Kelsea Ballerini Biography

Fast Facts

• Was awarded the ASCAP Country Music Vanguard Award in 2017
• Was the first woman to have a No․ 1 song on the Billboard Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts at the same time
• Was inspired to become a country artist after she heard Keith Urban's song "Stupid Boy․"
• Quote: "[On showing her emotions in her music] "Perfect doesn't exist, and I'm exhausting myself trying to be something that isn’t real․ And I know if I am feeling that, then ninety percent of the other girls that listen to my songs are feeling that too․""
• Quote: "You have to use your intuition and your heart, and do things your own way․"
• Country pop singer and songwriter who scored a hit song in 2014 with "Love Me Like You Mean It․"
• Wrote 200 songs for her second album