelly in March 2016 at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville.

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Kacey Musgraves said that the song "Butterflies" from her album Golden Hour is about her courtship with Kelly; many other songs from the album were inspired by Kelly.

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From 2021 to 2023, Kacey Musgraves was in a relationship with Cole Schafer, a poet.

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At the Grammy Awards Kacey Musgraves has received eight awards from seventeen nominations.